I don't even know where to begin on how to explain how awesome today was. Today was the opening day of the Exchange Cafe at MoMA!

The day started out with me meeting Caroline at her house to help bring a rolling cart to MoMA. I convinced her yesterday that she shouldn't take a cab with is and that she should just go on the subway with it an I would help her. It ended up being worth it. It wasn't that difficult to get it there. Although the workers down in the subway couldn't direct us even to an elevator that would get us to the ground level which seemed odd. Anyway, we got it to MoMA finally and started to set up for the day. We have to go upstairs to the staff cafeteria to fill up the giant cooler we have for hot water and then we have a large tea strainer that goes inside. It took some trial and error but we finally got a good mixture of water/tea/temperature. The tea we used in the beginning though seemed to be to dried out and it was no good actually which was disappointing, but we replaced it shortly after with some green tea that was much better.

Customers started to stroll in and at one point we were pretty steadily busy! It was awesome to interact with people who were adamant about what we were doing as well as helping explain to others what we were trying to do! I spent a good amount of the time in the space taking pictures of all of the works that Caroline made and that I helped in last minute assembly in. I'll have more photos of those later and link to the blog in a different post to show the making of everything that we have had to do!

Luis, Erica and Gabby came to the opening as well to see me! It was awesome to get to see them all again and it means a lot to me that they came out to support me. They are a good group of kids.

Here is a link from yesterday too!

Today was an awesome success and I can't believe that it is already here. This entire experience so far has been truly incredible. Thank you to everyone who has helped me!