Prefect Evaluation Time!

The day had finally come when the head students and Mr Coughlan sat down and looked through the Prefect evaluation forms that were done at the end of term one and the beginning of term two (for those late people!) After English first, Mr Coughlan took the four of us to Servo Cafe up the road. We saw Faber’s mum there and ordered our drinks. We all got hot chocolates apart from Mr Coughlan who got some form of coffee. You know, I still don’t quite understand the different types of coffee. I’m sure people have tried explaining to me the differences but the only thing I can remember is that ‘white’ means with milk and ‘black’ means without milk. And I only found that out on the plane to Christchurch last year when the flight attendant asked me what drink I would like. Oh unless that was tea… is it possible to have a black coffee? Anyway, then there are all the different variations of latte, cappuccino, mochaccino… way too confusing. That’s why whenever I go to Starbucks with anyone else I just get whatever the other person is getting. But anyway, while we were waiting for our drinks to arrive, we sat down at a table and started discussing how we thought this year’s Prefect group was progressing. Obviously I cannot repeat everything that was said at the meeting but rest assured that the general overall feeling wasn’t too bad (to all you Prefects who are getting worried!).

Luke brought up a few ideas that he came up with for the Prefects too. His vision is for the Prefects to be profiled more around the school, especially to the Juniors. He wants the Prefects to spend some of the free option subject periods in some of the junior classes and perhaps help them with other areas of life as well. The end of the year is not far around the corner now and I completely agree with the fact that we need to leave a legacy as the Prefect Group for 2008 for the future Prefects to follow.

At lunch time Carey and I met with Ms Heath about the promotional video and the corresponding Media Studies credits that we could consider. It looked like quite an interesting project to do, and to get credits for it would just be a bonus!

Tonight we had another training session at work. I don’t really know if those training sessions do anything for me to be honest, but I guess it reinforces what we are supposed to do while we’re working. I always remember watching the training DVD for Cotton On for the first time. It was almost cringe material. They had these role-playing actors pretending to work and be customers and the guy acting as the sales assistant walks up to the ‘customer’ and says

“Hi there, is there anything I can help you with? We actually have a 2-for deal on the tops in the middle of the store, which colours do you like?”

Like seriously, he was pretty hard out. I don’t know about you, but if I was that customer I would be intimidated more than anything! Although I can think of a few people who are exactly like that when they work… Ah well, late start tomorrow!