Month: December 2019

The sales were excellent! As I wrote in my previous post that my school is conducting an activity on profit and loss for a better understanding of the concept, we have completed the project successfully this month. Our group had five people who were engrossed in different roles and including me, managing it. We decided to keep two items on the menu, and they were Bhel-Puri ( A tasty Indian street snack) and Choco-bites (bites of three different flavors of chocolate.Yum!).

When we started the sales, very few came to buy food from our stall, mostly because the stall next to us had a more attractive dish ( Chocolate lollipops with sprinkles). So, we shifted our booth to some other place outside near the exit where many people go out( a huge advantage). And hence, the sales began! We tried our level best to sell our items, and for a moment, we forgot our roles. I was a manager, but I became a marketer, server, and whatnot. Our parts weren’t necessary. We tried many different ways of marketing to attract our customers, and all of them worked! ( We also had to resist the urge to eat our food or else we would have eaten everything without selling anything!)

There was also some competition, but we managed to sell every scrap of our food ( thanks to our marketing skills, people loved chocolate!). After selling everything, there was still a lot of time. So, we created a new dish( bread with choco spread) on the spot and changed our menu. It was a massive hit, and we managed to collect more money with less investment.

After the sales, I calculated the profit and loss ( Obviously, that was my job. I love Mathematics! ). We were in profit, and we collected double the money we invested.

Overall, we had a lot of fun and enjoyed every moment of this practical learning experience. We donated our profits to set up a library in a government school on behalf of our school.

We get to learn new things from every experience in our lives. That day, I got to know that in business the most important thing is the way we talk to the customers and the marketing strategies, which makes us a successful businessman(although there is a more attractive dish at another place far away!).

Hope you had a wonderful 2019 and lets welcome 2020 with a big smile taking all the memorable moments with us ahead.

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Today, I have come across an incident. While I was travelling to school by the school bus, I heard a girls’s sobs. When I turned back, it was a girl who never cries in our van. Before I could react, a group of four came and tried to pacify her. I couldn’t muster the courage to talk to her even though she is a lot younger than me.

Basically, I am a silent girl in the bus. Mostly because I have no one of my age (everyone is little buds!), but I never felt sad or alone. Firstly, I love to spend time alone in the bus because I could let my mind travel everywhere and think and do whatever I want. I feel free and peaceful for the complete hour of travel. Though I am not at all like that in my school or at home. I speak to everyone, and I think I have a lot of friends.

The girl in my bus has a disease known as Vitiligo (white patches on the skin. I googled this word). So, she was crying because she had no friends to talk to at school and no one wants to sit with her. I thought that even I had to face that situation a long time ago.

Long back, when I first went to school in Chennai(India), everything was different around me. Everyone there were speaking a totally different language, and I could only communicate in English with them. But my English wasn’t as good as it is now. I had faced a lot of problems. Sometimes people say that I become an introvert after going there. Even I feel it sometimes, but if I hadn’t gone there, I would have missed a lot of things, experiences and friends in my life. My English would also have not improved. Even though I faced a lot of problems at first, later on, I realized that you don’t need to cry for friends or any other things because sooner or later they will all come to you. But it may take some time.

Crying or feeling sad about it, changes nothing. So, instead, if we try hard and excel in our activities, friends and people automatically come to you. It worked for me, it may work for her too.

That day I couldn’t console her, and I will make sure I won’t make that mistake again. But I am expressing my thoughts here so that I can remember this incident forever. We should always keep smiling and have a good day. (Don’t cry for anything!)

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