Thursday: Packed and Ready

"Opportunites"

It's been three weeks since I've seen my family and it looks like now I might get that chance. Today was in fact a short day, depending on what you called short. From the beginning, today was very shaky, literally. Was awaken in the middle of the night to come downstairs to a room with no windows, as the city of Dallas was under a tornado warning, found out later a tornado did occur and hit a nearby marina, but thank goodness we were safe. The next morning, heavy rains continued on, thunder roaring. Someone once said, "Thunder is a form of God talking," well today he seemed to be a giving a college lecture.

Damp from the weather outside, I finally was able to come in and get some last minute-tasks. I was going from one boss overseas to two bosses overseas, as one of them was on their way to Africa. With that in mind, was given numerous tasks, including a media release about an upcoming event. Getting those things ready to go, I took the essentials of what I needed and was able to get my stuff ready to go. With my assignment of covering the weekend event, plus providing stories, I was able to prepare and get myself equipped for the journey before me.

With everything locked and loaded I was able to depart say my farewells and leave all within 1, yep an early day, especially for me.5 hours later (including breaks) I finally was able to make a pit stop to San Antonio. The cool thing about this was my little brother had an AAU game that night at nine and had no idea I was coming. Through me making his game and shouting his name, he definitely got a big surprise that later he was very grateful for. From there, we ate afterwards, wacthed Orlando barely lose (Dang Derek Fisher) and just enjoyed talking about the experiences of my internship with my mom. To see the look of how proud she was when she saw my first article, definitely was the fuel for me to keep going to proudly show her the next.

With that being said, I definitely enjoyed seeing them, but it was bittersweet as I know as quickly as I got here, will be as quickly as I leave tomorrow. If anything I've learned so far from this internship is that family is important, better yet, time and life is a gift that should be shared and spent to the best of one's abilities, because once it's gone it can never be replaced. Hopefully I spend my time well tomorrow before I go. Until. then stay tuned.