The Fulton School
Hello! I hope everyone is having a great second week of senior projects! Here are some updates and what I did for the first part of my second week. I will update on Friday afternoon with the rest of my week. Tuesday I worked from 9:00-4:00. The first thing I did, was help set up museum babies, which is a storytelling program for kids 0-2 every Tuesday before the big kid storytime. I helped get chairs and put out rugs with Andy, who works the front desk of the kids clubhouse. He is really funny and gave me my tour of the clubhouse and he told me, “Yeah, you know feel free to play and interact with the kids, especially if you want to. I would, ya know, just ask the parents for permission to make sure it’s okay. Sometimes parents might not want their kid interacting with strangers, especially if he is a tall, adult man with a beard.” In case you didn’t get it, Andy is a tall, adult man with a beard. He is very nice though, and not at all creepy! Julie read for museum babies and then we had a guest storyteller for the second portion of storytime. Her name is Maria Beaver Hussman and she is super nice! She is a Native American, I forget which tribe, though. She works basically as a freelancer going around to different programs and storytelling and crafting with little kids. She is super interactive and great with children, and I think she would be a really good potential guest at one of the lower school gatherings. After the story the kids did a coloring craft. Then I worked until noon around the clubhouse interacting with families, cleaning up, and handing out stickers to kids. As I was walking in the main room to go on my lunch break, I saw Suzi and smiled and waved at her and she said, “it looked like I was having way too much fun,” LOL. And I am having soooo much fun! Anyone who acts like museums are boring and the people who work at them are boring socially awkward weirdos are COMPLETELY WRONG. Everyone I have met here is so fun and interesting! At 1:00 until 4:00 I had a staff meeting and debrief (I just know Dr. Urbano is jumping up and down once he’s read that!). We talked through some different upcoming exhibits and brain stormed titles for the LGBTQ+ exhibit coming to the museum in June. One I came up with was “Color Me Stoked,” which I would say is a pretty good title and also a reference to the 80s movie “Heathers,” which is considered an iconic movie by a lot of folks in the LGBTQ+ community. We also did this thing with our table mates where we looked at this historical photograph and came up with as many questions as we could within 3 minutes. Then we took them and labeled if they were close ended or open ended and then chose our top three and tried to turn another 3 into the opposite type of question so if it was open ended make it closed ended and vice versa. Another funny story about this was that we were asked to introduce ourselves and answer this fun question since I didn’t know a few people like Karla, Ellie, Ryan, and Maria. I had briefly met Ellie and Maria, and saw Ryan, but didn’t fully meet them or work with them yet. So, the fun question was, “What is your go to karaoke song?” This was my answer, “Well, I’ve actually never sung karaoke, but I would love to. Last year, me and my friends were going to do karaoke after our junior prom, but if you’ve ever met a teenager then you know about how good they are at coordinating and planning events,” this made them laugh pretty hard, I continued, “So, if I were to sing karaoke, if I were feeling sentimental and wanted to do a more sad song I would do “Careless Whisper,” by George Michael,” this earned some claps and whoops, and approving nods, “but,” I continued, “If I wanted to do something fun, and my dad would kill me if he heard me saying this to a room full of adult professionals, I would do “Hot Legs” by Rod Stewart.” This earned a lot of laughs and Emily K (not the storytelling Emily a different Emily. Emily K has red hair, the other Emily has brown hair) and she said, “Oh my god! I love you! You are the best highschooler, I’ve ever met, and I work with teenagers all day. Those were such good answers.”
