A Journey Through Hollins Reflection

Our event was held on a beautiful saturday afternoon. During our last class meeting before the event we were concerned that people would have difficulty locating our building, our original idea was to find a chalkboard to put outside advertising our event, but i was unable to locate a chalkboard. I decided to go with a balloon bouquet with information on one of the balloons, i think this idea was helpful in drawing attention. We had no complaints of difficulty finding the building.  I was surprised to find that many people showed up early for our event and were extremely interested in the walking tour. I would say we had at least 25 people sign in on our log, and a pretty decent size group went on the walking tour. It was exciting to present the information we gathered to the community. De’Andre did a great job catering our went and I heard a lot of compliments from the attendees. Zachs presentation of the website went very well and people seemed to enjoy the interactive aspect. Most people really came for the tour though. During our entire event i took a lot of photographs to document this great experience. I still have to edit them but i think i got some great shots, especially during the tour. The tour was exciting, and it was great to see in person all of the buildings we did our research on. I noted that this tour was almost completely different then our original tour with Curtis. We went to a lot of new places. We ended at Hollins Place which was a great way to end the event. De’Andre and Curtis did a wonderful job for the open mic portion and we even had some community members participate. This was a great experience for one of my first UMBC classes and I actually hope to take it again as the higher level class for my graduate degree.