I'm back with my very first post on my life as an RA. This year marks my second year in Residence Life, but my first year as a freshman RA. This is both an exciting and terrifying change for me. I feel as though this really is the RA experience, but it is very different from my junior living experience last year as a first-year RA.
This month I'm going with an UP theme for my door tags and bulletin board. While I do have two bulletin boards, (the smaller one is my update board), the bigger board, pictured above, is an introduction board to give my residents a bit of a taste of who I am before they meet me. Not to mention, that UP house in the top left corner? Yea, I hand-made that. Beat that.
If we zoom in a little on my hand-made house, you'll see me... or is it Russell? It's both! I put my head on Russell's body. It's a wicked old picture (about 3 years), but it was the only one I had on me at the time! I gave up a little on the porch, which you will notice is quite intricate if you look it up, but I spent a heck of a lot of time on putting this together, so that one little detail wasn't endgame for me.
I kept it pretty basic with my door tags (they do not have names on them yet, since I don't get my roster until tomorrow night!!), but I think they will suffice. I hand drew and cut out each and every one of these dang balloons, cut out every one of the characters and backed them on cardstock (that I also had to cut out), and taped them together with a piece of ribbon. Easy as pie, but super time consuming.
My fingers are crossed that these stay up through the month and that my hard work doesn't get ripped down, but realistically speaking, that chance is probably slim. Regardless, I'm proud of the work that I've done.
Catch ya next time!
Abby
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