My Tangle with the Prix Etcheverry Thing
So, I heard about this thing, the Prix Etcheverry. Saw it mentioned somewhere, maybe a local paper or something pinned up at the community center. Sounded kind of official, maybe important? Decided I should probably look into it, see what the fuss was all about.
First step, trying to figure out what it actually was. Took me a bit, honestly. Information wasn’t super clear. Had to ask around, do some digging online – well, not really online like clicking links, more like searching different community sites and trying to piece it together. Found out it was some kind of local recognition, maybe a small grant attached, for community projects or something like that. Okay, interesting enough to keep going.
Then came the hard part: getting all the paperwork ready. Man, what a headache. They wanted everything. Needed to write up a whole description of what I wanted to do, why it mattered. Had to find proof of this, evidence of that. Dug through old files, trying to find documents I hadn’t seen in years. It felt like homework I didn’t sign up for.
- Wrote the main proposal bit.
- Scanned a bunch of old papers.
- Tried to get a couple of people to write supporting notes.
Filling out the actual application form wasn’t much better. It was one of those awkward online forms, you know the type? Fields that didn’t make sense, buttons that didn’t seem to work right the first time. Or maybe it was just paper, I forget, but either way, it took ages. Felt like I was wrestling with it more than filling it out. Checked it like ten times to make sure I hadn’t messed anything up.
Finally got it all submitted. Sent it off, or clicked the button, whatever it was. And then… nothing. Just waiting. You know that feeling? You put all this effort in, and then it just disappears into a black hole. Weeks went by. I’d check my mail, check my email, hoping for some kind of update. Nothing. Started to wonder if they even received it.
In the end, didn’t get it. Got a standard letter, very polite, “thanks but no thanks” kind of thing. Was I disappointed? A little, yeah. Put in the work, got my hopes up a tiny bit. But mostly, looking back, it was just… a process. A bureaucratic hoop to jump through. Learned a bit about how these local things work, I guess. Lots of paper, lots of waiting. That was my big takeaway from the whole Prix Etcheverry adventure. Just another thing I tried.
