While national news coverage may suck there has actually been something GOOD going on in the states this last week called the Special Olympics World Winter Games here in Boise, ID and other winter wonderland cities through out Idaho including McCall and Sunnvalley as hundreds of teams from around the world have gathered to take part. But thanks to the national news sucking some major balls (Obama's in particular) there hasn't been much coverage of it at all aside from our local news and the world press. Even the Vice President visited the games (for all of 3 hours) and that still didn't garner much news attention at all. So to say that the news FAILS is an understatement but that's only a small part of what is going on here.
The big part of what is going on here is the awesome and fun time these teams are having and the interesting learning experience that a good majority of local people are getting from having the Special Olympics here this year. I know it's been interesting for myself having the teams for Trinidad & Tobago and Yemen staying at the hotel I work at. The first day of course was a huge cluster fuck as people didn't know what was going on what to do and what to tell people. It didn't help that the Manager had turned off and locked the juice machine the night before and took the key home leaving the teams with out any juice for the first morning. When the bus driver showed up to pick up some folks to take them to an important meeting no one was ready or new that they had to leave at that time. Then they couldn't even find one person because it turned out they were from a different team staying at an entirely different hotel some where else. Both teams came down at the same time for breakfast demolishing it in seconds and getting impatient because we couldn't get food out fast enough for everyone. In the middle of all that one woman started having an epileptic seizure thankfully it was taken care of before we had to call anyone. At that point I was able to leave though so I was able to escape the madness.
Thankfully for the most part after that day it's been pretty peaceful minus the one black out when we did need to call the paramedics to come take a look at the athlete and of course calling 911 is always fun when you're trying to answer their barrage of questions when you don't know any of what's going on with the athlete. Some of the more interesting things is that we have a couple cute ladies working and they have been getting hit on by the bus drivers (they also came from all over the states to help) and I'm sure the athletes as well as one of girls kept getting waved at and smiles from the athletes and I told her that I'd bet that she'd be under a pile of those Olympic pins by the end of the week but I don't know if she's gotten anymore of them since that one but last night they all wanted to take pictures with her and when she told me about it she warned me about it I told her that since I'm not a cute girl I didn't think I had anything to worry about. Sure enough never got bothered while folding those sheets. Oh yeah you can just refer to me as laundry bitch for now and I'll tell you more about that during the weekly review.
The Special Olympics end today and all of the teams head home on Saturday I haven't kept track of the actual sports that have been going on but then I'm not into a good majority of the sports at the Olympics and I sleep while they are going on so I haven't been to the actual games but it's been fun and interesting have the teams from Trinidad & Tobago as well as Yemen and I wish them the best of luck in their future adventures. Now someone just needs to go slap the collective news organization of the United States of America for ignoring something that is both interesting and wonderful happening here in the states. I couldn't find any good pictures of the Special Olympics so this picture of Asian hotties in ski gear will have to work OK.
The big part of what is going on here is the awesome and fun time these teams are having and the interesting learning experience that a good majority of local people are getting from having the Special Olympics here this year. I know it's been interesting for myself having the teams for Trinidad & Tobago and Yemen staying at the hotel I work at. The first day of course was a huge cluster fuck as people didn't know what was going on what to do and what to tell people. It didn't help that the Manager had turned off and locked the juice machine the night before and took the key home leaving the teams with out any juice for the first morning. When the bus driver showed up to pick up some folks to take them to an important meeting no one was ready or new that they had to leave at that time. Then they couldn't even find one person because it turned out they were from a different team staying at an entirely different hotel some where else. Both teams came down at the same time for breakfast demolishing it in seconds and getting impatient because we couldn't get food out fast enough for everyone. In the middle of all that one woman started having an epileptic seizure thankfully it was taken care of before we had to call anyone. At that point I was able to leave though so I was able to escape the madness.
Thankfully for the most part after that day it's been pretty peaceful minus the one black out when we did need to call the paramedics to come take a look at the athlete and of course calling 911 is always fun when you're trying to answer their barrage of questions when you don't know any of what's going on with the athlete. Some of the more interesting things is that we have a couple cute ladies working and they have been getting hit on by the bus drivers (they also came from all over the states to help) and I'm sure the athletes as well as one of girls kept getting waved at and smiles from the athletes and I told her that I'd bet that she'd be under a pile of those Olympic pins by the end of the week but I don't know if she's gotten anymore of them since that one but last night they all wanted to take pictures with her and when she told me about it she warned me about it I told her that since I'm not a cute girl I didn't think I had anything to worry about. Sure enough never got bothered while folding those sheets. Oh yeah you can just refer to me as laundry bitch for now and I'll tell you more about that during the weekly review.
The Special Olympics end today and all of the teams head home on Saturday I haven't kept track of the actual sports that have been going on but then I'm not into a good majority of the sports at the Olympics and I sleep while they are going on so I haven't been to the actual games but it's been fun and interesting have the teams from Trinidad & Tobago as well as Yemen and I wish them the best of luck in their future adventures. Now someone just needs to go slap the collective news organization of the United States of America for ignoring something that is both interesting and wonderful happening here in the states. I couldn't find any good pictures of the Special Olympics so this picture of Asian hotties in ski gear will have to work OK.
