I’m ba-ack…
Last week our school did this program thing called business week for the year elevens. Basically you get put into teams and have to design a new product, market it and do a computer simulation and report and stuff of an imaginary business. It’s pretty cool.
It was the best week, my group was so funny and got on really well. So well that everyone else kept going on about how our team was rigged, but whatever. My team (5!) made a product called Blemish Free Blokes and Blemish Free Beauty, little strip things that get rid of pimples or anything in thirty seconds. Which I really wish actually worked, cause ours were just strips of laminated colour paper. But whatever.
We crashed and burned at the computer simulation, but anyways… My main job was to write the report for the simulation which was sooo boring, but it was such an awesome feeling when I finished. We also did a trade display thingy, where every team set up a stand in the student centre and all the younger students came in to have a look. Ours looked so good, but Tess, who was organising all of it almost had a nervous breakdown. Kind of funny. And everyone involved is now suffering from third degree burns curtosy of the hot glue gun. But it looked great. In the trade display thing, a couple of us had to wander round and try to get people, particularly the judges to come and look at our display. It was classic. You’d go up and try to talk to the students, in the absence of judges and get the “You do realise that you’re trying to sell me an imaginary product, don’t you?” Yes, I do, but we get more points if we get people over, so for gods sake, say yes, look interested and I’ll go away.
It was such a tiring week though, cause on Thursday some of us had a thirteen hour day. That is just way too long to spend at school, no matter how much fun you’re having. Although I do think my typing is considerably improved after typing out my fifteen page report. But anyway.
So, at the end of this week, we had the Gala Dinner. We had to be dressed semi-formal, which everyone took to mean as a little bit less than semi-formal. But it was fun. I wore this yellow dress I’ve had for ages and a friends pair of high heels. Never mind the fact that I couldn’t walk by the end of the night, but they were pretty awesome shoes. Anyway, we totally cleaned up.
We won the Oral Presentation prize, I won the Business Person of the Week (White Water World pass. I don’t like water slides, but it looks pretty cool so I might as well go.) and then our group won the whole thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES! We are the champions!!
Sorry, had to gloat.
