It's Gonna Be Great!

Today I started my CIY internship. I'm an official CIY Move Event Staff member. I'll just go through the day for everyone. I woke up at about 7:00 this morning from a text this morning from one of cousins, Trent. He told me to have a great day on my first day on the new job.  Then I went back to sleep and woke up again about 8:30. I really wanted to get some sleep because I knew that this summer was going to be a summer of no sleep for me so I tried to sleep a little bit longer. I finally got up at about 9:30. I started getting ready and packing. Yes, I packed this morning but luckily it's down the street from my house so I can just go home when I forget something (which I did). I left the house at 11:15 to go to Walmart to get gas and order contacts. I was getting super nervous. I was about to meet 25 other people who I have not met before and I need to remember 25 other people's names. (It's harder than you think!) I drove around for about 10 min because I didn't want to be super early! So I got to CIY about 11:50 because we had to be there at 12. I walked in with 2 other girls. Thankfully one was my team leader. So she was the first person I met. We were the first three people there! (So glad I didn't go earlier!) We started mingling and getting our name tags ready. They said our name and where we were from. This was hard question for me! Where am I from? West Plains really but I didn't want to confuse people so I put Webb City. Some people who work for CIY came around and were introducing themselves to us, they were like oh ya you're the local girl.  Haha I guess that's a good thing to be. We then ate lunch, Subway. We got to get our binders which we have to take with us when we go to the CIY building. Chase, our leader, then said that they were going to jump us right in and start moving some things because they didn't want to start orientation today since mostly everyone will be here tomorrow. So we went over to OCC and mingled more then got right to work. I was voted in to go and load stuff into a Penske truck. I did not know what I was getting myself into. We loaded and unloaded 3 truck fulls!! We got the Penske stuck once and had to get a truck to pull us out. That was a lot of fun. Man! I'm going to have some huge arm muscles by the end of the summer! That stuff is heavy! That's about all we did for today. We ended the day back at CIY with a debrief kinda. Chase gave us journals. These journals we have to carry everywhere. Mostly they are journals that we will write things in so we don't forget something. Like instructions, phone numbers, etc. they can be used to journal in but I'm choosing to do this instead. We were officially done with day 1! We then all decided to go eat at the mall food court. Mostly because its like the only place in JoMo that will seat 22 people fast. It's been great getting to know people. I ate at China Pantry and someone asked why did I pick the most sketchy place in the food court. Lol. Obviously, they had forgotten that I live here.  I said its good. I eat there a lot. Then they were like oh ya you live here. Most people went safe and got Chick-fil-a. We then went back to the hotel. Good thing to because as soon as I walked into the hotels door the tornado sirens were going off. There were some people who were a little scared. I was like this happens all the time. It didn't help that the news was showing the Oklahoma tornado. Praying for those that were effected there. We were safe inside the hotel lobby. We were going to be just fine. Some people were like I've never been in a tornadic thunderstorm before. They had no clue what to do or even where to go. We started playing games. It was so much fun. More things to get to know these new people. To end the night, most of us went to orange leaf. Got ice cream, played more games, and told everyone our name and favorite cereal. There are several that don't like cereal. It was a little crazy. Now I'm in my room about to go to sleep. I get to room with one of my teammates which I'm excited about! More time to get to know each other. I think we are the first full team here so that's exciting. We all get to know each other. Everyone seems to be so nice and friendly! I had nothing to be nervous about of course. Tomorrow is orientation and later this week we will be doing team bonding games. It's gonna be a great summer!!