Week of the 22nd

Notre Dame vs. Georgia Tech.

We seem to have a routine. Mondays we clean the cooler out and process the little bit of floral we get in, I also clean buckets and clean containers. Tuesdays we process some more and we begin to get a game plan for the week. Wednesdays are making orders due Thursday and Thursday for Friday and Friday for Saturday and Monday. I got to design on Friday, I was so excited I was able to take fresh baby ferns and re-pot them and then I also took and re-potted Ivy and placed the jar into a lantern and stung it up with LED stringed lights. I also spray painted lots of gold monstera leaves. I had a great time. I really love my internship. I think that we do some cool things and football season is my favorite so doing both has been wonderful.

Week of Sept 14th

After a whirl-wind of a week last week and considering that we have an away game we had a much slower week. We all took advantage of the schedule and we got major organizing and cleaning done. I continued to do pull for the week to come and we had a lot to catch up in a way because our head designer decided it was a good idea to have her baby boy 3 weeks early. The week was still great and I got to do some little designing but nothing big. The week was slow so I got the rare opportunity to spend the weekend with my family and get a head start on homework.

Week of Sept.7th

This week was awesome, football weeks are super tiring and very fast paced. The whole week was filled with pulling and prepping and getting ready for the 1st home game. We have several different events going on we have a event in the South dinning hall where we have 60 stone containers getting pit, spider mums and carnations. They are getting a huge candy bar and lots of other large decorations. The press box event is getting a giant carnation ball and then small baby button balls.
We had a western themed tent and those got gold bottles with floral, horse shoes and also had a candy bar. Then we had a family reunion that we made mason jars filled with floral for and set up lots of tables and chairs. We had the Thursday night dinner with Father John, we did a lot "farm to table" type arrangements we have eco flowers and kale and all sorts of herbs with no real floral at all. Thursday night dinner arrangements get reused for a breakfast on friday mornings. Thursday I spent the day finishing up some last minute pulls and then I got to help set-up Thursday night dinner. Friday was another day full of set ups and drop offs. Saturday was even crazier, it started with loading the trucks for all of the different campus events and making sure everyone was on the same page and that we were ready to go. After the days festivities I was assigned the tear down for that night. I was so tired at the end of the day but I felt like it was all worth it to be able to be part of something so neat. We do so many behind the scenes things for the school and it is so sur-real.