Friday became such a busy and, enjoyably, exhausting day that I did not get time to add my posts so I’m back tracking now, filling in the gaps and recording what happened retrospectively. Not quite in the spirit of blogging but definitely indicative of the intense experience we have all gone through in the last 12 days.
On Friday morning the race was on to get our books finished for 1pm when we intended to set up a public exhibition in our college exhibition space. Wirral Met had also invited the Lady Mayor of Wirral to come and meet our visitors and learn about our project. An extra pressure to be sure, but one which made our BYU group feel our special guests.
And so we began last minute printing, construction and binding at a furious pace and gradually books began to appear as completed objects ready for display. Around 12 pm we had enough to begin setting up the exhibition and Sunny had taken on the job of preparing exhibition labels and statements which she had been gathering off everybody from yesterday afternoon.
And then our college governors, the Principal Mike Potter and finally the Mayor arrived and I took a break in my own book construction to introduce myself and the BYU staff and students. We were really busy at this stage and it was great to see the students that had finished helping out those who need assistance and advice. It took a great weight off my shoulders and allowed me to manage our official visitors.
The Mayor spoke to many of the group and I was pleased to see how animated everyone was even though they were probably exhausted. I was told that most of the BYU group had stayed up last night until 4 am to get work finished!
By 1pm we had most of the books on display and a small group were still beavering away in the print room. Poor Heather was really pushed to complete her immense book, but finally got there just after 2pm.It weighed in at 1.6 kg, a bit more than I was anticipating!!
