Just a few rambles

I just finished watching The Office and it made me very happy :)

Anywho....On days like today I am extremely thankful towards my "Nazzi" leaders and trainers during our two first weeks as Camfel Techs.
Oh the horror of waking up at 6am every morning. Quick breakfeast, quick meeting and by 7:30 we were on the go nonstop till a quick lunch and finally diner.
We were warned that these two weeks would be treacherous, but we had no idea, how painful they would be!
Three days into training, we were sore, exhausted, home sick, and just completely ou to it.
From lifting, running, setting up, working with different people every two days, sweating, working hard under the sun, hussling, dragging ourselves on the ground, being timed, and pushed all day to waking up the next and start over!?

Yeah....it was tough BUT all for a splendid reason!
Today, Tiffany and I had 4 shows in two different schools.
Normally, we are to be at a school 2 hours ahead of the actual show in order to have time only to set up (which at a normal set up takes about 1h30), but also to give us enough time if we were ever to run into technical difficulties, or get lost on the way, or whatever other problems could occur before the show.

So our first school scheduled a 9:05 show and a 10:15 show. Each presentation adds up to 45 minutes..
Our second school scheduled a 1:00pm show, and a 2:00pm show.
It usually takes about 30 minutes to tear down, but it's doable in 20 minutes if hussling like we did back in training.
If you do the math here, you notice that by the time we finish tearing down at the first school, we should already be at the second starting our setup.
The schools were only a couple of miles apart, but still this task seemed close to impossible.
Needless to say last night and earlier this morning I was quite nervous about today.
I knew we would be hussling, with barely any food in our bellies and little amounts of energy.

BUT had we not been pushed so hard during training, on days like these, we would've been late.
Instead of being late, we actually had 35 minutes to spare once everything was set up at the first school and about 20 minutes left to spare at our second as well.
We couldn't have done this without our tough training weeks, (and the 6 young boys that helped us tear down at the first school were a good help as well.)

Anywho, such was my day. Intense and exhausting, but definitely doable.
The schools were in Misouri and we are back at our motel in Kansas. We will be here till sunday, and then we'll stay in Misouri for a week or so.

I was really sad today because we got our October schedule in the mail (our boss sends mail for us to schools where he knows we'll be, that's how we get mail.) and I was hoping that I would be in Coloroado for my birthday (Oct 21rst), but I'll be in Misouri :(
It's ok though, I will be getting an early present in the mail from my dear friend Jessie, whom I spent about 3 hours on the phone with today, and witnessed her excitement as she "saw the perfect gift for me!" hehe.
Also, other good news, along with our schedule, we got an evaluation form from one of the first shools we'd done in Norhtern California, and we got all 5s (out of 5s, not 10 haha).
It's encouraging to feel like we are working hard, but also have it "confirmed" by our clients!

So anywho, such has been my day. We had two days off, and definitely made up for them today! whew! gonna sleep like a baby tonight!

Be blessed friends and fam! I pray for you!

Dorina