Just enjoying a day in the park; I'm the one on the right, the one on the left is my good friend Raluca c:
Yes, the title does sound stupid but it's a literal translation ^^" It's basically a week (Monday-Friday) when we welcome the young 'uns who're almost out of high school, to visit and see just what the college is about. It's quite a lot of work and there's a LOT of running around to be done. Oh boy, I just had to get involved.
All in all I'm not disappointed with it, it's a pretty fun experience. I was originally on the Online Graphics team but also joined the Field Team 'cause a few groupmates ditched Raluca because they suddenly wanted to attend classes instead of, y'know, doing what they signed up to do (traitors!). As in, parading the high schools and speaking to the minds of the future about why our college rocks and they should all flock to join it.
First day was...moderate: we couldn't speak to the highschoolers because the principal hadn't announced our arrival to anyone, even though we'd contacted her 5 days before coming. OK, so at least we got to give away stickers and duct-tape posters. Fun.
For the second (and last) time, we went to one of the most prestigious highschools in the country, where we had to wait for 3 other presentations to end before we could intervene =.= As in, wait from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., just sitting around and listening because the others were obviously better organized than us.
The first presentation was about some Dutch university; 'twas nothing groundbreaking. Then came one about a Romanian-American university, which was beyond boring: they brought an old teacher (the type that would ramble incessantly about their life for hours), who ruined whatever bit of charisma the main speaker had. And the last presentation was about safety in traffic - 'twas pretty entertaining, they brought a member of a local band (whom I never cared for, personally), but he had SO much charisma that it was mindbending. Anyone who can make people laugh at traffic accidents either has sociopaths for a public or is Satan himself.
Worst part is that this week was "Different Week" (or something like that, plagued by literal translation again), a week-long program running in grade and high schools which is meant to educate kids about culture and the likes. Me and other two girls went to visit the National Museum of Art on Wednesday and there were SO MANY HIGHSCHOOLERS. LAUGHING. MAKING STUPID JOKES. STARING AT ONLY PAINTINGS OF NAKED WOMEN. Sigh. If I were a guard there, I'd go insane after one day of dealing with them >_< As a consequence, 90% of this fair city's grade- and highschoolers were out and about instead of coming to school to sit their asses down and listen to us. And who could blame them, really?
And now you know why I haven't been around since February c:
