Daily Work Record - Sydney Royal Easter Show Workplacement

STREET PARADE Day 3 17/4/11 10am-5.45pm (7.45 hours)

a) Uniform = 5
b) Punctuality = 4
C) Initiative = 4
D) Cooperation = 5
E) Work Standard = 5
F) Development of Skills = 5

Today was my third day of workplacement, I was in the street parade. At first in the morning I was a bit worried at how the day was going to turn out or wether i was going to like it, but it ended up being a really great day. After i signed on we all sat around in a group and everyone got to know eachother, we all played games like musical chairs and danced around like we were kids again we had alot of fun, and I made lots of new friends with Kristelle. After our fun and games it was down to business, we had to clean the floats, and wash the three cars that are used for the parades. After this was over it was not long until we were breifed for the 1pm street parade. Here they told us what order the parade would go in, who was performing and then allocated us costume characters. We then had to move the fence line so the public would not go in the set up space, and we then helped to move the floats and cars into order and ready to go. Today I was canon lady for both the 1pm and 5pm street parades, my role was to wave at everyone and blow kisses very over the top especially at the little children, and basically try to get a smile out of them. I didnt use any equipment today, the most i did was put on my costume, and adjust the straps with safety pins to fit me. However today I further developed a very valuable skill, teamwork not only working together to plan and organise the parade, but working as a team when we were performing the parade.

The street parades were very fun i was dressed in a red top, with a red wig, a crown and matching red face paint and I had to climb into the canon and hang out over the top. The street parade went for about 20 minutes. After it my arms were very sore from smiling. After both street parades we had to go inside and get out of our costumes and quickly come back out to help bring in the floats and put the fence back were it belonged and then come inside and clean the area, the quicker we did this, the quicker we got to go to lunch or go home. After each street parade they also gave us feedback about how it was and how it looked and was really good. Street parade was really fun, i really enjoyed it!