The phone call

About a week and a half after the end of nationals I got a call from the Director of Officials for Ringette Canada. I figured she was calling just to see how things were going with Sharron, and how I was doing. After going through all of that, she told me I had been selected as one of the two officials to go to Prague, Czech Republic for the U19's. I was shocked, to say the least. Not having any idea what the selection criteria was, and having written it off in my head, it was certainly unexpected. I was told the event was August 4 - 8 but she didn't have much more information beyond that, with regards to when we would be leaving etc. I told her that I woudl have to get back to her, as I hadn't planned for any of this when I was booking vacation with work for the year, so now had to figure out what I was going to do.