My first day. Starting at 8.30am 2/10/11 doing clip board at the Magic Makeover tent.
When I got dropped off I went to the info booth where I had to fill out a form to say I could work around children, got a ‘season 2011’ Merrigong T-shirt, a lanyard with my name on it and volunteer, a clipboard and was briefly informed on what I would be doing.
I then went over to the tent where Beth and Ryan (the ‘face painting experts’) were setting up and I gave them a hand and introduced myself to the other volunteer from ICS and other Merrigong staff members.
The morning got off to a rocky start as not everyone had a full idea of what was going on, there was a little bit of miscommunication and no communication.
The idea of the Magic Makeover was that children who had payed for tickets would get a lesson on face painting, then paint each others faces, then they could do other children faces (ones who wanted the ‘freebies’).
My job was to keep the children in an orderly line until Ryan and Beth were ready for them, then I would take the tickets, give the children name tags and ask the parents if they were okay with photos being taken of their children, if not they would get a sticker on their name tag which would show the photographer what photos not to use. When the children were in the workshop I would then tally how many children were participating and how many children/adults were observing.
This was not going to plan though as there were not enough children and the parents were getting confused as to what was going on and why is was not free. So a few times I had to contact Ann-Louise (a merrigong staff member) to clear up some stuff and they had to rethink the way it was going to work.
I finished this workshop at 12.30pm just when things were starting to get moving, and Beth did not want me to leave, saying I was doing such a good job and helping so much, I was sad to leave them, but I was off to my next work shop!
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