Life Update: Sarah

Next up on the update front is my sweet girl, Sarah.  Sarah just started her senior year at UNC Charlotte where she is majoring in Communications and Public Relations.  One of the requirements for graduation in her major is that she has to have a relevant summer internship so in February she started the search.  She applied to so many openings and wasn't getting called for interviews for any of them.  

Summer was quickly approaching and she began to worry that she wasn't going to get a job.  So she arranged her fall schedule so that she had classes only on Tuesdays and Thursdays in case she needed to do her internship during the fall semester.

She was panicking that she wasn't going to get any internships.  Without an internship she wouldn't be able to graduate! I started praying harder than ever and  I asked everyone I knew to pray for her.  And within a couple of weeks, she had four interviews lined up!  She got called back for second interviews with three of them. And while this was going on, she said, "Mom!  Your prayers are working too well!" 

She got offered all three of the jobs she had second interviews for and chose the one she really wanted the most.  She currently works for the Charlotte Motor Speedway as a Communications fellow!  This is a fellowship and not an internship which means she works for them from July to the end of December and she is absolutely loving it!  **Please notice how God works...she wasn't getting any interviews so she set her school schedule so she could work a job in the fall if she needed to.  And the job God provided her with was not only her dream internship but a six month fellowship that works with her school schedule!  Y'all!  God is so good!

After she started, she found out that typically they choose recent college graduates for this position. In fact, the other fellow that she is working with just graduated from college.  So that made her feel extra special! 

She says she is learning a lot.  Every Thursday, all the interns have a meeting with different guest speakers or learn about different things/skills to help them when they begin looking for a job. She's meeting a lot of cool people and having the time of her life!  

Their special guest speaker this day was a retired commander from the 82nd Airborne (he was there after Dan was in the 82nd).  He is currently running NASCARs Welcome Home Patriots program.

The aftermath of the Monster Truck Race!

Riding around the track doing over 100MPH!  She said that she is getting track certified so that she can drive on the track.

 

  

She also got to work the Coca Cola 600 which is the Speedway's biggest race.  It was at the end of May.  They asked her to come work it even though her official first day of work wasn't until July 1st.  She had a blast!

So official!

View from the roof where all the spotters stand.

The Press Room! She got to sit in while they were doing all the before race pressers with the race car drivers.

She even got to hang out on pit road!

In June, Sarah went to a graduation with Joe and his family in Philadelphia.  They also got to attend a Phillies game.  I'm not sure if I've mentioned it or not but Sarah (who used to hate baseball) is now a Phillies fan thanks to Joe and miraculously loves baseball now.  

 

 

 

For Sarah's birthday, Joe got her tickets to see The Great Gatsby on Broadway.  The Great Gatsby is her favorite book and Sarah loves a good Broadway show so she was thrilled.  They had the best weekend in New York.

 

Look at the cream cheese selection at the bagel shop they went to!

AND!!! They got to see the Phillies BEAT the Yankees in Yankee Stadium! (That makes this Red Sox fan happy!!

AND!  They got to see Chicago.  They got cheap tickets they day off the play.  What an unexpected bonus!

And now, after an eventful summer of work and play, she is back in class.  She is juggling school, work, her executive position in her sorority, AND she has an executive position in the UNC Charlotte chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of American.  It's going to be a very busy semester for my girl!