the calender in the office
to the left, a samba dancer costume tomas designed for his dragon float
i've been spending most of my time meeting, planning, and preparing. I'm a bit anxious to get to the doing part, we only have 28 days until the big day. We've been here for about two weeks and what we have is a few floats that have just started to been built and conceptual drafts of the pageant. i'm nervous because I know when it comes, it will come hard and fast. But none-the-less, "Ji-yo!" (Keep going!)
here is a taste of my current work load, which is not that terrible in comparison to others here: cover 5 shifts of public workshop time (which are between 2-3hours), during that time teach mask/costume making or help make whatever people dream up, create 2-3 masks samples for the public workshops, also teach a little samba dancing at the public workshop (really), create model and template for Shiou Fong Elementary, make sketches for Chung-Yi Elementary (costumes for 60 samba dancers and puppet to go with the seed theme) and sketch ideas for a big float to represent "India" for 16 Punjabi Dancers (i'm having a rough time with this ethically). And on average I get a new Parade group every other day and after Tuesday I will begin making objects for the Pageant.
oh my my.
