In Limbo On Standby

My team was scheduled to leave at 10 o'clock a.m. after induction Thursday morning. Instead Joey called a meeting in the 3rd floor lounge. By this point we know exactly what he was going to tell us, but we waited to hear it anyway.

The night before induction we had a community meeting with all of the staff and Corps Members. They congratulated us on completing CTI (Corps Training Institute), gave a few announcements and a couple speeches. Then they dropped a bomb. They told us that the Pacific Region would be sending 70 Corps Members to the east coast. They couldn't tell us much. They had no idea what members would be doing, or how they would get us there, or how long we would stay. All they knew was that of more than 600 AmeriCorps members already in New York, 160 are about to graduate from the program and go home, leaving a volunteer gap that needs to be filled. The Pacific and Southwest Regions are in the right position to fill that gap, so each are calling off projects to deploy members east instead. And of course they would be calling off low priority projects first.

So when Joey called a team meeting to tell us we weren't going to be leaving for Oregon that morning, no one was very surprised.

My team is currently on standby until Tuesday. By that time, if they haven't figured out transportation to New York, we will go to Oregon and complete our original project. But what they want to do is put us and six other teams on planes and send us to the east coast, where we will stay on a huge boat in the NYC harbor and serve the city as best we can.
I have already said how much I want to go east, so I won't repeat it. This almost feels like a dream though, and I keep expecting to wake up from it. All of the other teams have left on spike, leaving us here in a strange ethereal limbo. The bags we packed for Oregon are now spread all over our rooms, our fridge is an eclectic assortment of food, and our days are unscheduled and purposeless.
All I want is to know what's going to happen next.