Monday, 11
March 2013
So if I thought my Two Oceans training
was going behind schedule, this day made me believe that 21km, if not anything,
is quite possible.
We had both out directors’ report and
our cake sale evaluation report to hand in by 3pm, plus our regular finance
tutorial by 11am. This would have been completely do-able, had we not been
students with regular lives and friends. The weekend magically flew past in a
flurry of 21sts, family commitments and the Argus Cycle tour to the point that
it was Sunday at 3pm and we hadn’t come close to finishing. This brought great
comfort to me, Shea, being the one nominated to chairperson the first directors
meeting. As though the thought of speaking to a room of well-established
business executives wasn’t daunting enough, let’s do it without being properly
prepared.
But we did it... all of it. Woke up at
5am to finish the finance tutorial, attended our compulsory BIC lecture and by
2pm had had 3 group meetings in order to complete all of the tasks at hand.
Coming from Stellenbosch and therefore not being completely understanding of
the printing system just yet, in hindsight it probably would have been a good
idea to not leave all of that for the last hour. Because by then it’s a little
bit late when you find out that: although you’re working in the library, the
printer is in Leslies Social, the binder place is outside the library and the
place where we’re meant to be handing all of it in is back by the Leslie
Commerce.
45 stressful minutes and copious amounts
of sweat later, we handed them both in. It was all I could do to not pass out
right there outside Nashleys office.
Here’s to initiating the ‘day-before’
rule: where everything has to not only be finished, but bound, the day before
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