Meeting with Matt

            My first meeting with Matt was slightly uncomfortable. We met with Leah as well where he told us that he had changed our internship. Instead of working on separate projects, we would both do the one I was originally assigned which I was happy about. That event was to plan an event for students that they could potentially put on every semester. The reason it was slightly uncomfortable was that Matt is a pretty awkward person. He does not talk very much so a lot of our meeting he was just sitting there quietly while Leah and I tried to make conversation. We were also confused as to why we were assigned this project as it had absolutely no connection to his company Roman Candle Tours. We were also confused as to what the guidelines for the event were. When we asked about cost, number of people expected, or anything else he wouldn't give us a straight answer and usually just said do whatever you want. It did not seem like he cared much about what we were doing or had much invested in the project at all.

            We met again the following week to pitch some of our ideas to him. We still weren't exactly sure what we should be doing but he had seemed to lean towards it having to do something with food or alcohol so we tried to have some ideas including that. A couple we came up with were a cooking class, a wine tour, or a sort of cultural "pub crawl" but with more sophistication. We ended up setting on the latter and deemed it a "wine walk". We were embarking on our spring break the following week so we agreed to research possible restaurants the week after and then met again.