LEGIT.....

Hey everyone greetings from Butte, MT. I hope that everyone is getting ready for school to start back up because I know I am, especially because this will be the first semester in my college career that I will only take twelve credits. I’m really excited to get my last semester of college completed but also really nervous about becoming an adult and having to join the workforce. Really if you think about it only for a short sliver of your life will you not be working, what a terrible feeling (LOL).

So to wrap up Denver and my internship with Newmont Mining, I LOVE DENVER and working for Newmont, they really take care of their employees and Denver is an awesome place to be with so much going on. If you get board in Denver, Colorado then it your own fault, especially if you are a sports enthusiast like me. Denver has the Rockies, Nuggets, Broncos and the Avalanche. The only down part is they really don’t have a great college sports scene but they sure do make up for it with all the pro sports.

Now on to football, this is the first time in twenty four years that Montana Tech Football hasn’t started the season with Coach Green as our leader. At first it was really weird, you just get so used having coach running around loving life and of course yelling. But I’m really glad that the search committee picked coach Morrell as our new leader of the Montana Tech Ore Diggers, simply he is a winner and we will win, he gives us no other option. We have been doing two-a-day practices since Monday August 8^th and have been enjoying the grind as coach likes to put it. We have a lot of younger guys on our team this year with only nine seniors this year but those nine seniors are solid players and will play a solid amount of time. I’m very excited to see what this season will bring, like before coach Morrell is a winner and wont except anything less than a victory on Saturday’s and that’s the attitude our team has right now. We aren’t picked to win the conference by anyone else but ourselves, we love that. We have no expectations from anyone else but our own and will shortly prove to the world that we are LEGIT…..

Big Sky Air......

Hey everyone I hope that July was been a great month for all. Sorry for not blogging in a long time, work has been keeping me very busy. I actually come back to Montana this Friday, I’m excited and sad. But Denver is definitely the place where I could see myself living other than in Montana. My parents flew down on Sunday so they can drive back with me on Friday; we are going to the Train and Maroon 5 concert tonight up at Red Rocks. So this summer has been a blast I have done a lot of really cool things and met a lot of really fun people, but I’m ready to get that Big Sky state air back in my lungs. But hopefully sometime very soon I will be back down in Denver. So I have my buddies wedding on Saturday night to go to, I’m a groomsman in the wedding. This will be by first time actually being in a weeding so hopefully it goes smooth. I’m getting excited to get back and for football to start also. It’s always a really nice feeling to get back before all the other students get on campus. Well everyone I hope you all have a great week and sorry again for not blogging, I’ll have more detailed one in a couple days.

AKA a Fat Kid’s Utopia.....

Hey everyone, well another week of work down here in Denver. Today is Wednesday, June 29, 2011. So last week was an awesome work week, traveled to Elko, Nevada for our annual intern trip. We left last Tuesday, flew to Salt Lake City and then bussed to Elko. We did a community service project at their K-12 school by giving their playground a real face lift. People were raking, pulling weeds, painting and putting together new playground equipment. I was part of the group of people putting together the new equipment. Then Tuesday night we went to the Star which is a badass steakhouse, they have the family style dining where everyone gets their main meal and then they bring out dishes of pasta, fries, salad and mashed potatoes (AKA a fat kid’s utopia). Wednesday we did our tour of the mines and I got to go underground, which to put it slightly was an experience. It was actually pretty freaky going down the elevator shaft; it was guaranteed the darkest I have ever been in; it was just like the movies. Once you get down there it’s really not too bad, but let’s just say that I was glad to get back to the office. Right before we boarded our plane for the flight back we heard over the intercom that our plane had a cracked windshield and that we would be delayed until 4 P.M and this was around 9 A.M. so we had to sit around all day, but two good things came out of this delay, first of all we got a $300 voucher for a future flight and the second was a we got a kickass lunch bought by Newmont that I’m guessing cost a pretty penny. Then on Friday I Newmont flew me up to good old Butte Montana for Chancellor Gilmore and Coach Green’s retirement party, to be a Newmont representative. Newmont gave Chancellor Gilmore a hardhat that was airbrushed; here some pictures of the helmet. Then the rest of the weekend I went to Helena to go camping with my parents and April. It felt rejuvenating to get back to Montana and do some camping. Autumn and Vance came out Saturday afternoon with his sister and kids that we had never met; they were really nice. So April comes today, actually she is currently on the plane and on her way to Denver. We are going to the Rockies game tonight, sitting first row down by third base. Well everyone I hope you all have a safe and fun 4^th.

Never Get Enough of Big Sky Country.......

Hello everyone, I hope you all had an awesome weekend because I did. If you’re a friend of mine of Facebook then you can tell I have been up to a lot down here in Denver. I met another intern named Josh; he is from Virginia and goes to Virginia Tech. We have been hanging out quite a bit lately; it’s been really nice having someone my age to hang out with. This past weekend Josh and I went to Water World on Friday and did the Wave which is the wave current pool that you kind of boogie board/surf, it was really fun/hard and I stayed on for like thirty seconds but Josh could stay on much longer. We did a lot of the other water slides but the weather wasn’t that great, it was kind of cold for a couple hours but was still really fun.
On Friday night Josh, Emily another intern from Montana Tech and I went to Dave & Busters and ate dinner had a few drinks and of course GAMED (LOL). On Saturday was the Rockies game, it was freaking sweet, these are some pictures from our seats, we were right past first base in row three. The game was really good; the Rockies won 6 to 5 and almost lost it at the end.

