Student Days at the Faire......
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poltr1Yesterday was one of the three Student Days at the Ohio Renaissance Festival. These are days where the festival is closed to the public, but open to school classes and their teachers. The students get to interact with the villagers, ask questions of them, and hopefully learn something about how life was like in the Renaissance period. In short, it's a full-day field trip back in time (via the Renaissance Festival).
And so I chose to work in the drink booth that day. Yesterday were the K-8 students, and those who were home-schooled. The first couple of hours were slow. We had several rennies and teachers ask us for coffee, but alas, our booth isn't selling coffee this year. The Faire management opened up a coffee shop, and didn't have the foresight (or staff) to open it up yesterday.
We lost our first customer since our soda machine wasn't working. Everything was coming out clear. But once we replaced the CO2 canister, everything was working again. I hope he came back later in the day.
Business picked up around lunchtime, and came in in waves. We'd get slammed with customers between the end of one session and the beginning of another. It was like the 4-6 minutes between classes when students left one classroom to go to another. There were times where we were selling strawberry smoothies faster than we could make them. But we had enough people to keep everything running smoothly. We shut down at 2:30.
One of the more amusing sites that day was watching a few kids from one of the schools imitate galloping on horses, a la Monty Python and the Holy Grail. All they were missing were the coconuts.
Of course, we couldn't get as bawdy and ribald as we'd get during the weekend. But we managed to have fun and make the day enjoyable for the kids. It helped to have James the Pirate across the "street" from us. He spent most of the day making chainmail. And when there weern't kids around, we'd swap lines and stories.
Next week are the two remaining student days -- one for K-8; the other for high schoolers.
And so I chose to work in the drink booth that day. Yesterday were the K-8 students, and those who were home-schooled. The first couple of hours were slow. We had several rennies and teachers ask us for coffee, but alas, our booth isn't selling coffee this year. The Faire management opened up a coffee shop, and didn't have the foresight (or staff) to open it up yesterday.
We lost our first customer since our soda machine wasn't working. Everything was coming out clear. But once we replaced the CO2 canister, everything was working again. I hope he came back later in the day.
Business picked up around lunchtime, and came in in waves. We'd get slammed with customers between the end of one session and the beginning of another. It was like the 4-6 minutes between classes when students left one classroom to go to another. There were times where we were selling strawberry smoothies faster than we could make them. But we had enough people to keep everything running smoothly. We shut down at 2:30.
One of the more amusing sites that day was watching a few kids from one of the schools imitate galloping on horses, a la Monty Python and the Holy Grail. All they were missing were the coconuts.
Of course, we couldn't get as bawdy and ribald as we'd get during the weekend. But we managed to have fun and make the day enjoyable for the kids. It helped to have James the Pirate across the "street" from us. He spent most of the day making chainmail. And when there weern't kids around, we'd swap lines and stories.
Next week are the two remaining student days -- one for K-8; the other for high schoolers.
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