The Langham

Over the weekend my boyfriend and I stayed at The Langham hotel in Melbourne for our one year anniversary together. 

On Friday morning I caught a train to the city to meet my boyfriend, Josh, after school. We then walked to the hotel to check in. From first walking in the door it exceeded our expectations. There were several flights of stairs with golden rails, marble floors and giant wishing fountains up the middle of the staircase. The staff were friendly and welcoming and asked about the occasion, if we needed anything and gave us information on everything in the hotel and surrounding. We stayed in a Grand River Corner room with two walls with massive windows veiwing the city and river.

Within 5 mintues of being in the room there was a knock at the door and two ladies dressed in pink with a complimentary chocolate cake for us as a gift for our one year. After that we got dressed and went to the Crown Kitchen Workshop buffet for dinner. It was amazing and the best part was the seafood for sure. We got back to the hotel and went to the Chuan Spa and had a swim and checked out the sauna and other facilities. We went back to the room and fell asleep after watching The Wedding Singer. 

When we woke we made our way down to the breakfast buffet and it was amazingggg. There were chocolate fountains, a custom omelette station, an asian buffet section and everything else you could imagine. We ate way too much and then we went back to the room and got ready for a 12pm checkout. As we checked out they talked to us about our night and were really really nice. We headed back to Bacchus Marsh and slept for a looong time after our long day. 

On Sunday I went and watched Josh play soccer. He played goal keeper and they won 4-3 over Ballarat. I headed home on Monday and now here I am on Tuesday writing this blog. 

The Flu Week

I was sick and got sent home for every day except Thursday last week. On Thursday we finished off our sandwich board and we went to Spotlight with Chris to create an account and get all the pricing for our tie dye project. It's going to work out to about $189 for 30 tie dyed t-shirts which we are hoping to sell for approximately $20 each which will work out to a profit around the $400 mark. On Monday we worked on our short term and long term goals and discussing what was needed to achieve them and who could help us with achieving them.

Sandwich boards and the Lion King

On Wednesday the 13th we took an excursion to Sale to see the Sale TAFE campus and meet some of the people there. We also went to look at an old cafe that Chris is helping do up to become a young peoples community space. On the Thursday we went over to the hall and I painted the sandwich board with blackboard paint and wrote up a heading. I was actually proud of the sandwich board in the end. I spent a few nights at my boyfriends and on saturday night I went to the lion king production with my family. I was sick Monday and Tuesday of this week so i didn't attend school.

Tie Dye and the VRI Hall

Last Tuesday afternoon we didn't get to go over to the VRI hall, and instead we meditated and talked about work and school and reputations, we watched a TED talk on a man who had a very bad past but he changed it and did everything he could to turn his life around and it showed that you can always make up for your past and change yourself. Then on Wednesday the internet was not working so we got to go home early, but before I went home I wrote up a resume and it was really good. On Thursday Courtney, Abbey and I learnt how to paint properly and then we painted the stage at the VRI hall, we also fixed one of the chairs with Dave. On Monday we started on a project called 'Making a dollar', where we must come up with an idea of a product to make and then we can either donate, or sell it to raise money for our camp. It was really hard to think of something that would be in demand and would sell. Eventually Courtney and I decided we would buy some plain white products such as bags, shirts and socks, and we would tie dye them ourselves. People have already expressed interest in our products so we are hoping it will be within the budget and we will be able to go through with it.