The joys of envelope stuffing

When you think interning, there are three menial jobs that come to mind: getting coffee, photocopying, and mail outs.

Now, fortunately, I have not had to do much, if any, of the first two. Today, however, was the first massive mail out that required major amounts of envelope stuffing. The Biennale starts in a couple of weeks, so invites to opening week events needed to be sent out. Now I assumed that there would be alot of mail involved, but today 20 000 invites were packed, to be sent out to over 3000 people! And this was only to the people that RSVP'd and doesn't include the benefactors or ambassadors of the Biennale. So wow!

I was doing the international list and it really gives you an idea of just how far an event of this type reaches. Places I had guessed - New Zealand, the UK, North America, Europe, parts of Africa. But Lorestan and the Kyrgyz Republic?? Sorry, where?? (I googled it - Lorestan is in Western Iran and the Kyrgyz Republic is in Central Asia, bordered by Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China - if that helps! Learning a bit of geography too!)

It's great to think that so many countries get involved (even if it did mean my list for invites was 35 A3 pages!), giving the Biennale a real international flavour and bringing a whole range of knowledge and experiences to the table.