Today I worked more with the indoor-outdoor trim. I finished tagging and putting the trim on hooks. 
There was also a cart full of trim. I had to order all the trim by color
Once done with that, I had to hang them onto the grid. That was the hardest part, having to choose what trims went next to each other and how to transition to the next color. Also, not everything fit on the wall.
So much trim! I had to figure out what trim was discontinued, then label each different pattern and color and put them on hooks. I also took down hooks with labels from black grids, because Kensi wanted white grids in the indoor-outdoor section.
My second day at A. Hoke Limited the other intern, Beckett, and I finished hanging the textiles for the indoor-outdoor section.
We then had to reorder another section, taking all the textiles down and rehanging them in the opposite order than they had been.
For the majority of the day, we pulled discontinued textiles. It took over three hours to pull all the textiles, and some we couldn’t find.
Once done with that, I started sorting two boxes of trim from the previous indoor-outdoor section, throwing away about half the trim since it was from a company that no longer exists. I began figuring out what trim was still available, and what had been discontinued.
Today was my first day at A. Hoke Limited, a To The Trade showroom for interior designers. After a quick tour around the facility, I helped Kensi put some new accessories out on the floor. We had four pairs of pillows, two pairs of ottomans, and three side tables to find places for. Once we did that, I labeled some of the new textile collection books, making sure every book in the room had a label.
When I was done with that, I helped another intern sort indoor-outdoor textiles by color for the new section of the showroom. She had been working on it for a while, so I just helped with the neutral colors. White, beige, brown, grey-beige, grey, black; after a while, they all start to look the same, so we had a tough time. A previous intern had been retrieving the indoor-outdoor textiles from all the other sections of the showroom, which are sorted by brand, but someone had found some still in one of the sections, so I had to go searching for any textiles made from 100% Acrylic or 100% Polyethylene.
For the last few minutes, I started helping to find textiles that had been discontinued, so we could take them off the floor so no one would try to buy them.
Last day at ADF! I scanned in more waivers, finishing through the letter G.
I also learned how to make friendship bracelets and origami. I was supposed to come up with camp activities for three different age groups, and friendship bracelets and origami were two of the activities. To make it easier for the camp councilors, I found origami patterns, friendship bracelet patterns, and coloring sheets that they could print out and give to the campers. I also learned the four different knots used in friendship bracelets, and made a page to teach the kids how to tie the knots and what they look like in the patterns.
I had a lot of fun during my week at ADF. I can’t wait for next week!
Today I got to watch one of the Parkinson’s Movement Initiative classes. They did movement activities both sitting down and standing up, and it was really interesting to watch. The class was different from what I’m used to, so it was fun to watch.
I also finished translating and put the translated text onto the website. It took me a little while, especially figuring out how to make everything the right color and format.
One of Julia’s friends at ADF told her she had brown hair, but Julia thought she had blond hair, so Julia and I had to go around asking everyone at the summer office if Julia’s hair was blond or brown. The majority of people said blond, so Julia won the hair war. And, of course, I got through two more letters of scanning waivers.
Today I continued digitizing the waivers, finishing the A’s and B’s. Julia had to go to a meeting, so I was left in the studio alone for over an hour.
When she came back, she helped me figure out what parts of the ADF website I would translate into Spanish. As not all of it is for the studios, I didn’t have to translate the whole thing. I translated the special program pages, the youth class page, the main studio’s page, and the scholarship page. The scholarship page was the hardest, since it had stuff about taxes that I didn’t know.
Near the end of the day, this super cute 4-year-old came in with her grandmother to register for summer classes. I also learned that the studio had just been slightly remodeled, and helped decide where a new picture would go on the wall.
Today was my first day at the American Dance Festival studio. First, I met Julia Pleasants, who I will be spending the week with. I learned more about ADF and the studio, before heading over to the summer offices. We left a little while after a class started, because it’s impossible to work with drums in the background. As this is the first week in the new summer offices, it was Julia’s first time in the new offices as well.
When we returned to the studio, I assisted in cleaning the toys in the lobby and took the very first inventory of the studio’s merchandise and wrote an email for the report. Julia wanted to digitize the student waivers, so I created the filing and naming systems. For the rest of the work day, I began scanning all of the student waivers onto the computer, renamed them, and placed them in the correct file folder.