Oct 14-16

by Lana W.

Location

AAC is located at the Radisson Hotel on 700 Elm Street, Manchester, NH. It has a lot of banks and restaurants surrounding it. The Radisson Hotel is located directly across the street from a city bus stop, and two blocks from the Boston/Concord Express bus terminal. It’s surrounded by a big park.

Place

Inside the hotel, there's the dealership room where a ton of people set up stuff for others to buy, mostly anime-like stuff like pins and posters. There are a bunch of ‘Salons’ where they hold panels, those are scheduled performances with a group of people running it. They can be interactive with the audience or all scripted. Right beside the dealership room, there’s what we call the game room with a bunch of games like DDR and Guitar Hero.

Right outside of the hotel there's a park you walk into with not many trees. It was sunny but cold so we didn’t go out there much. There were mostly pigeons flying around too. There was also a big rock in the middle of the park. It was way too big to even nudge.

AAC Day 2

Me and my friends moved all over the place all day. I met up with two of my friends at 9 in the hotel lobby then we moved and met up with 3 other of our friends. After a few hours, I met up with my best friend Ash. We went to a photoshoot and I met some other friends there. After that I went to a panel with Ash. After a bit, she had to leave so I met up with my two friends, who basically act like my parents. I left them for a bit to go to another panel but I met up with them again afterwards.

I was there Friday Afternoon, Saturday, and Sunday.