Week 3, Wednesday

In my last blog entry, I talked about how I hoped I would have more time to work on curling ribbons and attaching them to lollipops, which would be used for a game at the benefit event. When I came in on Wednesday, I only had about 40 of them done (which means I had only curled and taped 120 ribbons). I needed a total of 200 lollipops (or 600 curled ribbons) and the benefit event was only a couple days away. When I came in, my sponsor told me that I had the entire day to work on them...and I ended up using the entire day. Although the process is very simple, it really takes a ridiculous amount of time, and I had to be careful because my sponsor wanted each one to look nice. I finally finished all of them after several hours of work and 6 rolls of ribbon. The experience was miserable, and I realize that nobody would recognize and appreciate my hard work at the benefit event. On the bright side, I think I learned a lot about the importance of patience, and I realize how much effort goes into the seemingly littlest things at a place like Fine Arts, and I feel like I have been very valuable to my sponsor. She would've had to do all that ribbon curling herself if I hadn't been there, and I wouldn't want anyone else to have to do that. Her job was a lot more pain-free because I was there.