SAISA Girls football - Event Crew

Girls SAISA football to place this weekend, in the home of the GECKOS ( Overseas School of Colombo). The schools started arriving on Wednesday 1st, with 8 different schools from Asia SAISA began on Friday 3rd and ended on Sunday 5th. Throughout these days, our girls football team played a variation of different teams and made it to the finals where they played of with AES (Delhi) the other underfeated team apart from them. In the final's our team lost 3-0. Our girls came out victorious since it was the first time in over 10 years in which OSC has made it to the finals in a Saisa.
Throughout the course of this weekend, I had signed up for the event crew along with a few of my class mates, we were all handed different jobs in which we would specify on.
My job required me to prepare the OSC auditorium for the Friday night social in which the girls from all the different teams would socialize and bond. We were then to prepare the auditorium for the Sunday night Ceremonial night. Through this course I also helped around the field in doing small jobs and helping other crew members complete their job.

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In order to prepare the auditorium for the Social on Friday night, I was required to carry around couches and high jump mats along with my other event crew members. We carried the heavy high jump mats around the school in order to place them in the auditorium. We then carried Sofas and small couches from different rooms around the school to the auditorium. Along with this we were required to prepare the play list of music for which would be playing throughout the night in the Social event.We organized the room in such a way that we could then fit two table tennis tables for entertainment. Our goal for Friday night was to create a Relaxed atmosphere in which the Saisa athletes could relax and socialize with their new/old friends.
On Saturday it was pouring with rain which then made it a challenge for us to remove the furniture which we had placed in the auditorium the previous day, so we then decided to do all the planning on Saturday so we could then go Straight to work on Sunday morning in removing the furniture and placing the tables and chairs for the ceremony.
This whole event was prepared by us the event crew in charged of the auditorium. We planned the auditorium in order for it o be set as a relaxed room while the other half of the auditorium was set with loud music and and disco lights for the athletes to dance. We planned this all in one day and were required to set it by ourselves and with some help from the OSC staff. With the award ceremony on Sunday we had a bit more time to think what we needed to do and we also had the help from the PTA ( parent teacher Association) to prepare.
The whole weekend was a success, we managed to overcome all our challenges and prepare the auditorium in time for Saisa athletes.