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Our last day…
…sniffle.
I’m a stange mixture of really excited and sad. One side of me can’t wait to get home and the other side loves California and doing awesome fun things. Blegh.
So today didn’t start out too well for me. At all.
I went to bed last night at 2:15am, knowing that I had to be up at 6:30am in order to shower. When I woke up, the House of Blues was still haunting me and I slowly zombied my way through showering and piling into the van. The long and short of it is I felt extremely nauseous and ended up being sick in the van (although I got it all in a cup like a pro). It was a horrible mixture of extremely disgusting and embarassing but Hohle, Gwen, Sarah and Alexandra were awesome and helped me struggle through my horrible morning.
We headed for Alliance Hollywood, which I was actually kindof excited to hear about, and I spent the first half of our discussion with the speakers feeling horrible. I ended up missing most of our time with them (as I spent it either standing in the bathroom contemplating being sick again, or sitting on the stairs trying to will myself better with fresh air) and I’m a little dissapointed.
But I did get some awesome information from the time I was listening. Essentially, they sound like an extremely forward moving group of individuals that use the entertainment industry to push important issues. Their hot button issues right now include: food and water standards, educational reform, homelessness, human trafficking, and a “green” standard. They approach these issues through a variety of ways including public service announcements, television programs, and celebrity help. The founder, Nomiki Konst, was extremely passionate about their mission and it was really great to hear her talk about something that was clearly very important to her.
She works with several writers and producers in the LA area who attempt to convey the issues in their work in such a way that it will resonate with the audience. The more the issue resonates the better. Alliance Hollywood wants to make a difference and that can only be made possible if they have support. Overall, the meeting was informative and I wish I had been able to pay attention for more of it ):
Fortunately, I was feeling a lot better when we left and was able to sit in the car without feeling quite as sick a before. We dropped Anna off at the airport and headed to lunch at this cute little plaza. Most of the group got pizza and it was delicious. We headed back to the dorms and Alexandra and I “tanned” in the grass for an hour. It was relaxing and gorgeous outside :)
Alexandra and I proceeded to pack up our entire rooms and then we ran out of things to put our strange amounts of energy into, so we ran around and sang obnoxiously loud for a bit. At around 7 we headed to the Spectrum for the last time to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. I split some fried mac and cheese with Alexandra and ordered what was supposed to be a small ceaser salad (but it was effing MASSIVE) to nibble on before CHEEEESECAAAAAAKE. I got a cinnamon apple struedel swirl cake thing and it was delicious.
The ladies met up for one last girl session and called it a night.
Goodbye California, hello Texas! -