Wednesday I work from 9:30 to 4:30. I was originally supposed to be on site at the Soldiers Memorial Museum and work as a greeter, but this got changed around, so instead I got to work in the teaching collection. The teaching collection is basically a bunch of storage items that have been obtained from the Historical Society or the archives of the museum. What I did was label each item, color code them with stickers, and enter the new information on the spreadsheet. I worked with another volunteer named Karla (different Karla then the Karla from Tuesday). Karla is retired and has been volunteering at the museum for a few years. She is really funny and made a joke about this naked lady mannequins. Kat was like, “I don’t know why these are down here!” and Karla goes, “Well there for the field trips to show the kids!” Karla used to work at Fontbonne University (RIP), which is where my mom and aunt both went in the 90s. I asked if she knew Christine Alt then Schuba and Patricia Schuba and she was like “I think so!” and I showed her a picture and she was like, “oh my god, I am pretty sure I know them!” She was the head of housing, student government, and student events. Both my mom and aunt were part of SGA and an academic sorority so she probably worked with them at some point! Today, was also my mom’s birthday, so we are going to make these like Chinese dumpling tacos for dinner and a stir fry, and maybe get some new ice cream from Dierbergs that is ooey, gooey, butter cake flavor, it is delicious! Then this weekend we will probably go out to eat and I am going to make her a coconut cream pie recipe from The Hawthorne Inn in Labadie. From 11:00 until 2:00 I will work at the key bistro as a desk greeter, and then I will have a bit of a break, and I think after that go back down to the teaching collection to sort more items. I have also started a Substack, which is like a personal blog you can post writing on (Maybe I am turning into Dr. Urbano at this point. I am attending debriefs, wearing cargo pants, and now I have my own blog, will I grow a beard next? Tune in next week to find out!) anyways there’s this writer on there that I discovered last year off of Instagram named Viv Chen. She writes mostly about fashion and pop culture so I sent her a message. She has a pretty decent following and guess freaking what? She replied to me and started following me and said that she was excited to read my content!!! AHHHHH!!!! I WAS SOOOO EXCITED AND STAR STRUCK!!!! I also discovered this week that I actually do like musicals. I have been listening to “The Heathers” soundtrack and I am convinced I could play a really good J.D. (a bad boy turned just straight crazy boy, who has severe mommy issues), Kurt and/or Ram (two really dumb and sexist football players), Veronica (the one Heather who isn’t named Heather and the main character who dates J.D.), or Heather Duke (she is the Heather who wears green, but later begins wearing red. She is definitely the snobbiest of the Heathers and very power hungry, while I am neither of those things, I do have a competitive nature and what some would describe as a brash attitude so I think I could play her really well). I sung some of the songs for my family. My dad said nothing because he was busy eating hot dogs and he loves hot dogs so that’s all he could focus on even though, angelic melodies were being crafted in the living room. My mom said it was good, but that the content of the song was awful. And my brother said, “Yeah, that was pretty good. You could probably be in a musical, after five years of vocal training!” He did add though that I could definitely get casted in plays, so now I am determined to be in a muscial at Webster just to prove him wrong. I can be a very spiteful person and competitive at times, with a natural drive to prove people wrong, which is also why I am considering minoring or even doing a second major entirely of philosophy because a lot of the people, but mostly men in the philosophy department are very stuck up! So, my goal would be to work with them and be like “Oh your favorite philosopher is Socrates or Aristotle? Oh, that’s so cute! Mine? My favorite philosopher are Diogenes because he was crazy, Nietzsche because he knew that life could feel like hell, and William “Bill” S. Preston, esq. and Ted “Theodore” Logan from Wyld Stallyns because they are two teenage California boys who have a better life outlook then weird, creepy Greek men and will unite our world with the power of their most excellent, most triumphant, non heinous, totally not bogus, harmonic music!” Then I would see what they would say. My mom also told me to “never date a philosophy major and run for the hills,” if one tries to ask me out. I can’t confirm or deny if they are little meanies yet, but only time will tell, but maybe if I do date a philosophy major he would be nice, or I could convert him to kindness, my favorite religion. I could fix him, which is honestly so bad to say, but at least it’s about an 18-22 year old man who is a philosophy major instead of Coriolanus Snow from “The Hunger Games” who is a fictional character, grows up to be a murder and dictator, who enjoys throwing kids into a death battle and watching them die, is threatened by a teenage girl because she basically is coming for his brand, brainwashes and tortures her boyfriend to literally hate her and want to kill her, and is at fault for so many other war crimes. At least I didn’t say that, unlike someone. *cough, cough, Maddy Hassan, cough*. I am just kidding and joshing around no hate, no shade, I get it girl.
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