The Diary of a Traveling Umbrella: Annie Ojile Nerone
Photo of Annie with the brella in Milan, Italy. Captured by Andrea Tamburrini
This interview is a part of a new series that highlights the story of the Traveling Umbrella. Each project participant is mailed the Traveling Umbrella and asked to keep it for about a week. They use it as a photography prop before they mail it on to the next person on the waiting list. Learn more at:
www.TheUmbrellaThatTraveledTheWorld.com
Participant: Annie Nerone
Location: Rome, Italy
Find Her on Instagram: @scooteromatours
Interviewed by: Rachel Fergus
Meet Annie Nerone, a Story of Global Community
“I used the umbrella during the #WWIM!! Worldwide InstaMeet in Milan! I was so excited to have received the umbrella and the timing coincided with the InstaMeet so I thought why not bring it up to Milan with me. It was most definitely a conversation maker. Of course I already knew many people at the InstaMeet but since there was a massive turnout the umbrella was a way to meet people within the community. Once I started talking about my friend Jill back in my hometown and how she sent me the umbrella and how it even had a hashtag everyone smiled and immediately accepted the cheerful umbrella & the backstory into the Italian ‘community’! What was once born as a colorful prop truly has become part of the Instagram community and literally has traveled the world. How amazing is that!”
Annie shared the fun of being creative with the umbrella by bringing it to the Milan Instameet, Here, @psychodreaming gets into the fun as well. Photo by @neumarc
“Just want to say even though I live abroad I am so very proud to be connected to my home state and in many ways be part of the Minnesotan Instagram community. They are truly an amazing group of people and I am so very happy I’ve met them all through this incredible little app. Seriously I didn’t know one single person from this community before Instagram. How incredible is that!?Instagram brings passionate, like minded people together.”