After our CARA meeting it was full steam ahead for the Healthy Kids Day program. It was basically a day of activities for kids and their parents and learn about all the new and exciting programs that will be offered at the Y this summer. This biggest attraction was Sportacus from Lazy Town came and put on a great show for the kids. I work for the Sports and Fitness department so we had our own table set up with the new soccer program that we are offering, dance classes, karate classes, along with summer camps and other fun activities. During the event we had different games and prizes for the kids. We had kids shooting basketballs for pencils and also had a game of musical chairs for them. The two big attractions that we had were our raffle for White Sox tickets that I help provide and then to close out the event our R&B line dance teacher lead the kids and parents in different line dances. It was fun and very energetic event and I was glad to be in participation. 

Coming to work was fun. After leaving hard days at my full time employment coming to the Y was a safe haven. It is a place I look forward to going to each day. The task that were given at times small but I believe they still did a lot to the organization because I helped my mentor feel less pressure and less stress because she knew that she did not have to worry about little things because I had control over it. Got to the point where she did not always have to tell me what to do and I informed her what I was going to do and she would say ok and if she had anything else than she would let me know. During this span we were getting ready for our CARA Road Scholars meeting because their were complications with the first one and also were getting ready for Healthy Kids Day 

During this time I went to the YMCA and was gym attendant and fit attendant  Majority of my time was spent watching over the gym room and helping clean up the fitness center. I learned the class schedule and what were the differences in all the classes offered. I looked in on a few but did not take any. I spoke with other employees about their experiences and shared my goals with them as well. 

I sat down with the soccer coach and started the outline for our proposal to get a soccer league started at the YMCA. I gathered all the information needed to create the document. It had to entail a mission statement an overview of what the program was, a detailed budget that showed profit and loss, and lastly how it would benefit the community and who would help pay for it by being a sponsor. 

The budget was my main concern because it had to be broken down by per child and then had to estimate by how many children we were expecting to show up. After I priced all the equipment and staffing needs with exact pricing I then used estimates to finish the budget and created a low mark for our expected revenue and a high point as well. We charge different prices to join the league for Y members and non Y members.

What is left to do is look over the Y's guidelines and see if I have included all the necessary materials so that they can approve our program and we start recruiting children. We are hoping to get 168 kids ages 5-10 to participate in the soccer league.