June 6th -Luau

Aloha!

Today was the big Luau and I spent the day helping set up. We setup all the food stations and did all the decorating. I made sure all the stations had everything they needed before we started because once the students come to eat it is absolute chaos and there is no time to run and find stuff.

I had to help with a lot of decorating which I already have mentioned is hard for me but i am getting better. Half the day I spent following Kim around making sure she had her clipboard or phone or pen which was hilarious because most of the time she didn't and neither did I. So yea I am not the best intern.... ha ha.

The Luau was great and the food was delicious but I was exhausted by the end of it and so sick of being surrounded by a million people so I went and hid on break in the Junction. I also helped take down the event which I never usually do, I just set up and leave it so it was cool to be a part of it from start to finish. Taking down is a lot faster then setting up and its amazing that something that took us two days to do can be gone in about an hour.

June 5th

Today I was back at Segundo (yay!). This is my favorite place because I know the workers really well and we all have a good time when we work. We were preparing for the big Luau dinner for the next day. I was assigned to be Kim Evans little shadow for the day. Her and I make a bomb super team. By the end of the day we changed my name from Sarah to 'lil kim' because I was her trusty sidekick in fighting catering crime. Anyway, her and I worked on the equipment pull which is a lot harder than I thought it would be. Basically that means we had to gather all the junk we were going to use to set up for the Luau. So yea I didn't really know where everything was but half the time she didn't either so we had to go digging for it. It was good because it got me oriented to all the ins and outs of the unit.

June 4th

Well now I am back in California and I am actually happy to be here. Now that I am over the homesickness and have met some cool people I really love it here. The town is a small college town like the one I live in back at home and it is really relaxed and cool.

Today I met early early early at the coffee shop Brenan'a in the Silo. My friend Arbel that I met in catering works there so him and I had a good time just making coffee. He thought it was funny because at one point everyone had left me by myself and I really had no idea what I was doing but I pulled it off anyway.

I was supposed to go work at Taco Bell in the afternoon but I really didn't want to so I decided to take Richard's advice and make this internship what I wanted it to be and I stayed at Brenan's. Later I heard they needed help at Mondavi, the performing arts hall on campus, so I went over there to get the drink bar set up. Turns out they didnt really need me so I only worked for about an hour.

Weekend 4

Today I met with Richard who is the manager of retail at the Silo. We talked a lot about franchising. He also gave me a lot of general advice on pursuing a career in my future and also how to make the best of my internship. He was really cool to talk to but was very busy so I spent the next couple of hours going over the budget with his assistant. It was crazy to me that the retail side of sales actually loses money consistently but they still stay in business. The reason was it keeps the students happy. So they just rely on board side to make up the deficit.

I got to leave early today because I flew to Salt Lake to go to my friends wedding reception. It was awesome. I was so happy to be home even if for just two days. On Saturday I went up the canyon and did a ropes course for the first time. It was so freaky but fun. I went really slow while my brothers and dallas were just flying across the thing. I loved it!

May 31st

Today I got to work with Ruby Lozada who does the accounting for the retail side. This lady is the bomb. Even though we were doing basic number inputting I loved the day. I also helped Anna with payroll and learned all the headaches that come with their clock-in/clock-out machines.

After lunch I helped barb with the money counting for all the vending. It wasn't the most interesting thing to watch but I got to sit in the smallest room ever and talk to her for a while. All I know is I would never want to be in charge of that much money...

Tonight I played ultimate frisbee at a field by my apartment with some church friends. I thought I was semi-good at that game but as it turns out I am really not the best. I was dying by about half an hour through it but everyone wanted to keep going for about an hour more. They were intense. Afterwards I went out to ice cream with my friend Mark to Dairy Queen which happened to be my first job so it was fun to go into that place again. I ordered the most fun thing on the menu to make, not eat, just for the employee.

May 29th

Today I had one of those mornings where nothing would go right. I was supposed to work at the coffee shop in one of the biology buildings at 7:00 am. I of course couldnt find it and was riding my bike all over campus trying to find it. Someone told me that it was way out by the medical center so I went over there and it wasn't. Turns out it was back where I wasin the beginning so I ended up being an hour late for work. I am not a morning person! Working at the coffee shop was cool though because I don't drink coffee so it was quite a challenge trying to figure out the difference between a latte, cappucino, mocha, etc. I had fun with it and by the end of the day I could call out a drink like a champ.

Weekend 3

Friday I went to a church dance in Sacramento with a bunch of people which was fun. It became very apparent to me that people in Utah don't know how to dance which means I looked really funny and people could probably tell that I was an out of towner ha ha.

Sunday I went to a friends house for dinner. It was hilarious because she made salmon, rice, salad, cherries, eggs, potatoes, and cinamon rolls-the weirdest mix of food I have ever had but it was delicious and kind of a nice break from eating at the DC.

Monday was Memorial Day which meant I didn't have to work so I spent the afternoon at Ross, the thrift store, and Walmart. It was this afternoon that I realize I don't love all three of these places and I shouldn't visit all three of them at once. On the upside though I got to go horseback riding in the evening at a friends house. I hadn't been riding in about 5 years so it was awesome. My horse was a little sassy and started running full speed and wouldn't stop so I thought I was gonna die but it was totally worth it. My back hurt for a week after that from trying to sit up straight and stay on the horse.