Cheyenne-Go Red-2.25.10
We left from school at 12:00 and unfortunately had to leave Mirko Ilic’s graphic design presentation to inspire our PSAs. I heard some of it and I saw was amazing. Violet and Ruby had to change in to skirts. Our destination was the Waldorf Astoria, an extremely fancy hotel. We took a Taxi there and split the fare four ways. We arrived in the lobby and it all felt familiar. We went upstairs using the specified elevator as directed. We got upstairs and were turned around by quite a few large mirrored suit doors with chandeliers in the hallway. Though, when a delivery man passed with a cart of packages, I asked where the Go Red packing was going on. We got into the room where a multitude of large boxes lined the side of a wall and a row of tables were set up in the middle of the room. I looked around for Amanda thinking she was a blond woman in her early 40’s. When she did come up to us and introduce herself, I was so surprised to find that she was a peppy young brunette who looked as if she was just out of graduate school. She was very accomplished and hard-working based on when Dr. Lynne Holden had told me. SHe instructed Violet to cut open the boxes with the box cutter and told the rest of us to unfold bags/ There were 1,000 of them and we stacked them up about 5-6 bags high, 10- 15 bags out from the wall and about 20-30 bags across the wall. It took us about 45 minutes to an hour to unpack, unfold and organize all the bags. We then started to put items in the goodie bags, down the assembly line. Though after about 6 trips of going down the line, around people, placing items in bags, I got the idea that 2 of us should put the 1st item, Nautica post-its, into the bags and place them on the table, people could then take the bags with post-its and go down the lists of things for each bag:
-Nautica Post-Its
-Dr. Copland Skin product
-Go Red pen
-Go Red stress ball
-Go Red Dress pin
-informational pamphlets
-Estee Lauder Lipstick
-Estee Lauder vibrating mascara
It took us about 2 and a half hours to do about 900 of the bags. We then stopped for a break and Amanda ordered pizza for us. Violet and Ruby left for a basketball tournament, and Parker and I stayed to work until 3:45 and finished all the bags. We ended up with about an extra 50 bags. There were about 6 other college students there. I was surprised that they were the ones messing up the bags and talking most of the time, I feel like the four of us were the most productive except amanda who was constantly in motion, unpacking, organizing, sorting, stacking, labeling, positioning, and wrapping. I was in awe. I want to be as headstrong and productive as she is at such a young age. I felt like at the age of 30 she would be leader of the free world! I could feel her confidence in her strong and powerful, assuring handshake. So I was extremely excited when she invited us to a gala the next day in the ballroom of the Waldorf. Unfortunately the next day was a snow day. Anyhow we went home that day not knowing about the next day. Though I was surprised we finished over 1,000 bags!!