Exhibition day – 24th of May

When we woke up in the morning it was raining heavily and black clouds covered the blue sky. Hmmm… plan b, plan c, plan d??? It did not look good for an outdoor exhibition. We managed not to panic but decided to postpone it a bit and cross our fingers for the sun.
It helped a lot. About an hour or two later the clouds were gone. We jumped in a taxi with the party tents and butterflies in the stomach. It was the ending of almost two month of work, it would be public and we had told people to come – even the minister of culture would show up.
We started to put up the tents and one by one our journalist showed up and wanted to help. They have been so nice.
Hedvig and I picked up all the photos we had been preparing the day before… we were very exited about how it was going to look.
We had arranged with Budda bar that they could put up a bar if they wanted to. Guess we had expected a little fridge and some cold sodas, but suddenly several trucks arrived with tables, drinks etc. we couldn’t stop laughing.
To be honest we were not too proud of the final settings. The message and the process leading up to the exhibition was great, but I guess our budget for the exhibition became very clear to us. (My aesthetic heart was crying) Never the less the students were proud of their work and showed it to friends and random people passing by. We had really managed to create ownership around the project, and for that we were very happy.
The culture minister’s right hand showed up. Anders and Søren had a meeting with them and they decided to support the project with 500 KM (ca. 2000 kr.) They were very interested in the project and we asked if they would support a student organization with focus on education. We got positive response and will pass the contact on to Vejle Municipality; LDA and our Journalist.
Around 4.30 we took the exhibition down again. We have no idea about how many people who had been there, but we had finished our project and reached our goals.
It had been a pleasure to work with the students. We were happy and tired.
We celebrated the evening with a steak at our favourite restaurant Laguna.
Hedvig and I crashed on the couch when we got home. Søren and Anders had some interesting conversations with the neighbour about the war between Belarus and Finland in the late seventies. ???????