Saturday, August 18th:
This was Freshman move-in day on campus. Shannah had given all editors that would be in Lakeland certain assignments to take pictures and/or video of during Freshman orientation. We were all on the scene in this one. I got out to the campus at 9:00 AM. To begin, I headed towards the girls dorms, JR and Spivey. I took a few photos there, getting a couple good shots of Dr. Kerr, but there seemed to be less activity and excitement there than I expected. So I went over to the boys dorms. Along the way I got some photos of the incoming girls with their families unloading some cars. Once I made it to the boys dorm, things were unfortunately still pretty dead. I got photos of people unloading their belongings, pictures of them walking into the building, a couple in the halls, but for the most part no one seemed too excited to be there. :( Then it started raining, which just made matters worse and limited my photo opportunities. After all of this, I decided to call it a day at 11:30.
TOTAL HOURS: 2.5 Hours
Monday, August 20th:
It was move-in time again! This time I was assigned to take photos of Lake Morton apartments. I expected a lot of fun and excitement! I got out to the apartments at 11:00 when check-in began, however there were only a few people moving in. I followed one girl and her mom as they moved in some things and got some shots of them. Then I met a man and his daughter and her friend and got some shots of them. But after about a half hour with these families, it seemed pretty deserted. So I headed to my sister's apartment and tried to get some shots of her moving her and her best friend while they moved her belongings in. After about 15 minutes of that I gave up on them and decided to wait around for a rush to come through. Later in the day I checked out the apartments again and there weren't many more people to be seen. It was very stagnant, but I continued to get shots of the few that I could. It was tough, but I managed to get a few usable shots.
TOTAL HOURS: 1.5 Hours
Tuesday, August 21st:
It was the Bingo Extravaganza! The final night of orientation and the first night to really intermingle with all classes at FSC was here and surprisingly people were pretty excited. I was told that this Bingo game was from 8-10 so I arrived at 8. They seemed to already be in the swing of things so I'm not positive when it actually kicked off. However I spent the entirety of the rest of their game circling the room in Ordway getting shots of people and trying to make Bingo look exciting! Haha. It was actually surprisingly much easier than it sounds and I was pretty satisfied with my result. They ended their game at 9:00 and everyone headed out around then.
TOTAL HOURS: 1 Hour
TOTAL HOURS EARNED: 5 HOURS
