Prompt Wrote:Your Player has been Invited to take part in a Sporting Event for Charity. Write about your Players experience. What is the Charity for? What Sport did you play? How did your Player do?
It feels like golf is a common charity sport event, but I'm not sure that I'd really have fun doing that so I turn most of those down. When I got an invite from the Austin Center for Grief and Loss for a charity volleyball game as part of Austin's Amplify Austin event, I was much more interested. Since moving to Austin after the draft, I've been really impressed with how the city tries to encourage local charity efforts through events like this. For the actual event, I did pretty much what you'd expect - show up, do a lot of autographs and picture taking, present a giant check to the president of the charity, and then actually get in some volleyball. I think everyone there had a good time. As far the charity itself, their mission is to help with those who are dealing with grief and loss, naturally enough. It seemed like a very relevant group to help out given the difficulties in the world today. I was lucky enough to not need something like that while in college myself, but seeing others having to deal with rough situations in their own lives showed me that having the ability to get help to get through a rough situation is invaluable. Not everyone has friends who have experienced a given situation and being able to find someone who has through an organization like this seemed great to me.
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