We left the Career Center at exactly 5:30am this Friday morning, February 6th, and made it to our hotel near the airport at 3:30pm Arlington time (1:30pm Boise time/Mountain time zone) -- a cool ten hours later.
So we're zonked, but really happy to be here, and excited to be participating in Monday's Global Youth Rally, and in the Special Olympics 2009 Winter Games in general.
Dr. Caputo deserves huge kudos for arriving at the Career Center at 5:15am to take us personally to the airport. He had to be almost as tired as we were, after the Governor Academy's very successful presentation at the Arlington School Board yesterday evening.
About that School Board presentation... Andi and Chelsea came to present the 30-second spot they made for Project Unify called "I Can Hear You". It made a strong impression on the packed room, generating spontaneous applause. Andi did a great job speaking about the production process. I also want to commend Joe and Brian, along with the parents of all the students, for coming out to support the Television Production Program and the Special Olympics project.
So here's a blog I am going to keep about our experience. I will encourage Aldwin, Joe and Brian to make contributions. We've been taking some fun pix along the way, and plan to shoot some video too. In general, the fellas are going to focus on media for Special Olympics, and I am going to focus on documenting their participation.
One last thank you... to Tom O'Day, Elise Krueger and John Woodhead for the incredibly hard work they put in this past week as they helped TV Production graduates and students create commercials, music videos and animation for the Youth Rally. The media has all been posted on the Special Olympics page of the TV Production website.
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