Yeah, I totally forgot to blog for like the last 3 days. I'm sorry. There's just so much on my plate.
I have like 5 bajillion things to say, so instead of trying to separate it into 4 blogs, I'm just going to spew it all out in one big long rant (I'm sorry if you have to try to read this. :( It's going to be long. Like, looooooooong.)
Anyways, I'm so stressed right now.
Okay so on Sunday, I went and bought a whole bunch of stuff for NPO. I met Margo at the Oakridge Safeway rather coincidentally, we just happened to be buying food in the same place at the same time. I bought some cupcakes at the IGA near my house, and I also bought a giant gingerbread man and some mini cookies at Safeway, while Margo bought 2 different types of sugar cookies and another giant gingerbread man. So, that was all well and fine... Margo and I bought less because Erica bought more, so we wanted to even out the amount of food we bought so we could sell them while they were still fresh. (OBTW, I WAS SO HAPPY WHEN WE GOT SNOW ON SATURDAY I WAS JUST LIKE :D :D :D <3 <3 and the only reason I mention this is because we were going to bake on Friday and Margo reminded us all that there might be snow on Friday and to be careful if we were driving/bussing/walking. Something totally unrelated: there wasn't snow on Friday so I didn't think there'd be snow at all, but my mom woke me up with "Snow outside!" on Saturday, and I didn't believe her, because my family has this thing where they take turns trying to get me up by telling me there's snow. :P)
So then, we started selling on Monday, and I'd originally had high expectations, but with the constant "I don't think we're going to make any money" vibe coming off of Margo and Erica, I was starting to get a bit depressed and start thinking that way. (We were talking about stress in Leadership the other day, and we were talking about how other people's stress can affect you. BOOM: perfect example. Also, that day I hadn't been feeling stressed until we started talking about our stresses and how we could deal with them.) Well, GUESS WHAT, we made $73.75 revenue! On the first day! I literally said to Margo afterschool after Debate meeting, "I can't wait to go home and count the money," because we had SOOO much cash and I was like *YES. YES. YES.* So then I was so excited I went home and I pretty much spent the entire afternoon calculating our sales, profits, products sold, and how to reinvest. In total our cash right now is 103.75, which means we made 3.75 profit and 100 to give back to our shareholders. But hey. It's a start.
I'm kinda stressed for NPO now, not because it's hard, but because there's a lot of things to do. My mom's an accountant, so she can help me with some of the accounting stuff, because Erica's kind of scared of accounting. But I feel so tired now, because I feel like I'm running a one-man (one-woman) business. I did the first few meeting minutes, I made the agendas, and I'm keeping track of the money and doing the accounting right now. I bought all of our new inventory for tomorrow's bake sale because Margo and Erica didn't have time. Erica and Margaret and their parents have been really helpful, with driving, making the angel food cake, buying food, and selling with me, but I feel like I'm taking on a lot of responsibility. And I like that, because I'm learning, but sometimes I feel like it's getting to be a little too much, and I have other homework to do too. For example, the science. (Well, and English but I'll get to that later).
For the science game project, Erica and Margaret and I (yes, it's the 3 of us again :P) are doing "The Great Sperm Race Game". (We're studying Life Science in science right now.) I really wanted to do an interactive video game, but really, only Erica knows programming well, I only know a little bit, and Margo doesn't know any at all. I really wanted to take this project farther, because I believe in doing my best and doing more than is required, so I can learn better. Erica pointed out, however, that it's very difficult to program if you don't know how to program (well), and she already had a lot of responsibilities on her hands. I was like, Well, I can learn in a weekend or so if I do just programming, because I'm a fast learner, and I believe I can do it. Erica says it takes years for a programmer to get good, and also to write a decent program, so then we said we should borrow from someone else. We asked Mr. Mo and he said it's fine, as long as it's all open-source and we cite the programmer. I think the science game is a big task, but I'm up to it, and I'm feeling a little bit tired and discouraged, because I want to do a really good job on this, but my group thinks it'll be too difficult. I'm willing to put in the effort, and I'm not asking anyone to do all the work, I'm willing to do my fair share, but my group thinks it's just impossible. I realize that and I'm respecting it, but I really want to put effort into this thing. Just like with NPO, I think we could do a really good job of this if we're only willing to put in extra time and effort. Going back to NPO, I really want to do a good job, learn something, and raise money for the WHO, which is why I'm putting so much effort into it. I want to do likewise for science. But I think the reality might be that we're just out of time--Margo, Erica and I have so many other things on our plate.
*Side note: I remember when Erica told me once, she heard someone in her class asking someone else (let's call them John and Tim) why they created a circle for an electronics class (I think the choice was to carve a circle or a figure). Tim replied, "'Cause it's easy." Then John said to Tim, "Yeah, but when we're in Grade 12, I'll look back on this and say, 'Wow, I did a really good Pokemon,' and you're going to look back on this and say, 'Wow, I did a really good circle.'" I just about died laughing there, because it was #LOLSOTRUE. (at least for me) My philosophy of learning is that you don't take the easy path, the easy way out, the minimum requirements, you do as much as you can and more than the requirements because it helps you learn. There's a reason we're in school, and that reason is to learn. Personally, I learn because I'm hoping to contribute something to the world. To me, giving back is one of the the most important things one can do in life, and I'm hoping to do just that, which is why my learning philosophy is to always do your best.
We have literally 3 projects ongoing for English right now. We have a compare/contrast essay on Friday, and I'm kind of worried for that because I've never written a compare/contrast essay before. The ones I've done are all persuasive. Then again, we have the dossier, due next Tuesday, which I've barely started yet, because I wasn't there for the "debriefing" (I was at a piano competition) and I have a few questions to clear up. We also have the AS/English Crossover story, which I'm working on right now. I have this really awesome idea about this girl and her computer controlling her future, but no spoilers now! I've been spending so much time on NPO recently because I looove it (I <3 doing this business stuff :D) and I have to start moving on these projects, because I don't have Friday and Saturday.
*sighs* I'm kinda getting really stressed out now, but I'll be okay. (Actually, one of my best ways to work through these "crunch times" is to spend 5 minutes dreaming about how I'll feel like in 2 weeks when it's winter break and there's nothing to do for an entire half a month... Then I snap back to reality and work my butt off so the dream is more than a dream. :D)
SO EXCITED FOR BAKE SALE TOMORROW :D
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