Flights Booked....

Its offical... the Travel and Tourism lot are going to Prague!! Wooo! We've booked the flights and the offical days that we're going are departing the UK from London Stansted on the 10th May at 16:40 arriving in Prague at 19:30, which is a really good flight i say! Then we'll be coming home on the 13th May at 20:00 arriving back in the UK at 20:55 (dont worry it doesnt take 3hrs there and only 55mins on the way back! (There is a time difference between the UK and Prague)

We were really lucky with the price of the flights as all together the price came to £759.56 which has been chargeed on Justine's mastercard, which worked out as £69.05 per person!


S x



10th January 2011

Fund Raising...

So it's the last day of term and we decided to dress up and raise money! Me and Blaise to the dressing up part the most serious and went the whole way, tinsel, tutus and everything! Others wore a Christmas and some Christmasy colours but nothing compared to Me and Blaise! lol

We decided to split the class into 3 groups and the college into small sections which allowed us to cover the whole college as every group had certain sections of the college to go around and collect money.

After a few hours of raising money, we all came back to the classroom to count the money! (how exciting!) All together we raised a total of £69.78!! which is so goood considering that it was the last Friday and the last day of term before Christmas and there was hardly anyone in compared to normal!

1 down, many more fund raising activities to go!

S x

17th December 2010

Meeting One...

Now that everyone knows what their job is, it's time to know what to do! (if that makes any sense at all lol).

Every couple of weeks we will have a meeting, which is sort of like a feedback lesson, to bring together what each group has done and found. Our first meeting didn't go too bad, could of gone better but not too bad. 

We started the meeting off like a professional meeting with someone doing the minutes (Lauren), apologies for absents and what the agenda of the meeting is. We firstly spoke about when we wanted to go on our trip to Prague as we had a 2 week slot for the trip to take place. we decided we would go the week beginning 9th May  2011 as the flights were cheap and everyone seemed happy with that that! :)

Next we went through what each team has found and one so far. Each team presented their findings which were recorded by Lauren. 

The fund raising team had come up with doing a Christmas appeal which aimed to raise money for our trip and the NSPCC. we all decided that everyone has to dress up and have a bit of fun.

Me and Gemma presented our findings of attractions and events to the rest of the group which went quite well, if i don't say so myself! We said about the prices for all the proposed activities and events but we do still need to find out the finer details like times, how many people our allowed to do the activities at one time (Segway Tour - as there are 13 of us going) so we will find that out and bring it to our next meeting.

The other groups presented their findings such as potential hostels and hotels we could stay in (Kaleigh and Lorna - Accommodation Team), how we are getting to the airport (Kristy and Megan - Transport Team) and making sure that a letter is sent out to our parents explaining everything about the trip (Lauren and Ross - Admin and Communication team).

S xx

10th December 2010

Who's doing what?

Now we've decided where we are going on our trip... the next thing to do is decide who's doing what in order to make this trip a reality. As this is a college trip, tests have to be involved! in order for us to equally and fair decide which role each of us will have in organising this trip to Prague we all had to do a self perception inventory test created by Dr Merdith Belbin. This test would show if we were an Implementer, Co-Ordinator, Shaper, Plant, Resource Investigator, Monitor Evaluator, Team Worker or a Completer Finisher. After answering a few questions we calculated our scores and my highest score meant that I was a Team worker. A Team worker is socially oriented, rather mild, sensitive, an ability to respond to people and to situations and to promote team spirit. This answer is right I think as I like to think of myself as a very good Team worker and very socially oriented (( some may say a bit too much! :) )).

After seeing who got what and abit of a chat we then had to do something with our results! Everyone had to be assigned a job role in organising this trip and with that came responsibilities! 

The job that I got assigned was to be apart of the Attractions and Entertainment Team. Im working with Gemma, which some may say is a bit odd that the LOUDEST person in the group (i.e Me) is working with the quietest person in the group (i.e Gemma) but we both get along really well and we good friends now which is what this trip is all about!

 
Our Roles and Responsibilities are : Research and book all the attractions, do an itinerary, get the group to the attractions and back and design and conduct a quiz! 

Im really happy with what I get to do because its all about having fun and making this trip fun which is Number One on my aims for this trip!

S x

26th November 2010