Team SoPo!

Greetings from Maine. I hope everything is well in the merry land of oz...oh wait wrong place. I meant CA.

Well I've been here for 3 days now and it's been raining, windy, cold, windy, cold...and cold. Well I guess I can't complain too much, it's only really cold because of the wind. Lots of wind. Other then that I can't be mad since I'm in doors most days and I've made friends with a few people.

My first day for the campaign was yesterday where I ended up getting lost in the rain and had to call the lady, Ariel, to come get me. I was so embarrassed, but I made it to the office in one piece, even if I was a little wet and my uggs looked out of place. Everyone was wearing regular shoes and jackets, while I was in a thermal, t-shirt, 2 jackets, gloves, and uggs. I was embarrassed by that too. Anyway, there were 2 other people, Julie and Molly, who were new too. We went to an orientation about the campaign and Maine, then we got to work.

For about an 1 1/2 we did data entry, which was easy and we got alot done. They let us go to lunch, which was an adventure. Molly and I were trying to find a place to eat on the map they gave us, but we ended up at some other place that had coffee and lunch. Lunch wasn't good. I got a lamb and rice plate, yet they put ginger in the rice (gross) and curry(?) powder on the lamb and rice. I didn't eat much, so I was really hungry by dinner time.

After Lunch we met with our team leader, Matt, to talk about what we'd be doing with him. He's doing satellite phone banks. This means that you and friends/family can help us call Maine voters from home. We've been in contact with a few organizations and colleges to help our. Yale and Harvard have a competition going to see how many people they can get to help out.

I was grabbed from Matt last night to help out with a "dorm storm". We went to one of the colleges in Portland to get people to sign up to help us out with phone banking in Portland. We got held up in the beginning by an RA who was on our side, but she had word from the "higher ups" that we weren't allowed to go in the dorm hall. Make a long story short, we ended up getting into the dorm and signing up 14 people to help out. I found out after we did the "dorm storm" that it was the first time they had done it, so we talked about what to do next time and how to make it better. I had fun...and mom I drove with a leader of the campus campaign, so no worries that I was randomly in cars with people...We saw a sign on the way back that said "So Portland" which really means South Portland, but I could just see some valley girl in CA going "That's SO Portland."

After we closed the office with a night meeting (they have them every night) about 15 of us went to J's Oyster bar. They let us go there and have lobster. I didn't have any since I didn't want to waste $24 on some lobster. I had a blast and got to sit next to one of the head guys, Dan. He reminded me of Dr. Draper, so that was nice to get to talk to him.

Today has been uneventful. I'm just sitting here waiting to do something. Matt has left to do...well I don't know, but he went to do something and they stole me earlier this morning to help Evan, who has the same dog shoes (the slip on ones) that I do! According to him we're the coolest people here.