Monday 23 September 2013

Today we had to shoot the final footage for the sustainability video that we were making in order to win the competition for the sustainability award. This award comprises of many aspects of your business with requirements you need to meet in order to win the award. Since our business not only recycles old clothing but also donates money to the underprivilegedwhen we buy our materials from the thrift stores around town we figured we had a pretty good shot at winning this award and so we decided to enter. We started our filming at signal hill where we took a short video of each one of us speaking about academics, sustainability, innovation, success and passion. We then took several videos at places such as the hospice shops where we buy our materials from to give the public an idea of where we source these materials from, as well as footage of the CMT and her production team that produce our backpacks for. The video was an absolute success with our fantastic video editors doing such as outstanding job (don’t tell them we said that ha ha ;) ) we were very proud and confident that we might win.

Heres the link if you guys are interested in going to check it out J (Totally worth it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlMCyjLUAdI

Sunday 22 September 2013

This was an easy Sunday for the team considering we knew we had a lot of work coming up with things such as marketing projects, our close of business report a Politics of Enterprise assignment, as well as an assignment we all figured we would take the rest while we still could and considering Tuesday was a holiday it seemed as though we were all in store for a treat of a well-deserved long weekend.

Saturday 21 September 2013       

Thrift took it easy this Saturday considering it had been a long week and the miserable weather outside permitted all of us to spend the day in bed.

Friday 20 September 2013

Today mainly consisted of lectures with David Priilaid where we watched the remaining half of a video he had been showing us called Shakleton. His aim of showing us the movie is to show us the power of strong leadership and the effect it has on the team. We all found the movie very intriguing and capturing considering that it was probably a movie none of us would ever have rented or watched had we not been shown it in lectures. The message came across loud and clear and it gave us all a good view of the effects of leadership and the importance of entrepreneurship in everyday life. After that Lisa came in to give us some hints for our exam preparation and some advice on the time of questions we would be asked and also how we would be expected to answer them because o think a lot of the students were having trouble figuring out how we could be examined on a meditation course. Her insight was very helpful and gave us good direction as to what the examiner would be looking for in our answers.

Thursday 19 September 2013

Thursdays we have Politics of Enterprise which is subject all about the law of business. This lecture today was again extremely helpful because we also have a politics of Enterprise assignment due for next week and well if we thought we were struggling on the marketing side this was a whole other ball game. Trying to understand the Law Lingo is slightly challenging as one can imagine and now trying to complete a 1500 words write up was proving to be even more challenging. This lecture did however clear some things up and tie up some loose ends.

Wednesday 18 September 2013

Wednesdays are always the same for us starting with our genesis workshop at 9 until 11 where we all move the party to our weekly group meeting where we discuss the upcoming academic assignment and decide on false deadlines in order to try and stay on top of everything because we’ve learnt the hard way how good this course is at sneaking up on you. In this particular meeting we split up the parts for the close of business assignment and starting doing some brain storming for the sustainability video that was due soon. We also knew we had a directors meeting coming up soon and since everyone had already had turn to chair a meeting it was Deans turn to chair this one which saved us a lot of arguments over ching Chong cha (which is normally how we decide who is going to be chairing). After that we ventured off to our weekly meeting with Stuart where we discussed the requirements for the close of business reports and what exactly he wanted us to do for particular sections such as the dissolution document.

Tuesday 17 September 2013

Tuesday the only lecture we have is our retailing and services lecture. Today the lecture was more beneficial than usual (because it’s always beneficial) because we have a retailing assignment coming up and they discussed the certain topics that were being examined for the assignment. This made things a lot more clear for the entire class and allowed us to get planning on all our assignments.