DONUTS!!

(Basically my attempt at snow shoveling in a nutshell)

I don't know what it is about this place but they sure do love giving us donuts. They all keep saying we will get the BOEC intern 40 which is NOT good considering how hard I worked to to get my body in shape before this. There is a gym in town but its a good 35 minute walk to get there and thats no fun. Every meeting in this place seems to start with cookies or donuts which is going to be a big problem. Considering how much I love food you can only imagine how hard it is to turn down a donut...NOT GUNNA HAPPEN =) Once the donut scarfing was done we learned about the different perks of working for the BOEC which is awesome! We then saw a ton more gear up at the admin office and met everyone who works up there. I am excited to have met the development director Marci. She does all the fund raising for us generating approximately $600,000 to keep us going strong as a non-profit. After the admin office business we headed back to the intern cabin for a lunch break.

After lunch we had a not so pleasant experience...we learned how to snake a toilet. For those of you who don't know what that is...it's basically like a SUPER DUPER plunger for the mondo bombs that get dropped. Needless to say it was HORRIBLE but apparently this is part of the job (this must have been in the fine print somewhere because I was NOT warned about it). Then after that wonderful lesson in snaking toilets we cleaned out the vans, shoveled the walkway a bit and looked at participant paperwork to familiarize ourselves with all of it. Speaking of shoveling it's been snowing here like crazy which means lots of shoveling for us. The way it works for us interns is that we get a week on and a week off of shoveling and this is my week on. All shoveling must be done BEFORE we go to work each day. Let me tell you tomorrow is going to suck...I have to be at work at 7 am which means instead of waking up at 6 like normal i have to get up at 5:30 am to shovel. Again, the damn fine print I should have read.

In other news I'm super excited about Monday because we get to jump on the mountain and finally start skiing in this beautiful place!

Today we also headed down to the supermarket to get all of our "freshies". We get $90 bucks a week to buy all our fresh food for the 12 of us to survive on. As we were heading down we found out that all the power was out up at our cabin because apparently someone hit a telephone pole...not so bueno. After shopping we set out to get back up the hill but had to put chains on. I was pretty stoked that I applied my new skills and put them on without any problems! I was soo dirty and gross after but I felt pretty accomplished knowing I could do it. Luckily we made it up the hill just fine and unloaded a TON of groceries.

Alright off to eat dinner and workout!

xoxo

-L