Heading to Helsinki

[OblivionWalker 308]

Some time to herself had been good, but Olivia Walker was bored out of her mind at the moment. Being the assistant general manager of the Oslo Storm had been a good stepping stone as a career as a general manager someday but with the announcement that the VHLE as a league was shutting down, she wasn't sure what her next move would be.

 

Already in Europe, she had decided to take some time and travel. She had visited London, taking in the crown jewels as well as the Tower of London and eating her weight in Cadbury before deciding to move on. Germany had held Neuschwanstein, the castle that the Disney logo was based on in the very south of the country on the border with Austria and naturally, since she was near Austria, she had travelled to the field where the iconic opening of the movie "The Sound of Music" had been filmed. While no singer, Olivia had spun in the meadow and surely scared some sheep and or various birds with her warbling off key. She had taken in Switzerland (for the chocolate, naturally) as well as Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. She had traveled while playing rugby but that kind of traveling hadn't been conducive for truly taking in the culture of the places she was visiting.

 

It was in while back in Germany and in the city of Trier, with the old Roman gates still standing when entering the city, Olivia noted the assistant general manager position posting for the Helsinki Titans on several VHL job boards.

 

She had been certain that she would take a season off, perhaps try again with another team in time since there were many general managers and assistants who were now out of work with the shuttering of the E but something in her was tired of wandering. Taking a job, having a team to work with would mean something of permanence. She could hopefully put some roots down in Helsinki, should she be accepted.

 

Hesitantly, she answered the call for a general manager and while she felt that her interview with Ben Hafkey had gone well enough, she hadn't enough of a sense of things to know for certain if she should start heading to Helsinki and in the meantime, she had even applied for another assistant position with another team just in case.

 

She was sitting on her bed, watching Baywatch in German (which was a trip in and of itself) when her phone rang. Puzzled, she leaned over to grab it and saw a number she didn't recognize right away but opened it anyway. "Olivia Walker speaking."

 

"Olivia! It's Ben Hafkey. There's going to be a lot of things to catch up on, but I'd like to offer you the assistant position in Helsinki with the Titans!"

 

"Oh my god! Thank you so much for calling! I'll get myself up to Helsinki as soon as I can! I'm in Germany right now so give me a day or so to get there and we'll get going."

 

As soon as she'd hung up the phone, Olivia began to fling her clothes into her suitcase, spending part of her frenetic packing session on the phone with her parents to let them know that she would not be coming back to the States any time soon, but she was excited. Ben had seemed like he was going to be a good gm, someone that she would be able to work well with and Olivia was looking forward to getting stuck in and doing what she could to help the Titans have a good draft and get some good prospects on deck.

 

"So long, Germany." Olivia muttered under her breath as she got into her rental car so she could head to Frankfurt and get a flight to Helsinki. "It's been real."

 

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