Well, I got my email from a woman name Diedre at the University of Limerick congratulating me on my acceptance into Kilmurry Village. I will be living in an on campus apartment with seven other roommates. I think it is co-ed also, joy (sarcasm).
Last night I had the opportunity to help a woman at Arco Arena run a basketball tournament for the suite holders and partners of the Sacramento Kings. When I arrived she was a total stress-case because none of her interns were on time. That helped my case because she threw me into work right away. I was checking in the players/partners and spectators of the tournament. I was collecting wavers, escorting them to the main court, explaining the schedule of the tournament and apologizing for the change in scheduling because Kings head coach Paul Westphal decided to call an immediate practice at the same time the tournament was scheduled. Once the team left the practice arena, I was in charge of escorting everyone to their practice facility, aka. their "sanctuary". That place was amazinggg! We had to check every single person's shoes prior to entering to ensure that there were no rocks, gum or anything in the soles. We literally had to sit on the floor and scrape icky stuff out of shoes for 40 minutes. After all that fun...
I was bouncing around in there doing odd jobs. I was collecting the scores from each of the 4 games being played every 15 minutes, passing out extra basketballs to each of the courts to shoot around with as a quick warm-up, and then collecting them to put them back into the team room. I must have looked pretty serious because I was asked to "keep guard" at the front of the team room/training/weight room/locker room area. I was posted up there for majority of the night. I got a sneak peak into the locker room (WOW), weight room and training facilities while I was there. I was even allowed to snag a water from their HUGE stainless steel refrigerator, the entire freezer was filled with ego waffles, who would have guessed that? Tyreke Evans and Samuel Dalembert walked around with Truck Robinson and other assistant coaches. Samuel hugged me and told me good job on keeping guard of their "space". I laughed when I realized my head was at his hip bone when we hugged. I ended up leaving around 10:45pm after the team representing AT&T beat Intel for the title. The woman I went to help was so thankful that I showed up when I did that she offered me suite tickets for tonight's game against the Nuggets. She also took my resume and is trying to get me a summer internship with the RiverCats. (She interned with them a few years ago and then landed a year long internship with the San Francisco Giants last year-good year to work with them I'd say). So cross your fingers for me for that!
I am pretty excited for the next week I will be spending at home. After tonight's game I am pretty busy until I leave.
Saturday I am helping my dad as Tournament Director at a volleyball tournament, then heading to a crab feed with Mom, Scott and my best friend Shasta. Sunday morning I am attending a "DROID" (Thank you Dad and Donna for this awesome phone!) workshop to learn more about what this phone can do, then meeting my Dad, Grandpa, Stepmom and Debbie for brunch. Monday I am going in for an MRI, the doctor is thinking I could have pituitary tumors, and wants to check it out. (He isn't too worried, he suggested waiting to have the MRI after Ireland, but mom said NO WAY at the mention of it). Tuesday and Wednesday I will probably be packing and getting last minute goodbyes in before I take off Thursday from SanFran.
I cannot wait. I know this looks like I wrote a book, but I swear it is a blog. I will try not to write as much in my following entries!
-Tay
Good lookin blog Taylor. I like all of it.
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