At least I have an excuse to be the true me, right? Fair complexion + sun + polo = you guessed it! Good thing we got all the new shirts yesterday, so their collars are nice and stiff.
Today we wore our new clothes for pictures in the morning but changed into our own golf attire for a morning of lessons in course marking and an afternoon learning how to spray paint, where to paint hazards and out of bounds markers, and, in my case, making my first mistake of the summer. No, not the fact that I got red dots all over my formerly nice Editor shorts. I was opening a spray paint bottle and hit the nozzle, spraying it on the golf cart seat... got told "well. at least you learned something." Good thing the organization's director tells us that one of the values that makes up this place is making mistakes and learning from them. I did! I also learned I didn't know that courses had to have markings on them and didn't realize it involved spray painting... reminds me of the days that Hannah Groom and I used to spray paint anything we could get our hands on. Yeah, we're gangsters.
We also got caught in the rain - a downpour with thunder - while we were doing course markings, so half of my body was wet (the left since I was in the driving seat of the golf cart), but we'll never leave home without the new Footjoy rain gear again! This weekend there is a preseason tournament at the course where headquarters is located, so all the teams will get to really try out the things we're learning with multiple tournament directors around.
It was a long day, lots of time in the sun and rain, lots of learning, and I am exhausted. I am really really excited for the summer and told them today that I can stay as late as they want me to into the fall, so I might be staying through Labor Day! I hope the rest of the summer is as exciting and mostly fun as these 2 days of training have led me to believe! Too bad I won't be able to learn how to wear heels, like my mother asked. It is the South, but it's going to be the South of sun, rain storms, and eating weird food. For tomorrow? I'm just trying not to make another big booboo...
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