The last two days have been very long days. Yesterday, all of the interns volunteered for the Kent County Habitat for Humanity. We reframed a house so it can be remodeled and sold to a family in need of a new house. It was a good time and I enjoyed volunteering for the Habitat for Humanity organization. I have never done anything with construction before, so I learned a lot about what goes into building a house. I mainly patched holes in the floor and I also helped put in a couple of walls in the house. Today, we got the field ready for the upcoming six game home stand. We painted all of the logos, I raked and drug the warning track, spot aerated along the foul lines, and started to reslope the away bullpen mounds. The away bullpen needs a lot of work done to it because it is the bullpen that we drive all of our equipment over. So it will be a couple day process of getting it to the point it needs to be at. It was a busy day for sure and we got a lot of stuff done.

It has been a long three weeks. We are going on close to three weeks straight without a day off. This week there was the Midwest All-Star game and six additional road games, but we have had events on the field almost everyday which makes it hard to get anything done. Today we did some resodding behind the mound. Resodding is pretty easy, it is just very time consuming. I have resodded before at the golf course, so nothing was new to me. We will continue to re-sod tomorrow and we will also level first and second base. So tomorrow will be a pretty busy day and hopefully we will be able to have Sunday off. On Tuesday all of the interns are volunteering at the Habitat for Humanity here in Grand Rapids. One of the requirements for the internship is an intern volunteer day. All of the interns pick from a list of organizations to volunteer at and this year it was the Habitat for Humanity. We will be helping frame a house. Then on Wednesday another home stand starts up. 

It has been a long home stand. We had eight games in six days with two doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday. Thankfully we only have three more games left in the home stand. Today was a little break from the norm for me, because today I did my shadow day. For my shadow day I chose to shadow tickets. But before going up to the ticket office I worked until lunch with the guys getting the field ready for the games. Early in the morning I spot aerated bad areas around the plate, mound, shortstop, second base, and where the umpires stand. Those areas get really compacted because of all the foot traffic those areas receive on a daily basis. After spot aerating those areas I went up and did my shadowing of the guys in the ticket office. While shadowing I learned how to: use the two ticket programs the Whitecaps use (they use Ticket Return and File Maker), how to talk on the phone and sell tickets that way, how to total the nights attendance, and a lot more. I chose to shadow tickets because tickets is the easiest way to break into professional sports and knowing how to sell tickets and work a ticket program are key to getting a ticket position. Today was a pretty slow day in terms of selling tickets because of the weather conditions, so I didn't get to work a ticket window, but I watched them do it and it seems pretty easy. Overall, it was a good experience and it was nice to get away from the grounds crew for a day even though I did drag the field during the games. Selling tickets and working a ticketing program is just another skill I can add to my resume. Coming up in June we have the Midwest League All Star game, our first intern lunch with management, and our intern volunteer day. It is cool how they have the interns come together and spend a day helping the community of Grand Rapids. Things are still going grea