An Alexander Kind of Day

So today should have been a fabulous day since I started my new internship at the SC Arts Commission, however it was not. I had a not so good weekend so I woke up in a not so good mood. Because of my yuck weekend I decided to spend one more night at home so I had to get up early to drive the two hours back to Columbia, and everyone knows how much I hate to drive. I did enjoy my first day at the SCAC. I didn't do anything terribly exciting but I got to meet lots of new people so that was fun. I also got to reformat documents which described people's job descriptions which seems lame, but it was a good way to really see what some people at the SCAC really do. After I got off at two I then headed over to my second job (I have three this summer). I was supposed to pick up the kids I babysit from school so I headed to Polo Road Elementary. I then waited in the carpool line like a good mommy and finally it began to move. One teacher asked me who I was there to pick up and retorted back that they must be new because she didn't know them. I didn't think anything of this seeing as they are new because they moved here from Texas at the beginning of the school year. I then proceeded down the carpool line to pick up the kiddies. Two more teachers gave me confused looks when I told them who I was there to pick up and then a fourth one told me they did an all-call and there were no kids by the names that I gave them. At this point I began to panic and I called their mom to find out they go to Round Top Elementary. WHERE IN THE WORLD DID I COME UP WITH POLO ROAD?????? I felt so dumb and then had the realization that those teachers at Polo Road probably thought I was a crazy kidnapper or something! So then I hurried off to the right school to pick them up. I apologized for being late and then we drove home to play and eat snacks. Then I had to take one of them to a baseball game where I got to sit in the rain because the lovely coaches refused to cancel it. Oh well. His mom came to my rescue very soon and let me go home, where I am now writing this blog instead of eating dinner even though I'm starving but there are strange people in my living room and I don't feel like being social. Hopefully, they'll leave soon or I'll just eat candy for dinner :)

EXCITING things

So, I stopped blogging ummm well this time last year because I thought nothing exciting in my life was happening. However I interned with the Piccolo Spoleto Festival which was super exciting and now that I think back I wish I had something to LOOK back to as well. I just don't remember all the funny little things that happened everyday and all of the things that I learned along the way. So all of this being said, I know exciting things are in store for me this summer so I'm going to blog about them so that next May I will have something to look back at and not just think back at. This summer I have already moved into my very first apartment(exciting), started a new nannying job (exciting), continued my job as an admissions counselor (not as exciting because its not new but whatever), and snagged an awesome internship at the South Carolina Arts Commission. So as I start out on a blogging adventure once again, I hope to remember all of the EXCITING things that happen this summer!

The end is steadily approaching

Its that time of the year where I start freaking out because there are so many things to get done in three very short weeks, one of them being a project for this class that I haven't even started on, ahhhhh! But oh well, I'll get it all done somehow. But as I think back over this semester, I'm realizing how much I have and how much I have learned, partly because of this class. I've known what it is that I want to do with my future (or so I think) since last semester, but because of this class I've been able to really hone in on exactly it is that I want to do. I really want to work for a community arts program. I thought for awhile that I wanted to create one of these programs, but I think that because I want to have a family, and hopefully not have to work full time for the rest of my life, that I would much rather work for someone else, and promote their program than be my own boss. I've began to realize that I don't just love dance, I just love the arts. Mostly I love dance, because its mine, but I really do love all of the arts. I don't know much about the other art forms, and this is my next goal over my last two years of college so that when I graduate, I will be versed (I won't say well-versed because there's no way I could be well-versed after just two years) in most of the art areas.

Piccolo Spoleto Festival

I was just offered a position with the Piccolo Spoleto Festival for the summer. All my praying and hard work is finally paying off, and I'm oh so very excited! I'll be getting to assist in the planning and carrying out of the festival. I'm going to get lots of first hand experience doing all of the thing that I love such as organizing, planning, and managing- all in the arts field! Better yet, I can get 3 hours worth of class credit for it! I'm still waiting to hear back from BAX, but Piccolo is probably going to be my plan for the summer so that I can save lots of money and hopefully go to New York next summer!

BAX

So, I just received an e-mail from BAX!!! I'm excited even though all it said was to re-submit my application in the .doc format! HAHA! I know I'm getting a little too excited, but at least contact has been made! Let's hope for the best!

Sad day...Turned around...Hopefully

So today started as a sad day, I applied for an apprentice position with the Spoleto Festival a few months ago, and I got a letter back today saying that I did not get the position. This really bummed me out, but rather than being grumpy all day, I decided to be proactive and see what I could do to change the situation. I have been looking at other internship positions that I have been too scared to apply for because they are not in Charleston (which is home for me). But today, I applied to intern at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, in New York City. The position they are offering sounds exactly like what I want to do, and I'm so excited that I've applied for it. I think it will fit me much better than the Spoleto position would have. I hope that God is laying things out to work out in a completely different, but more perfect for me kind of way. Let's all keep our fingers crossed!

Business Plan Revised

So after some thinking I've changed my mind a little about what I want to do with my future. This is my new concept statement...

I would like to be involved with a community arts program for public school children so that more children will be able to experience the arts. Programs such as these are not taken advantage of in the south, so I would like to help to make one of these programs more popular. Having the arts integrated into a child's education allows him/her to experience a deeper level of learning. Programs that are already integrated into the school day will be convenient because children will be offered programs in schools that they would usually have to pay for outside of school.

I still want to be involved with the same things in the future, I've just decided that I would like to have a family and I don't think this would be possible with starting my own organization. I would rather work for an already existing arts organization.