work experience - james - first day

the first day of work experience at the film festival was a little slow but it was a good introduction to what we'd be contribting to. to begin with, we were sorting out lanyards for people who were going to be arriving throughout the festival. then we were asked to carry boxes from upstairs to the lobby which werefull of thins to put in gift bags. the gift bags were to be given to VIP's and other visiters to the festival.

we were split into groups and we then filled the bags with the various items such as leaflets and fancy chocolates. we spen about an hour sorting out the gift bags. we all had a different job. one person would put a chocolate in and pass it to someone who would add perfume. it was a good system that worked really well.

after we had organised the gift bags there was a lot of sitting around. they didn't really know what we could do to help which was really frustrating because we were sitting around feeling useless. after a while someon approached us and said that we could hand out leaflets to shops around town but some people in the group had already done that earlier. there was a strong sign of bad communcation among the workers of the festival and we were all getting tired of sitting. i was ready to up and go after about 45minutes of nothing to do but then they had finally found something for us to do.

we were handed the festial daily slips that were sheets shoing what the festival had to offer on that day, and we had to go around town and hand them out to people. as tiresome as that sounds me and alex had fun doing this. we spent a while doing it but it flew by. work is only boring if you choose to make it boring and me and alex made it fun. we weren't being stupid we were just trying to have a positive attitude about the whole thing. after we did that we went back to the picture house an people were leaving for lunch.

after lunch there was a meeting but unfortantly i had to go to work so i left at 2.30 to catch a bus. i was there from 9.30-2.30. it was an okay first day but it would have been better if they knew what they wanted from us because there was a lot of time wasted due to lack of organisation.