A trivial matter!

Last Saturday night, after 3 months of planning, over 240 parents, staff and friends attended the first trivia night at our school for about 10 years. This event was a huge undertaking involving canvassing over 700 local businesses for sponsorships, prizes and silent auction items plus organising the event itself. We catered, provided beverages and ran the questions in-house (we had two very keen teachers on the job). All on a zero budget. This was not something we did in our spare time, it was a full-time job for four people for three months. As of yesterday I am three weeks behind at uni.

A beer company supplied first prize - five cases of premium beer. Second prize was 10 unreleased CDs courtesy of another parent from Warner Music. I was gunning for second prize. However, it was not to be. Our table: The Flight Centre table had a number of secret weapons (aka us) and blitzed the field. Mind you, I cannot claim credit for our win as I don't think I sat down all night due to organising duties*. I consoled myself by being the highest bidder on this:



It's a one-off pre-production bag from Oroton.

The school made $25,000 towards buying SMARTboards for our classrooms. Now I'm going to find a nice large rock and hide under there for a while...

* we organisers weren't involved in the design of the questions.