N-ever lose track of your fellow ITO or advisers while walking the streets.
Y-ou are the luckiest person to have these opportunities.
C-are a lot if you want others to care at all.
Just three of the many things this past weekend taught me.
Friday started around 2:45 in the morning Iowa time and ended around midnight New York time. What happened in between?
Lunch at John's Pizza (the best), a meeting with Alex Sarian
(go check out his TedTalk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56GBnm3zdzg), a grand tour of Lincoln Center complete with a spotting of John Lithgow, my first subway ride, and admiration of incredible theaters, and lovely dinner with the ITO board and advisers.
The evening ending with PiPPiN--my favorite, and most recently performed, musical. Following the show we got to go ONSTAGE (I know, I know, crazy) and meet Kyle Dean Massey and Rachel Bay Jones, both who are proud thespian alum. Left me speechless.
The fun didn't stop after Friday. On Saturday morning the group had breakfast with the awesome Jason Daunter, then spent the day primarily in the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS office. After a full day of work, a yummy dinner with Alex Mitchell, a previow Communications Editor (from Iowa!), we headed to see "The Country House," ending our second day in New York with laughs and tears and peanut m'n'm's from the concession stand.
Sunday, our last day in the city that never sleeps, was one I will never forget. The Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Flea Market in Shubert Alley was absolutely incredible. I had never seen a street so crowded, had never dreamed of meeting so many thespian alums from around the world (even from Argentina!), and had never imagined our team could raise $3,424.88 for such an amazing cause in only one day. We CARE!
I-ncredibly driven individuals.
T-he best friends anyone could ask for.
O-n their way to HIT THEIR MARK.