Phoebe-IANSA-3/8/10

Niles, Samantha, and I went to IANSA to meet with Sarah Masters and Mark Marge.  We had to finish our presentation for how gun violence relates to women that was the next day was good.  Before we headed over to their offices we worked at the school for a few hours to add any last things to it, make changes the video, and practice.  I was a little nervous because I felt like we were unprepared and we definitely needed more practice.  Once we got to the IANSA offices we presented our whole presentation to Sarah Masters and she made many changes.  The changes she made really made it sound a lot better.  We also went over our video of women who have been affected by gun violence that are taking a stand.  We took one of our clips out because it worked out better if we just spoke about her rather than showed her in the video.  The office had many desks and there were many public service announcements around the room.  It gave me a lot of ideas about what to do for my own PSA.  There was one poster that had the statistic “1,000 people die everyday from gun violence”.  Then the whole page was completely filled with 1,000 stick figures and a few smaller pictures on the front.  After we fixed/finished our whole presentation  it made me feel a lot more comfortable because we were definitely more prepared after our meeting.  Sarah Masters then explained to us how the next day would work.  She told us we would have to arrive at that same office at 9:30 am to practice our presentation again.  She said that all the other speakers whom had come from all different countries would be there too, practicing just like us.  And that at 12:30 pm we would head over to the United Nations for the actual conference that would take place at 1:00 pm.