It's Complicated

So yesterday was the first day of my internship! Ahh!! Talk about stressful. The day started out just rough. I was supposed to get rid of my shift at work and I couldn't. Then there wasn't a guarantee that I would be out of work before I needed to be at the Lynx game. Oh yah, in case I didn't mention this, I am an intern for Group Events for the Minnesota Timberwolves/Lynx. Well as luck would have it, Buffalo Wild Wings was super slow so I was able to leave at almost 1pm. Phew. That made it so much easier. I went and bought some new pants and I was ready to go!

Basically I intern with Eric (Alissa, friend from work, that's her boyfriend) and Joanna (she also works in group events) and three boy interns. Woo! That's just what happens when you work in the sport world. So I'm okay with it. They are all pretty nice, but I really don't know for sure. The first day is always SO awkward. You stand in silence, trying to make small talk with complete strangers. You listen to your boss and hope you are doing everything right. You try to remember what closet is on what floor in case they ask you to go to it and grab something. You listen for the directions that may or may not come as to how to line people up for a high-five tunnel. Besides all that awkwardness, first day wasn't bad!

The perks of the job? Well after we do some pre-game stuff (depending on if we have an event lined up) we basically walk around, watch the game until 5 minutes to half time, then we line some people up for the high-five tunnel, and once that is over, we are free until the end of the game. We're allowed to sit down, watch the game, eat some food (for free) and just relax. My job is more the before and after of the game than anything else. It's not bad. And we don't even get out super later. WNBA games are short. 2 hours as opposed to 2.5 with the NBA. It's kind of nice.

Some awesome people I met: Joanna. She was really nice and easy to talk to. I was with her when I was helping little kids make posters that they could raise during the game. It was adorable. But yah, she's pretty young (upper 20's I'm guessing) and she was just cool. I also met this mom who I THINK was part of the girls scouts, but I'm not sure. We did a Lynx Party with Girl Scout troops but I think some people might have been through some churches or something. At any rate, she was really friendly and really interested in what I was doing (i.e. interning with the Lynx for Bethel University) She had gone to Northwestern and her friend had gone to Crown, so we are all in the same boat school wise. That's the nice thing about my internship: Meeting lots of sweet people.

Now unfortunately it is FINALS week so I'm supposed to be extremely busy, but I'm currently writing a blog. go figure. SO I will go, be a good student for one more week, and then call it a day! Can't wait to see what this summer will hold. I'm pretty excited. Some of the aspects of my summer will be very complicated, which I'm hoping to work out soon, but otherwise it'll be great.

Amy