As most of you know, in the run up to the football World Cup, every Friday is Football Friday and we all come to work in our football kit. At the office, we each drew a team and there was a competition whereby each person had to decorate themselves and their desk according to that team. As luck would have it, I drew Italy - which is my team anyway! The competition was on Friday. When I went into the office on Thursday, I saw that one guy (Thabiet - Nigeria) had put up the most amazing display of chocolate soccer balls, strings of flags that he had made and fairy lights. Other people had streamers and clothing..... how do you compete with that? At that point all I had was a large Italian flag, an Italian scarf and a soccer shirt that I had hung from the ceiling.I realised that I had to raise my game drastically!
So after work, I went to the shops to see what I could pick up and to try and come up with some ideas. I had one or two but there was stuff that I wanted that I was battling to find. In the end I had to give up and go home with the few things that I did have. I ended up asking everyone at home to brainstorm and help me out. We came up with the idea to make Italy cookies which were iced by Tina, Ollie and Irene. However, the final brainwave was an idea to take my Vespa to work and show it off as part of the display. I was a bit dubious about that particularly seeing as it was raining at the time and riding in the rain is no fun. Some of my kit (my hard hat) wasn’t ready and Georgios kindly lent me a replacement for the day…… Getting the Vespa in the lift to get to the 6th floor was a serious mission, but with Tina’s help we managed it.
I think most of my work colleagues were shocked! But they all cheered anyway… so I set up my desk and the judges came round at 11. There were some really fantastic displays – Japan had sushi and Mexico had nachos! Results came out at 12…. And I won Best Desk! Second was Mexico, Japan and Nigeria tied third and England and Brazil got special mention. More pics on Face book soon!
Thanks go to Tina Germanis, Irene Eleftheriou, Oliver Strang, Catherine Biggs and Georgios Michaelides – you guys are the BEST!!! :)
