Sausage Sizzler
Today happened to be the first day of the SkillEx, a National Skills Competition participated in by students on different trades all over NZ. Our polytech is hosting this year’s 3-day competition for the first time ever as it’s always been held up in Auckland.
I never really knew much about this and so when our boss voiunteered the team to help I was like - duh! We got our shirts two weeks ago which had "ask me" printed at the back.
This morning, with two workmates, we went down to see the coordinator, who we heard have been very stressed the last couple of weeks because of the preparations. Sort of reminded me about my own experience with CFO activities like Presidential Awards, Info Conference and Seafarers’ Convention years ago. Anyway, we were instructed to go around to see what’s happening and then take our post and guide the students as they arrive.
So for 3 hours, me and another workmate manned B Block and directed busloads after busloads of students (yeah, the sometimes unruly teeners) to the registration area. It was a tiring job though not as tiring as going home midnight to madaling-araw during the seafarers’ gig. Good thing, a real nice guy from work offered to buy us a drink so we had a hot chocolate for free (i should remind myself to return the favor at some stage).
Then at around 1150am, my workmate asked me to check on the sausage stand which our other workmate was supposed to be manning with another lady from another unit. When I went there, they’ve started grilling sausages and there were already some students waiting to be served.
Since my workmate had to go back to the office for a mid-day meeting, I volunteered to take over (though I thought I could leave after 12). Anyway, I got on with the job and for an hour I grilled sausages and distributed these to hungry students, some of which have gone back for second and even third helpings. As it was lunchtime and as a reward, I had eat one myself. That was lunch. At 1pm, we packed up as all the sausages have gone. And I was tired. And smelled like grilled sausages. Unfortunately, since I didn’t plan to be involved in doing the sausage sizzlers, I didn’t bring a spare shirt. I apologised profusely to my workmates when I went back to the office.
I was tired and hungry and came back to a lot of work in the afternoon. But I didn’t mind as I had fun. And I felt proud of what we did.
So when I left the office at 530pm, I went to the video shop and grabbed 5dvds to watch for a week and went straight to First Choice because I couldn’t bear to cook dinner anymore. I had dimsum and beef brisket (which i didn’t finish). I got home around 7pm and prepared myself for a relaxing evening (read: watch recorded Prison Break and SVU).
And then…
tulog na lang ako…may pasok pa bukas. pero at least di na ako assigned to help sa SkillEx. daming dapat gawin…
such is life…
