Lending a Helping Hand

On Tuesday I went in to school with Aonghas at about midday to try catch all the year 13's who had just finished their Classics exam so we could do a bit of filming for the Year 13 Leavers' DVD. Chen had originally asked Aonghas if he could put it together, but only managed to provide one tape of footage for him before the school video camera he had borrowed got stolen <insert gasp here>. The project was on the verge of being abandoned but after I discussed some ways of keeping it going with Aonghas, we told them we could try get it done. I'll probably be doing the rough video editing and let Aonghas tidy things up once he finishes his exams. I'm probably going to have to go in to school to do some additional filming.

On Tuesday we went around to as many teachers as we could find, getting them each to read out one line of a particular song that we'll end up putting together for the DVD. A few of the lines were a bit risqué though so fortunately there were some PE and performing arts staff who were game enough to do them! You won't believe which teachers we managed to get to read a line though! They had no idea what the lines meant or what we were doing though so I suppose we kinda took advantage of their trust in us! We're still evaluating whether we should continue with the particular song we chose to do, as we had a threat from one teacher that if it ain't clean then we're dead!

Yesterday I went with Hamish to West City to try help him apply for a job at various places. All the banks and Whitcoulls told him to apply online, while Simply Two (formerly $2 Shop) told him they'd be employing more people closer to Christmas. He eventually managed to get an application form from Countdown and also tried the library. While there wasn't much success, at least more had been accomplished by him in a couple hours than the couple weeks of holiday up till then put together!

I promised Rhea, this girl who used to go to Rutherford, that I'd come to her Youth Group last night as well, but I ended up falling asleep when I got home from West City and completely missed it! I'm going to have to do a lot of apologising in the morning!