The upshot...

Well, it's all over. It's amazing how a person can spend months building up to a certain day and then feel slightly bereft, because a day is only 24 hours no matter how you shake it.
Ed Formal is over and I feel bereft. Not in a weepy, unhappy kind of way, just in a gently missing kind of way.
The evening was AMAZING; from an organizer's point of view, it could not have gone any better. Dinner wasn't right on schedule but everyone got to eat, so there were no complaints; the music was good even though the DJ didn't stick to the playlist I gave him, and the professional photographer took hundreds of pictures. Both Don Dippo, the Associate Dean of Education and Steve Sedran, FESA's president, gave great speeches despite the lack of attention coming from one particular side of the room. Even the seating plans were relatively uneventful, again with the exception of one particular site.
We sold raffle tickets and gave away some gorgeous prizes, photos from the school in Kenya we support as well as several pieces of African art, and finally, everyone was very vocal in how much they enjoyed themselves.
On a sad note, there were a number of thefts committed at the event, one of them involving my own faithful pink Kodak V803 digital camera, so bye-bye pictures. My friends have been super about sharing their pictures with me, but it's not the same. I'm eyeing a Canon SD1200IS (yes, the one from the commercial with Avril Lavigne) as a replacement, but I'm going to have to cut into my Europe fund to get it. I can't go to Europe without a camera, after all.
There will be more pictures eventually, but for now I have to focus on my last 3 days of placement, my final evaluation, applying to more boards and cleaning my disgusting sty of a bedroom.

Forever in blue,

-Laur