8 April 2013

8 April 2013

Tomorrow is a big day for us, it is our cake sale 2- so nerve racking!

You can only imagine how today went; it was chaotic to say the least. For starters, we all had a marketing assignment to hand in so most of us were trying to find a printer that actually works to get that in on time, and so that we can go ahead with our cake sale preparation. We delegated certain jobs to everyone a while ago, so everyone went off to complete their tasks. Whilst Sam and Teboho stayed on campus until about 4pm to be available for when the fridges got delivered, Kim was out fetching the burgers and doing the float, Murray was off to Pesto Princess fetching the delicious pesto, Shea and Sarah went to do some last minute sauces shopping and went to fetch the rolls, Dean went off to find us a grill (which we still had not organised) and sort out Monster and then we were all supposed to meet on the Jammie again at 4pm. Unfortunately we did not even have time to meet on the Jammie and chat about tomorrow, so we all had to send each other messages finalising what to bring etc.

Sam and Teboho are spending the whole night chopping onions, and the rest of the team members are spending the entire evening pre-cooking 800 burgers, enough to put one of burgers for life! We realised about an hour ago that we still in fact do not have a grill for tomorrow because Deans father is not so keen on lending us his again (due to the state we left it in last time- I don’t blame him) so Dean is busy trying to sweet talk his dad into lending us the grill, crossing fingers! We also hit another major disaster, we had collected the rolls at about 6pm this evening and realised the rolls were in open boxes and actually were not packaged- meaning they would be as solid as a rock the next day.

In a flat panic, Kim went to Spar and bought the packets that they package their rolls in so that we could put the rolls into the packets to prevent them from going off. Sarah and Murray, who are spending the night on the Jammie Plaza to keep watch over our fridges and our market space, are going to have to spend the entire night packaging these rolls into packets whilst the rest of us precook these burgers. Needless to say, we have a VERY long night ahead of us. We have learnt a lot from today, firstly that communication is key because half of us did not know where everybody was and who was doing what- therefore it lead to some last minute planning which created stress and tension in our group dynamic. Another lesson we have learnt today is how important it is to plan ahead- we left everything to plan the day before cake sale which did not work out well, therefore in future we need to plan ahead! Sweet dreams everybody!