Melody's Blog : Community Service

Nicaragua

MelodyA — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:37:00 GMT

Hello everyone!

I know it's summertime and ya'll haven't heard from me in a long time, but I thought I'd let ya'll know how awesome our tour went in Nicaragua! We won three of our five matches, ate a lot of great food, and had more fun than we ever imagined! I could spill all the details here, but I think ya'll would enjoy hearing about it from the rest of my teammates too. If you go to the Butler Volleyball page and read our day by day blog! Here are a few pictures I took during the trip!

I took this while we were waiting to get on the plane This is us stretching before the game Chloe finally caught the frog!

This was my favorite dish! A Nica Tamale! We had a camp day with local kids We had so much fun with them!!

There are more pictures on the Butler Volleyball page and I' putting up more in my pictures section. I hope everyone is having a great summer!

Go Dawgs!!

Melody

This is What the Season is all About!

MelodyA — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:25:00 GMT

The Holiday season is upon us!! This is one of my favorite times of the year, despite the cold! In the spirit of the season the volleyball team decided to do a few projects to give back to the Indianapolis community!! I love doing stuff like this, especially as a team.

This week we helped with a program the local police do for grade school kids to expose them to different sports. We went on two different days and it was a lot of fun!

But we didn't stop our conquest of Christmas cheer there! The team decided to donate toys to the toy drive that channel 6 was having. One of our assistant coaches and a few of us went so they could tape us doing it! I was particularly excited because I love news stations! Our coach is friends with the producer in charge of the toy drive, so I got to make a good contact about a job at the station. She was really excited to meet me when she heard I want to work in the industry!

Overall this week was a great week for sharing the Christmas spirit!! It even worked out for me as well!! We're planning on doing more clinics when we get back from break. I'll let you know if we're doing one near you!! Does anyone have any suggestions for groups or organizations that need a some help? Let me know in a comment so that others can see them as well.

Go Dawgs!! Bark Bark!!

Melody

I am so Not feeling Global Warming Right Now!

MelodyA — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:25:00 GMT

I was so excited about getting to go back home for break. You know the usual is always great seeing my family, friends, and most importantly the 80 degree temperatures! Unfortunately only two out of three of those were very consistent this Thanksgiving break. It was warm for two days, and then it was cold. Maybe not Indianapolis cold but 59 degrees on Thanksgiving is cold on the Gulf Coast!

Other than the weather, it was great to be home and see my family and friends! Thanksgiving really spoiled me for my dad's home cooking. It's just not the same eating at Atherton these past few days. Good thing I have training to keep me focused for these next few weeks. Just because season is over doesn't mean that it's over for us. It just means we don't get to play volleyball that much, now we get to run, lift, run, jump train, and oh did I mention run? Ha ha ha

Oh well, like I said, it keeps me focused. After this week I can work out on my own until January so that will be nice. Our team, both tennis, and golf teams have teamed up to adopt a family for Christmas this year. It's one of the big community service projects the whole athletic department does. We're supposed to go shopping for the family next week so that should be exciting! Service is a big part of the values Butler stands for. What are some community service projects ya'll do?

Go Dawgs!! Bark!! Bark!!

Melody