ring.That.BELL!

The west team (Kelley, Jane, Sean)


Wow. It's Wednesday... and it feels like the past three days have actually been about three weeks long from the long hours here at the office. But it will all be worth it in about a week when we launch tour!!!

Here is how my week has been so far:
Monday: Work 7am-9:45pm (2 hours of break for lunch & dinner)= 12 3/4 hrs
Tuesday: Work 7am-9:30pm (2 hours of break for lunch & dinner)= 12 1/2 hrs
Wednesday: Work 7am-10:15pm (2 hours of break for lunch & dinner)= 13 1/4 hrs

In 3 days, I have almost worked a normal-person's 40 hour/week full-time job (I've got 38 1/2!). Not to say that that is a complaint at all! I have been doing some cool stuff & talking to some really amazing people. Yesterday, we got to head over to USC to the Korean Studies Institute for a session with the director there, David Kang. It was really insightful, and also made me reconsider the places that I want to apply for grad schools (which, mind you, I will be doing from the road).

So the reasoning behind our long hours is so that we have plenty of time during the day to book screenings and then we do various trainings at night. We have been doing Mock Screenings to prepare for once we are on the road (Intro to the film, the Pitch/how to get involved, and Q&A). That is definitely a fun time (and also extremely nerve-wracking).

Now here is the current count for screenings (by region):
West Coast (Tomato*Coast) 33
Northeast (NorthPeace) 33
Southeast (SouthBeast) 28
Heartland (aka Midwest) 43

The first team to get to 50 is being treated to Chic-fil-a from our VP, Justin! In order to actually launch next week, we have to have 70 screenings booked PER ROUTE! So the next week will be full of wishing, waiting, and pestering people to get their screening agreements in! And of course, for each agreement that comes in, we get to ring.That.BELL to signify that we got another screening booked! :) So far, I have had the awesome privilege of ringing it 4 times... and I'm hoping for about 24 more times!

Sooooo... If you want to follow the West Coast (Tomato*Coast) team, you can check us out on Facebook (West Nomads), follow us on Twitter @westnomads (https://twitter.com/westnomads), or read our Blog (http://west.linkglobal.org/)!

Well, time for another mock screening!