#lapathon

Learning objectives: Undertaking New Challenges, Planned and initiated activities or part of an activity, and Global significance of activity.

It is finally the day of the Lapathon!!!!!!!!

At the beginning we were worried not many people would come (there were only 21 people who signed up), and the drinks and cookies might needed to be sold during break the next day... but instead a LOT of people participated! There were a lot of people who didn’t sign up on the google sheets who came and joined the event (the whole Eagle house came which was surprising) but thanks to all those who joined, we were able to produce a profit of around $100 just through drinks and cookies.

WHAT DID I DO?

The event started at 3:30 as per planned. The registration was quite chaotic as many people did not sign up on the google sheets and had to add their names to the list which took a bit of time. We didn’t manage to get all the people manning before the running started due to issues with communication, but Mr. Sheridan guided the first lap which helped the participants to know the course. This really helped the committee as well since it gave us time to check up with everyone scattered around the course and clarify any confusions. 

Some of the other member of Borneo Project came along to help with the manning which was a huge help (we didn’t have enough people in the group to all mann). 

Luckily, every job was assigned to all the members in advance so there was little confusion, although there was a little paper cup crisis half way through the event. This problem was solved by asking the participants to keep their paper cups and to NOT throw them away if they think they would want to drink again. 

^Photo of where I manned

I manned this corner with Grace and I think this was a good idea since we could communicate with the participants. This place was also good because it was half way between the food/drink stall at the front and the water station - I ran up and down the course to get things into place. 

The event finished at around 5:45 as the last runner was running his last lap. After this, we counted up how much we raised and I stayed back to clear up the area including collecting the bottles which were left behind and paper cups which were thrown away in the course. 

I learned through this event, that pacing the work is important when there is a lot of time for planning an event. In other words, during this term, our committee finished most of the planning well before the event and I forgot about the medals and awards to give out. This problem was solved by going to the shop the weekend before this event, but I think I should have been more aware of the tasks needed to be done.