well, i'm here in ruidoso new mexico finally! my last project round in americorps nccc. i can't believe my ten months are almost over. it truly flew by.
ruidoso is SO small. smaller than hartsville because most people live in the mountains. the city is so small and all the stores close by 8 except walmart. it's beautiful up here though. we're higher here than we were in denver, co. it's SO sunny and i'm already sun burned:( the work is super hard but rewarding seeing the trails we've made so far in just two days. it's hot up here but the wind is always blowing so it always feels pretty good. at night the stars are AMAZING. i tried to take a picture but it just didn't work out. we live at fort stanton which is a super old fort from the mid 1800's and it's on private land in the mountains with our only neighbors being the local police who live there for cheap. we never lock doors and always leave windows open. it's very freeing and open. the fort is fascinating to me and i've loved exploring it. they used it to chase indians away, then to protect the towns around it, then it was taken over by the south during the civil war, then it became a camp for captured germans during the world wars, then it became a hospital for tuberculosis patients, then it became a women's prison and then a youth prison. all that history and i'm loving it! i sometimes get one bar of service but usually it's temperamental. internet is out of the question! we're about thirty minutes from town and so luckily we can drive in on the weekends, i'm currently at the library. let's seeeeeeee i'm not sure what else to say at the moment. my mind is kind of fried because i'm so tired lol i'll update again soon!
xoxo,
B
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