Weeks 3/4

Over break I went to Sunny Hills on Friday for 6 hours. And this Monday I worked for 7 hours.

Total hours so far: 20

On Friday Hannah and I finally got to work together for the first time. She let me choose between 2 design project because she is not ready to start the newsletter. I chose to redo the layout/ write summaries for bookmark inserts describing each of the 8 programs offered through Sunny Hills. They are adding 2 more which needed a whole new insert created as well as a summary description for the back. I re-designed the formatting of the inserts while teaching the program Adobe InDesign to myself. I also created the 2 new ones and wrote one paragraph summaries after ready large brochures on each program.
On Monday I continued work on this project I messed around with color altering which was really hard to figure out. The inserts are meant to be stacked upon each other and each one gets shorter on the stack so they are layered you can read the titles. And they wanted the value (they are all green) to get lighter as you go down. So that's what I worked on. Then I met Paul for lunch at the Civic Center. It was pretty. When I came back I was supposed to go on a tour of the campus with Hannah and a perspective student, but that got canceled. I ordered 2 copies of the book InDesign for Dummies for Hannah and I so we can learn it together. Then didn't have much else to do so I read The Great Gatsby.
My project is still on hold because Hannah has to finish the annual report first. In fact my project my be changed because the newsletter could get pushed back too far. I hope it doesn't though. After getting some experience with InDesign I really wanna do more advanced stuff with it.
In terms of the politic in the office, I mainly notice that within the Development office there are many different divisions or titles. So people are often off doing their own thing. For example, my mentor is in charge of marketing while the person she shares her office with does fundraiser event planning. Obviously I have figured out that the owner of Sunny Hills is at the top of the ladder and has final say on everything.