RUGBY!!

so the most recent job I had via office team was with the Scottish rugby union. basically, i replaced this guy, liam, who was kind of lazy and not very organized and altogether a little useless. he actually told me that i shouldn’t be so American in my work and i should “chill out” a little. ummm, right. so, sru didn’t really appreciate that kind of attitude and so they asked for someone else: ME!! what i did was make the accreditation p asses for the visiting team that would give them the access they needed to the locker room and so they could actually get to the pitch to play; i made passes for journalists and photographers so they could have access to the “media” areas; VIPs like the CEOs of companies, the finance commissioner, match officials, match medics, etc. it was much more involved that i thought it would be—i was busy all the time (i worked form 8-6. that’s a lot of time to fill) and it went rather quickly to be honest. but i really enjoyed the organizing aspect of it. i actually felt like what i was doing was helpful to someone. and this is a task/position that an actual person usually has, so i basically just took over part of her job. i had full access to the accreditation email account and was able to correspond with people from the media about their film crew, to companies about who they were sending to advertise during the match, etc. i mean, i was the go-to girl for the BBC! that’s pretty darn cool.

probably the most exciting part of my job was that on Saturday i actually got to watch the rugby match that i had made all the passes for. the first part of the day was quite boring, as i spent it in a brick building handing out the passes to the media before the game, but after that was all finished, i got to go up to the media area and watch! it was really exciting. i didn’t really understand what was going on, but i asked a ton of questions to Pamela, who worked with me, and so i think i have a good understanding of how rugby is played. i’m officially a fan! i worked there until Wednesday of this week, and there’s a match today against Canada (which i also made all the passes for, thank you. :) ) if we’re actually in the flat, i think i might watch it.

not much else going on right now that’s exciting. there’s a vegetable market that’s pretty close to us that we’re going to check out today, and then we’ll probably hit up a museum or something. a nice relaxing day in Edinburgh.