Week 13

Leading up to Visions, Taylor and I were finishing everything up for the video race. Tuesday we put together all of the goodie boxes and then Audra and Naomi helped us Wednesday night with the t-shirts. I am so grateful for their help, without it Taylor and I would have been up incredibly late.

The Visions weekend was amazing. Thursday I picked up Caroline, Leah and Kiva with Maddi and we took them to the hotel to relax. About an hour before our Thursday night dinner I picked up Caroline and Leah and took them to Wrightsville Beach. At the dinner I got to talk to them a bit and they were super cool girls. Friday morning I picked up people from the hotel and took them to campus. The day of the event I stayed as busy as I could. I moderated the keynote, set up video race, had the video race and screened the videos and then had a short break before helping set up dinner and the after party. The entire day was amazing. I think it went smoothly and everyone seemed to have a great time. It was great to see all of our hard work come together for a great event. 

Week 12

The final week before the event has been crazy, to be expected. Taylor nailed down the logistics and so we've been spending the final days leading up to Visions getting all of the materials set. Tuesday we spent two hours painting and filling the goodie boxes. Tonight we will get the t-shirts done with the help of Audra and hopefully a few other volunteers from the class. Then it's a matter of getting everything ready to bring to campus Friday.

Taylor and I met for about two and a half hours Monday night before our meeting with hospitality and development. We had our usual hospitality and development meeting Monday for about an hour and forty-five minutes. Zoe gave me the names of the students coming from VCU and UF so I sent them along with the other people that signed up (excluding the filmmakers and scholars) for the video race an email about the main details regarding the race. The last few days will be spent getting everything together for Friday.