2 Days to Go!

On Tuesday, I was thrilled to see the article in The Retriever Weekly highlighting our event. It might sound a little strange but it made the event a little bit more real. I sent out the link to a few list procs I belong to and I'm making phone calls this afternoon to push some ticket sales. After making announcements in Professor Bhalla's AMST200 class, a few people contacted me about buying tickets and I'm trying to catch-up with them. I want to sell tickets- I'm determined! Someone actually told me that all I do is talk about Club 4100. I hope you are all proud.

I was really excited to go on the radio show this morning but unfortunately it fell through. It would have been a great opprotunity but I think we've done a great job advertising. Between fliers, meetings, bull roasts, bake sales, newspaper articles...we seem to have it covered.

I found some coloring pages online for the kids! I have images of a football helmet, sports balls and some coloring pages of the Oriole Bird. I made about 100 copies total. Emily is picking up crayons during her shopping trip.

I'm sending the list of shifts out tonight and I'll print out some copies for Sunday. I also have down that Corey, Lauren, Emily, Hillman and Nick would be interested in "MC-ing" the event- or at least announcing some of the raffles.

Tomorrow (Saturday) will be surreal. I can't wait to set up for the event and to street team (finally).

My new favorite quote: "With Sinatra on the juke box and Unitas on the wall, it's always 1958 at Club 4100." I like the idea of that there is a time and feeling associated with the Club. I think it sums up exactly what we what we are trying to do at the club- preserve the place, the feeling, the spirit.

See everyone tomorrow!

Club 4100 Week (the real one)

I think last week was amazing! I was so excited to see everyone dressed in their shirts, selling cupcakes in the breezeway and making announcements during class.

I am happy to report that a few people followed-up with me after my presentation. After making the announcement in Professor Bhalla's AMST200 (both sections), a friend of mine came up to let me know she wanted to buy some tickets. I'm going to keep in contact. I would have sold them to her then but she wanted to ask a few of her friends and didn't have any money.

Speaking of money, I was surprised to see so many UMBC students with money for cupcakes and brownies. I never thought I'd see someone shell out a dollar for a cupcake (especially because in my experience, someone will complain if you give them a free one that's not their favorite combination).

I don't know if it was the t-shirts, all the time spent at the tables or the shared nervousness of presenting the project to our fellow peers...but after last week, I really felt like I was part of a team.

I'll be blogging some more tomorrow after class with my final to-do list. I can't wait to hear about the Bull Roast and other weekend experiences! I'll be e-mailing the "volunteer list" aka, "what everyone's doing and at what time" list tonight- be on the look out.

I am so excited for Sunday!

Testing

Just testing my blog...Apparently there was a scheduled outrage.

Club 4100 Week!

Well, the forecasters are calling for less than fabulous weather this week which is terribly unfortunate since we were supposed to be outside. I checked with scheduling and Mainstreet is booked for the Bookstore Street Sale all week. We can always set-up under the breezeway so no stresses.

I will be working at the Club 4100 table on Friday. I didn't sign up to bring anything but I'm going to try to bake some cookies or cupcakes to sell.

Stasi and I are planning Street Teaming sometime this week- probably Friday. We need to get information from Natalie so we can hit the streets that weren't covered and follow up with people that were interested. I'm very excited!

On Tuesday, Stasi, Missy and myself will all be wearing our Club 4100 t-shirts and making an announcement during our AMST 388 class with Dr. Orser.

I went to the bank to pick up some quarters for laundry- I'm thinking I'll probably have to wash the event shirt a couple times this week.

I think it's kind of interesting that this is the week we chose being that Saturday was our original date.

On a side note: I can't wait to get together with Missy and Emily to work on Kids Committee stuff. Emily has able to get a hold of some awesome games/ toys/ equipment and even some give-aways with absolutely no cost to us! I am going to stop by Commonvision today to see if we can get some stickers printed (to hand out and place on the water bottles).

I'm sure I'll be posting as the week goes on...

P.S. Below is a picture of Nick. When I did a google images search for "Club 4100" his picture/ blog appeared on page 2. Awesome!

"Kids Kommittee"

We need to get together an finalize the activities and how many volunteers we will need for each thing. There are a lot of ideas and some event can run themselves (like hula hooping) but some (like bobbing for apples) will need to be monitored extensively.

When can we get together? Thursday evening works best for me. Let me know. Post on my blog! I will be checking!

Collection of Thoughts

My thoughts are all over the place right now so I figured the best way to communicate what I was thinking (and feeling) would be in list format. Right now, I'm all about this project so if this post isn't enough for you, feel free to give me a call. We can talk eachother's ears off.


1. E-mail updates have been nice and I've been making great use of everyone's blog- everyone who is posting anyway.

2. Props to Emily- her updates have been extremely uplifting! I was happy to see the list of activities for kids. I was looking at a lot of that stuff but it would have been SO expensive to purchase. I had no idea that she had all of the supplies available to her and that we would be able to utilize it. We even have give-away water bottles.

3. I feel good knowing that I am working on Kids Activities (aka the Kids Kommittee), rather than just event planning. I like having that focus. I wish I would have had it earlier.

4. I read the announcement on blackboard about last Tuesday. I had no idea when blogs were "technically due" each week. That's probably why my blog grade it so low.

5. I am so upset that I'm unable to make the CCBB meetings because stories from those outings have been my favorite part of this class. Hearing about Betty Welley was awesome ( I can't wait to meet her) but that one about Patricia Willis and her husband just melted my heart. These are the people that we are doing this project for! I can't even tell you how exciting it is! I feel like reaching out to people like this will mean success for the project.

6. Speaking of success: I know that we can make this project successful without big name sports players or Oprah. We just need to make sure our efforts are in the right places. Simliar to the CCBB community association, I think churches and other organizations that have reached out to Melanie should be contacted. Maybe we can put something in their bulletions.

7. I want to go street teaming and I can't go on Sunday! If anyone wants to go another day, please let me know. I'd be more than happy to cover ground that isn't hit on May 3rd! Natalie- Do you have a list of streets that have been covered if I want to go on my own time?

8. Next week is Club 4100 week. Is it just me or did this semester fly by? We have less than a month until the event!

9. I am going to try to get some UMBC "stuff" donated for the raffles. Why didn't I think of that earlier?

10. I will be following up with the Legislative Representatives from District 31 (where the Club is located). I sent letters but I want to personally call their offices. I hope they are as receptive as the people in the community.

11. I know that I am using an obnoxious amount of exclamation points in this post. I'm excited- really excited!

12. If anyone needs help with what they are doing, please feel free to give me a call. I know everyone is busy with, well everything (tis the season) so if you are feeling stressed, want to vent or would like some help... let me know!

Club 4100 Week

I called Mrs. Harmon in the AMST office today. She said that she would take care of the scheduling for our Club 4100 Week. I told her to get space reserved for the following schedule:

Monday, May 4
Tuesday, May 6
Wednesday, May 8

I asked her to reserve the Commons Terrace on each day from 11am- 1 pm. If it's raining we can move to the breezeway.

I requested one table and two chairs.

We are not guaranteed a space but be thinking about if you are available. This is a total of six hours. I think we can all handle working one.