Start: 9:45am
End: 5:00pm
Hours: 7.25
I arrived at the Met Guild at 9:45am and after meeting up with my mentor Lacey and being introduced to a few other members of the Community Engagement Department, we all went to the Opera Learning Center (OLC) to go to the Tour Guide Volunteer's orientation. Even though I'm not a tour guide, they invited me to sit in and it was really interesting to see that each and every single thing about the tour was carefully looked at by Stuart, Lacey, and Elspeth, who are all in the Community Engagement Department with me. Afterwards, I got acclimated to my desk (I forgot to take a picture of it! Next week.) and Lacey went through all of my passwords and phone extension stuff. Then Kyle, one of the fellows at in the CE Department, gave me a tour of the office and we ended the tour at the OLC where we had to reorganize the furniture in the room for a program called Music for Aardvarks where this guy with a guitar comes in and sings to babies (below is a picture of the room reorganized).
Kyle is only about five years older than I am, so we got to talk a lot about college and he was really knowledgeable and kind. After we came back, Kyle and I printed out signs leading to the OLC and the Music for Aardvarks program and posted them accordingly. Lacey then let me look at the video archives that the Guild had and encouraged me to watch a lecture by a woman named Jane Marsh. I soon realized that Jane Marsh was my cubicle neighbor! And not only was she my cubicle partner, but, as I was to realize, she was also VERY knowledgeable in all things musicology and music history, and I really enjoyed her lecture! Even though she seemed a little busy, I made it a point to tap her on the shoulder and compliment her on the lecture of hers that I was watching, and she seemed very happy to hear that. My mom packed me lunch so I just ate in the Juilliard cafeteria.
After lunch, I was invited to sit in on one of the CE Department's meetings. At first I didn't say much because they were settling issues from their previous meeting so I didn't really get what was going on. Then they started talking about a new issue which was getting feedback from the Guild members about their lectures. Working on Student Council, we had a project like this last year where we sent out a survey to the student body about teachers and the flipped classroom. I was able to give the CE Department a lot of good advice and they all seemed to take whatever I had to say into consideration which I really appreciated. I also took good note of the way that Stuart led the meeting; he made sure that everyone participated so that he wasn't the only one talking and wasn't afraid to assign other people besides himself with assignments.
By the time the meeting was over, there was only about and hour and a half of my day left. Lacey assigned me a small task of inputting some information onto the Met Opera calendar. Because of this, I learned VERY basic HTML and got to input all of the dates of upcoming Score-Desk dates which is when people can buy tickets to sit at a desk during an opera and read from a score instead of watching the opera. It was a great first day, and I'm looking forward to next week!
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