Chelsea's Weeks One and Two!

Elizabeth and I are having a blast with Mrs. Hermann! Her event company, Ghostlight Productions, keeps very busy, so most of the time we are running around to meet with various clients, or to check out venues. The first week we went to see the Van Sweringen Arcade (which I know Elizabeth talked about in her post), sat in on a board meeting for the International Special Event Society at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, followed along with Mrs. Hermann to a meeting at Lakeland Community College for a fundraising event, and helped to set up a fundraiser at Vocational Guidance Services! When we weren’t busy running around, Elizabeth and I were able to write a proposal on behalf of Mrs. Hermann for MetroHealth hospital, which took a lot of creative thinking and careful, but interesting writing! It was a very busy week... My favorite part of our first week was being in control of DivaBling (Mrs. Hermann’s pet name for her event-goddess self) Twitter and Facebook accounts as DivaBling’s interns, or as she more affectionately calls us, her Divalings. Keeping up with Mrs. Hermann’s witty updates on these social networking sites takes a lot of energy!

Our second week shadowing Mrs. Hermann at Ghostlight Productions was a little more fragmented. With more than half of the weekdays taken up by AP tests, and with Mrs. Hermann going to see Billy Elliot in Chicago in order to better plan the opening event for the off-Broadway production of the show in Cleveland, there wasn’t much time for event planning fun! We were able to make it out to Lakeland Community College to see a HUGE tent set up in the parking lot for their Commencement Exercises. (On Saturday, this tent was filled with more than 4,000 people!) Elizabeth and I were also able to bake it to a meeting with a teacher at HB for an event they are hosting in the fall, and helped Mrs. Hermann work out the budget and contract for this meeting as well. We’re gearing up for some exciting projects next week, so we’ll keep you posted!