Long days

(My view...not to shabby)

Today was filled with lectures about the ski office and all the procedures that come with it. While they are important, man was it hard to remember it all and pay attention the whole time from 7:30am to 4pm. Today was my day to give a disability presentation. The disability I was assigned was Multiple Sclerosis (MS), lucky for me two of the interns were very familiar with this disease and helped me so so much. I gave my presentation and visualization exercise without much of a hang up. Even though I was suuuper nervous to present...as usual, I managed to make it through. Today I also realized that the two shoes that I had packed for Breck don't fit me...awesome...NOT! My hiking shoes were too tight, only on one foot...super awkward. My snow boots fit me in Monterey but apparently Colorado makes me shrink a ton and my feet don't fit at all in the Sorel boots I bought. They were so uncomfortable I was literally contemplating walking around in just my socks. Meeting the ski office staff was slightly intimidating, Gene the director has quite a strong personality and is a bit scary. I think that was his plan though, to make us shake in our boots a little. Mission Accomplished.

Tonight as there will be every week we had a "cleaning party" and then staff meeting. The cleaning party was just wonderful. I stupidly opted for the bathroom portion of this cleaning which wasn't horrible until I managed to splash toilet water on myself...so foul...horrible in fact haha. After cleaning and meeting a few of us put together dinner. I have really enjoyed this group aspect because we all kind of pitch in what we can. Some cook, others clean and we all graze throughout the whole meal. Tonight we made nachos which were DELISH and guacamole rice and then Kevin and I cooked bacon and garlic green beans. It was all so yummy!! I have a funny feeling that I am going to be the size of a house by the end of these 6 months.

Speaking of being the size of a house...I went on a run today to try and combat my fatty eating habits. Holy moly is running here hard! First of all from our cabin you can only go down hill which means you obviously must make it UP the massive hill. Down felt great, the cold air on my cheeks was refreshing but coming up the hill was a whole other beast. I thought I was going to induce an asthma attack of sorts from trying to make it up the hill. Great news though folks I am alive and well...and breathing =D

Tomorrow we leave for Denver for an overnight trip to see a few of our clients. We are leaving at 6:00am tomorrow!! I am quickly realizing that it is going to be some early mornings here in Breck. We get to meet the cleft pallet kids, working with the MS group and a few others. We are also heading to the Colorado Food Bank to donate some of our time in exchange for the food that all of us interns are gorging ourselves on daily. I am looking forward to tomorrow's visits just because it will take us to a new scene but I am really hoping that I don't have to drive the 2 hour drive in the MONDO YACHT!!

Welp, I am off to go pack for Denver, miss you all!

xoxo

-L

p.s. My mailing address if anyone is interested...

C/O Leah Parsons

P.O. Box 3155

Breckenridge, CO 80424