Aug 28 - Contact

I volunteered to be a host for La Trobe's Open Day. Basically, unlike the way our unis at home do prospective visits, the schools here just have one day a year and any interested party comes for that one day. They have tents set up where bags are handed to each student which includes a campus map and local transport map; various campus publications; housing, scholarship, and financial aid information; and information about sessions being hosted by the faculties on campus. The student (and family) then has the opportunity to walk around campus and visit faculties, get information on their degree interest, and see what our campus is like.

So at 8:15 I headed to Contact on campus to get my Open Day t-shirt (which we got to keep) and sign in for the day and then headed to my tent where the group was already stuffing bags in preparation for the 9:30am arrival of visitors. We had the North entry and it was a busy entrance! It was also a beautiful day. The event ended at 4:30 and despite a nice little lunch packed for us by the school, I ended the day starved and pooped! We did get handsomely rewarded for our contribution, again unlike my Hendrix ambassador days with no pay, with $110 worth of campus bookstore vouchers. That will pay for next semesters books and materials, as well as a book for fun along the way too.