EVENT: Event Day Part 1

The day started with a lift from Reuben as I had a huge amount of equipment to return to the University and failed to do so the day before thanks to a hangover (EDIT: A hangover that would last for the next week)

I got to the Gatehouse with Balve, Mike and Lesley to find the upstairs room locked, and Lesley pointed out that on the schedule Rob and I were supposed to pick up the keys for NE G08 and the Gatehouse, so we were already off to a good start.

I had unfortunately been unable to finish editing the Bath Film Office video and as soon as I got in the room I was busy editing that. As the CRB ambassadors arrived I continued to edit until about 10:20 when Tim Hammond called me to say they had arrived on campus. Now this was technically about 20 minutes early and I had anticipated this but failed to inform everyone else which was another example of my great management and organisation ability.

As Balve and Lance escorted the students to the Italian Garden, Lesley came up to inform me that it was too chaotic downstairs and I had to intervene, which I tried to avoid because I was still editing the Film Office footage!

When I got outside I spoke to Tim Hammond and admitted we were running ahead of schedule, he assured me that everyone was relaxed since the weather was so nice. This really helped put my mind at ease and I simply told Balve to start with his introduction to the event and begin the icebreaker in which the students had to throw a ball to each other and each student would be put in either Group A or Group B. This could have gone better because for one thing the students weren’t even in a proper circle and I don’t think the game was explained well enough for them to even understand what was happening. I was just relieved I didn’t have to throw or catch a ball, as this was the source of my most embarrassing high school moments.

Lesley asked me to check that the Green Screen room were aware that the students would be there soon and they needed to be ready. (If only there were green screens to tend to during my high school PE classes…) When I got to the Green Screen room I had enough time to ask them how things were going and to learn that things weren’t going well. Then the students arrived and Lance herded them in, (Richard Wood later suggested that at that point I should have told Lance to hold on and keep the students out until the others were ready, I told him that I would’ve but I felt that it wasn’t my problem and that I had to be in a completely different room at the time)

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