Yesterday was much better than Monday! I went to a college fair with a steady stream of students at my table and then had high school visits with 20+ students.
Last night I met up with Annie McHale! She lives just south of downtown Minneapolis and showed me some of the local sights. We went to the Sculpture Gardens down by the Walker Musuem of Art and then drove around the chain of lakes in the middle of the city - standing water, crazy! Then we met up with some of her friends and had some pretty subpar mexican food, which I expected, but still wanted to experience to see how the midwest made mexican food. it was pretty bland, but the salsa was yummy.
Today started the national college fair at the convention center and after a weird first couple of days I got set up at the fair (350 colleges attending) and was ready for the first of the 3 sessions. Well I thought I was, but then an onslaught started! I went through 600 previews in the first of 3 sessions! I didn't have another 600 previews with me to get through the second and third sessions and started really worrying. Last year we went through 1200 previews total so I only planned for that many.
During the 4 hour break between sessions Annie came by to pick me up for lunch and we went back to my hotel to grab my last box of previews, and I tried to not to think about what I was going to do if I ran out of materials before my week was up!
Annie and I drove to the Northeast side of Minneapolis and walked across the Stone Arch Bridge over the Mississippi River! I have never been to the Mississippi and had totally forgotten that it starts in MN! There are pictures but I can't upload them until I get home.
I went back to the fair this evening when parents came with their students and it wasn't nearly as busy but there were better questions and longer conversations, and I did not go through my materials, thank goodness!
Tomorrow I should be fine, and may even get through the rest of the week in one piece!
It also was warmer the last couple of days - it was a whole 60 degrees!
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Great entries. The GPS stuff is really funny--I'll bet the male voice would have told you the same crazy stuff. How fun to spend time with Annie. As you said, "Just keep going and going and going..."
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