First Night Back

Leah C.

March 29, 2010 - 4:00 AM

I ended up arriving back in Eugene around 7:30pm, and as soon as I got back, I was glued in front of my computer screen. I had messages and emails to reply to ... all regarding Hong Kong Night. I scheduled several meetings for this week, with several people regarding specific items to discuss. For example I spent some time talking about table center pieces. What are we gonna do? Are we gonna do the floating candle idea? How will we get it passed by the fire safety inspector? Maybe its too late. Maybe we should do flowers? What kinda of flowers? What kind of vases? How much can we spend? Etc etc. I also caught up with several other committee members to discuss their progress regarding their own work. I asked about the progress of our dance, and apparently the volunteers learned 75% of the dance so far. Unfortunately not everyone is at the same level, nor are they all in sync yet.... The script was also just sent to all the performers after I poked and questioned about it today..... It was supposed to be done before spring break so that the actors had time to go over it and practice. Now we only have two weeks to polish it. Hopefully we have enough time. Many of our performers are also practicing for singing and dance parts as well. It's quite a lot to ask, but hopefully this doesn't add too much stress on top of everything. Honestly ... it's a lot. *Sigh*

At this point I'm trying to keep my head up. With only two more weeks until Hong Kong Night, I need to look over everyone's shoulder if I'm going to make this culture night a success. Thats what the president of a club is supposed to do right? I feel bad for being pushy, but communication is key and we gotta get stuff done. I'm the kind of person who has to know what's going on. My sister Sarah is the graphics designer for the club. I reminded her many times over spring break the deadline for the posters. We needed three designs to be done by Monday, but she chose to put it off until the last minute. Here she is up with me scrambling to finish the last one. We both have 8am classes tomorrow, and its already 4 in the morning. I don't know how I'll be able to function in my classes tomorrow. I have class till 9pm and I had planned to attend wushu practice right after. I guess we'll see how long I'll last.

I had a chat earlier with the vice president of HKSA. To add to the complications of everything, a few people have not been fulfilling their tasks for Hong Kong Night... This is rather disappointing. They have not been answering messages from us, nor have they done much to support their fellow teammates in our most stressful time of the year. We've talked about giving them strikes and kicking them out, but what we really need to do is to have a face to face conversation to resolve anything. Anyway. I've been touching up on everyone and it seems that we still have a lot to work on. Hopefully my Tuesday meeting with the committee will help comfort me on our progress thus far.

The next next two weeks are gonna be crazy!