Internship/Racquetball

I am working as a Recreation Therapy Intern at the state of Utah's psychiatric hospital. We use recreation as a treatment and education modality as a means to help people with disabilities and other limitations exercise their right to a lifestyle that focuses on functional independence, health and well-being in a clinical setting. Basically, this means that we work with patients in the psychiatric hospital, helping them develop hobbies and leisure interests that they can use to help them cope with their issues.

I am learning a lot! I am also developing some of these hobbies and leisure interests, such as: wood burning skills, ceramics skills, planting skills, pottery skills, beanie making skills, and other very very valuable skills! It's CRAZY (Literally) but entirely awesome!

I love sports! The mental and physical aspects of sports are awesome! Too many things about sports make me very happy, sooo many that I will have to dedicate a whole blog post about sports another time. Anyways, (said with a Nacho Libre accent) racquetball has been a sport that I have grown to love over the last four years. My roommate Jared Torres, is the best racquetball player in Utah and is amongst the top 25 professional players in the game. Over the last 5 months we have gone to tournaments in New Mexico, Arizona, California, and Wyoming. It has been a lot of fun traveling to these places, meeting new people, and playing LOTS of racquetball.

I just got back from a tournament in Wyoming. We left Provo at 5 AM in the morning, got to the racquetball club at 9 AM and played lots and lots of racquetball until 1:30 AM. We were back at the club early the next morning to finish the tournament. It ended up going pretty well. I placed third in Men's Open division, my roommate Jared took first place. He and I won the doubles division. I ended making $200 so I can't complain. Wyoming people rock! They were very down to earth and made us feel very welcome.