Every year, on Valentine's Day, all Year 12 and 13 would organise a Valentine's Disco. We would also have a Valentine's box where students can send a valentine's card to their friends or their lovers or if they gave a crush on someone. Me, Sabina, Neda and Mark were the ones who took care of the box. For every card, we would charged them with 30roubles and cards + chocolates would be 50roubles. Again, this is all for the guide dog.
Another thing that I planned was selling cupcakes and cookies on this day. So, I told Mrs Grey about it and the Year 11 girls also wanted to participate and the Year 8 girls as well. So, I made mini chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream frosting and M&M on top. This was actually my first time making a frosting and frost a cupcake. I was happy with myself after looking at the cupcakes that I have decorated. So, on this day, we used the English room to sell the cupcakes and cookies that we had. The Year 11 and 8 girls helped me to sell them and I was standing and calling everybody to buy them. It was a success and we actually raised about 7000roubles.
One other thing that I did during Valentine's Day was helping selling the sandwiches during the disco. Me and Daniel would take the order and Shaun, Mantas, Thibaut and Francesco would make the sandwiches. For the first 5minutes, nobody came, but after that, it was a chaos for the rest of the disco. But we were under control, so it was fine. Eventhough it was actually hard to remember the orders, but I tried my best for it. It was funny how I actually said to Thibaut "one sandwich with ham and cheese...without sandwich", when I actually wanted to say without ketchup. I didn't even realised until Matanat told me and when I looked back, everybody was laughing at me. That made our day actually during the chaos.
The CAS learning outcomes that I achieved during Valentine's Day are :
- Increase awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth as I have never decorated cupcakes before and never made that much money by selling cupcakes
- Planned and initiated activities as the Year 12 and 13 planned the disco and I planned the cupcake and cookie sale
- Worked collaboratively with others when we were selling the sandwiches as me and Daniel took the order and Mantas, Shaun, Thibaut and Francesco would make the sandwiches
- Considered the ethical implications of my actions