So this week at work I will be traveling all week. I’ll be going to Nevada tomorrow, for our annual intern trip which to put it mildly is pretty legit. The trip consists of going down to Elko, Nevada and doing a community service project at a school painting, picking up trash and putting together new playground equipment on Tuesday, Wednesday we go on our mine tour and then stay in Salt Lake City, Thursday we fly back and then Friday I leave for Montana for the weekend. I ‘m really excited to get back to Montana for a couple days; you can never get enough of Big Sky Country. Well everyone I hope you all have a great week because I know I will.

I Love Denver......

Hey everyone I hope that your summer is going well, mine is going awesome. Last weekend I went up to Laramie, Wyoming to hang out with my good buddy from high school, Josh. I went up last Friday afternoon since I got off work at noon due to it being Memorial Day weekend. I stayed with him on Friday night and then came back Saturday afternoon, the trip was really fun and it was good to see him since we don’t get to hang out much since he lives in a different state. I’m sure we will see each other a couple more times before the summer is over.

So work is going really great, I’m really busy, they have had me working on a power point on Iron Ore 101 for the hire ups so they can get a high level understanding of what Iron Ore is, writing a thing called an AFE which stands for authorization for expenditure for $375k. Initially that seems like a boat load of money but with these guys it’s pennies on the dollar, I’ve seen AFE’s that are in the millions. Working over at HQ this summer is a lot different than working at the metallurgy lab, not that I didn’t like working over there, but it’s really nice to be over working on more business type work.

I have been working out this summer, running and lifting my ass off. I hear that the workouts in Butte are going very well and that they are tough, which is good to hear. I’m really excited for the season to start, especially since this is my senior year, I just thought actually that I have been playing football for twelve years and this will be my thirteenth, WOW! I can’t believe that my football career is going to be over; it’s been a long run. Well everyone I better get back to work, have a good one.

DENVER BABY!!!!!

Well good morning everyone, this post is coming to live from Denver Colorado. Finally summer has begun and what a feeling to be done with school, a great song comes to mind, “schools out for summer” sang by Alice Cooper. What an awesome feeling to have, no papers to write or tests to study for. I started work on Monday and have been very busy; they have me working over at HQ instead of the metallurgical lab. So on the trip down to Denver my mom and aunt rode down with me and it was a blast, it would be really boring drive from Montana without someone with you, especially in Wyoming, how boring is Wyoming, let me answer that, BORING.
Great news everyone, I have already gone to my first Rockies game of the season. Monday the Rockies played the Giants and beat them, which was AWESOME because they have been in a huge slump lately. EVERYONE, I will be going to Dave & Buster’s tonight with my mom, Elaine & Lisa my mother’s friends and April. Only April and I have been there so we are really excited to take them there.

My boss got me my gym membership yesterday like they did last summer and I’m really excited to get working out again. Especially since the club I work out at is FREAKING SWEET, this club is the type of club that you see in the movies, when I say that I mean its type of place that women go there and wear tennis outfits with their diamonds and then just have drinks (LOL).

Well everyone I got to get back to work, I will keep you updated, and will be posting some sweet pictures, I’ll update this post after tonight with some pictures from DAVE & BUSTER’S!!!!!

Spring Ball

Hey everyone, I hope that your Easter went awesome and everyone got to participate in an Easter egg hunt (LOL). So I thought I would give everyone an update on how spring ball has been going. Practices have been a lot different than most of us are use to. Practice tempo is crazy fast compared to last spring’s and we are playing very well. This spring we have had to dodge the weather more than usual, we all keep telling coach Morrell that we have never had this much snow in any spring ball in the past, he just laughs. Our team voted on team captains for our 2011 campaign and I was selected by the team to represent them along with Kevin Schey. It was a great feeling to be voted captain of our football team. So back to practices, we have been getting after it during our practices, we have been working hard and the coaches have been pushing us in the weight room and on the field. Coach Morrell tells us almost every day that the coaches are going to push us to our breaking point, that it will not be fun and that he only knows one way to have fun and that is to WIN WIN WIN football games.

So we had school off last Friday but since we have missed so many practices due to the weather being so bad we had to stick around until Saturday afternoon, which sucked because going home for three days would have been really nice to have, but we needed to practice so we can get all of our sixteen practices in before spring ball is all over with. Coach didn’t want to keep us here over the break but he knew that the team would rally around his decision. So on Sunday my dad, Vance and I got to go fishing and let’s just say it was awesome. We caught around fifteen rainbow trout and here is a picture of my big boy I caught. I hope everyone had a great Easter and I will check back in before semesters are over.