I Am A Roadie

Hey everyone! It's been good first week at the office. We've been in training everyday literally from 9am with quizzing until 6pm with lecture. Today we had lecture until 8pm, it was so worth it to stay the extra 2 hours though. Jason Russell (one of the filmmakers) gave his testimony and introduced us to his wife and kids. It was amazing. Other than that we've been learning about the history of the war, how to book a screening, how to enter that screening into SalesForce (a crazy online database that has info on everyone who's ever done anything with IC), and even a session on the importance of intentional relationships with each other and our contacts. It's been a lot of information, lots of studying, and many pop quizzes.

We had this past weekend off though! Saturday we were allowed to take the vans to Pacific Beach where we hung out by the water and at outside Starbucks. It was a good time to really start to get to know everyone on a deeper level. On sunday my teammate Sean's sister and her husband and little boy Evan came by and took our team to Old Town San Diego, which is basically a touristy knock-off of Mexico but was great because we had some great team bonding time, something our regional manager Joleah is adamant about.

And tomorrow the real fun begins. We finally pick up the phone and start booking. We want to have upwards of 100 screenings in our region and about 30 have been booked already. My personal goal is to bang the gong 25 times (everytime a screening is booked a large gong is banged) Our region is split into 4 sections and we're each in charge of 17 days. My teammates have up to 4 cities in New York or Massachusetts while my section of tour is the broadest covering 5 states.

Long Island, NY: Nov 5-11
Hartford, CT: Nov 12-15
Providence, RI: Nov 16-18
Concord, NH: Nov 19
Burlington, VT: Nov 20-21

I have the last part of tour. Prior to my section we're in western Mass. Sept 13-16, Boston until Oct 10th, Albany Oct 11-13, and New York City through Nov 3rd. We get to spend Halloween in NYC which is exciting because I anticipate the city will be great on such a vibrant "holiday."

Hope you're all doing well wherever you are and I urge you to keep praying for our class, my team, and the staff at Invisible Children for the impossible feats we're going to try to accomplish on this tour and for the near future of the organization. And I'll let you in on a little secret... Obama.

Goodnight!