Week 13 Check-in!!!!

Well it is the week of Visions and boy have I been busy!  I have been working with Simone the last couple weeks trying to tie down the final schedule for volunteers.  We ended up using mostly ACE members and Visions7 students for volunteers.  I think we will have a really good group full of enthusiastic students eager to help and to experience the inner workings of running a film festival.  The schedule was a bit tricky to figure out with all of the individual schedule restrictions, but Simone and I figured it out.  We met at the library and discussed different options.  There was only one issue with volunteers so far which caused me to switch a few schedules around.  However, I think everything is now set.  I sent out the acceptance letters to all of the volunteers and included a schedule of the entire day as well as their specific shifts and contact numbers.  So far, I have not received any question emails back from volunteers so I think my message was clear.  If not, they all now have my phone number so they can reach me with ease.  I also sent out the not accepted letters, which was tough.  However, the people that weren’t accepted as volunteers still have a couple years at UNCW so hopefully they will get the chance next year.  I made sure to express how much I wanted them to all still attend the festival so hopefully they will all come!  Tomorrow is my last presentation to the class about volunteers in which I plan to go over the schedule and make sure everything is crystal clear.  It is going to be an insane week and I am so excited.  I cannot believe it is finally here and we get to see all of our hard work in action.  I am confident that this years Visions festival is going to be excellent.  Here we go!