the most physical workout i have ever had...at work

today we had a huge training event to put on at the bank. i guess its huge in my standards. we create the content. we pull people from the bank to speak. we present it to the supervisors in the company. it goes on for four hours. and its all from scratch. i usually help with the behind-the-scenes aspects of events like these, which is cool. i like that part. much, much, much more than talking in front of all of them. lol. although now that they know me as more than the "email girl" it would be easier i think : )

anywho, for this training occasion we had a couple of big projects to complete. 1. create a giant puzzle with 70 plus pieces. each person in the training would get a puzzle piece which they add to the puzzle showing that we're all unique, but we form one team. cool, huh? it was totally not my idea. unfortunately i have much to learn in the ways of creating a session and because the only idea i came up with for an opener was a confusing scavenger hunt that takes them around the bank. and that would not fit in our 10 minute timeframe. so anyway, back to the puzzle. i made it out of tagboard and construction paper. took me probably 2 hours to assemble, then another 4 or 5 to cut apart. they pasted it together - and very haphazardly i might add - it about 10 minutes. i find that ironic. in complete honesty, i don't mind that i put in all that effort in order for it be unusable again. i just thought it was funny. but the whole this is still stuck up on the wall in the employee lounge. and hopefully will be there for a few days. which is fun. look up! there i am helping put together the final touches.

so besides that project, we also wanted to depict our employees as a visual for the trainees. so we have project 2. this was probably one of the coolest things we've done so far. barb came up with the idea to have each employee represented a paperchain person. we had someone from marketing make templates for us of a paperchain boy and girl, and then copied and cut 407 of them out for each employee. i didn't actually do the cutting out. thanks can be made to a couple of lovely ladies on the 1st floor for that. i don't know what we would have done without them. they cut them out for us, wrote names on them, and then we hung them up with thread yesterday before the session. all 407 hanging from the ceiling in the lounge. it looked awesome! they're still up there too. barb and i and a couple of other people took turns climbing up and down a later for the better part of the afternoon just to get them up. it was a lot of work. hence the workout. but i think it was totally worth it. i suppose you can disagree with this...but just so you know...you'll be wrong : ) haha. the picture doesn't really give you the full effect, that's only one shot of the room. but still the best fun thing we've done for a training session. hands down.

mk. its past my bedtime. i just wanted to share that with you all. i felt pretty proud of myself today...even if the handouts had a mistake on them. lol.

your turn: what's something that you've done or accomplished lately that you're proud of?