Back to the History Museum: World’s Fair Opening Weekend (4/27 & 4/28)

Saturday, 4/27:

I arrived at the museum at noon and worked until 5:00. My first job was to be a gallery attendant at Coloring STL, which entails greeting visitors, answering questions, and erasing any writing. There were three families who must have been all related who had like six kids a piece, these kids were going bananas. They were writing tons of stuff on the wall like ”skibidi toilet,” ”sus ohio,” and hate messages geared toward Taylor Swift, drawing dead stick figures, and two girls were taking out all the red and pink markers and leaving them on the floor! So, originally any time they went to another part of the gallery I would erase it, but then they just did it again. So, I channeled my inner tortiose, meaning ”slow and steady wins the race,” a.k.a. let them draw then leave and then finally erase everything. Then there was a teenage boy who reminded me exactly of Sam Leeker. DEAD RINGER. I think he had a crush on me and I just was not in the mood for a suitor, although he was quite funny. For the rest of my shift, I worked as a greeter downstairs, where it was pretty slow.

Sunday, 4/28:

My first job Sunday was to help out at the floral clock craft until noon. After that I will just be greeting people downstairs. I imagine it will be a slower day down here, so my goal is to finish reading ”The Road” and try to write some.

I am also feeling much better mentally than I was at the beginning of the week! I think I have realized that highschool will soon be over and that while it hurts and is frustrating I won’t be dealing with it much longer when I head off for Webster next year. I hope that the people I meet in college genuinely like me for being me and treat myself and others with dignity and compassion. I haven’t had much time to write, but I have been helping my mom prepare the senior picture frames for the sports banquet. I never realized how much work goes into them and she really puts a lot of thought into the gift!