preparing for a Trivia & Auction Night

Trivia Night

Last night, me and my friends ‘The Jam Donuts’ hosted a trivia and auction night to raise money for Berry Street Victoria. The event was held at Monash City Church of Christ auditorium, 44-46 Montclair Ave Glen Waverley (August 23 from 7.30 until 11.30pm). Tickets cost $15 a person, including desert and drinks, as well as many prizes on the night.

Anywayz, even though it started at 7:30, we still had to set up the place, as we were using the auditorium of the church. So we had to bring the pews out of the auditorium and then bring the tables and chairs in. So the group of us had to be there by 4pm. However, a lot of the people were late to come and help with the pews and so only 6 of us were there to shift the pews… which were really heavy and tiring :’(

The other people from the group came in at around 4:15, 4:30 in which almost all of the pews were taken out and only the tables and chairs were left. Lazy peoples huh. LOL jkjk

Anywayz, they came with the food and drinks in their cars. Cartons and cartons loads of drinks!!! Solo, Sunkist, Pepsi Maz, Diet Pepsi, Sprite and some other drinks. Food was also brought in. Chips, Sandwiches, Ice cream and Chocolate and Donuts. YUM!!!!

So I helped out with bringing the food in to the kitchen or stage before we brought the tables and chairs into the auditorium. With everyone there (12 people) by the time to bring in the tables, the time it took to bring in the tables and chairs was shorter than the pews. With the tables and chairs in, everyone then spilt up to get all of the last minute things ready. From decorations on the tables to the PowerPoint/projections and the opening sequence.

For the decorations on the tables, we had 8 cans of drink, two flowers as well as two triangular advertisments which we had to glue together. We also had to blow up balloons to place all around the auditorium. The two MCs, (Johnny and Naaman) went off the practise their opening sequence which included ripping off the Olympics and ‘airdrumming’ to Naruto theme song. LOL which is SOOOO Johnny.

When all of this was done, the time was almost 7, so we started to figure out what we were going to do DURING the actual trivia night, as in who would get the answers, and who would bring the people in to their tables.

At 7, people had already started to come in, as parking spaces would have been hard to find. At this time, we realised that the tables were all over the place ^^” hehe… yah. So we had to hurry and write down the tables in the order that they were in so that we could bring people to the right tables.

In the end, 22 tables were all filled up with one empty table. Which means that we had already raised over $2000 just from ticket sales. ^-^v.