Today I met with Rhian who is doing the
Perth Ramble with me. We met at Curtin to discuss how we are going to get more
students involved in the Perth ramble, we also needed to give the Perth Ramble
an update about our progress.
We decided to put flyers around campus and
talk to students one on one. As we went around campus to speak with students we
found to receive the same reaction from students. About 99% of the time the
students would look at us as if to say “why are you interrupting my coffee” or gives
their friends a little look of “im really not interested”.
It is sad to think our generation has no
time to even listen to someone talk for literally 1 minute. Furthermore, its
not just the fact that it is rude to the people speaking but it is also
disrespectful to the charity who are trying to fundraise money for Telethon.
On the brighter side we did get a few
peoples emails and we also met a man called Leo who kindly let us put flyers on
his stall, he reassured us and said that we are doing a very good job.
We will be going to our own lectures to
talk about the Perth Ramble and to see who would be interested to sign up
there. After 2 hours of talking to students we decided to write our update
report so that our marketing supervisor Anthea can present it to the committee in
tomorrows meeting.
Lastly we have started an Instagram account for the Perth ramble “perthramble”
for people to follow and updated the Facebook page where we are running a
competition for people to enter and win 3 nights accommodation to Margaret
River.
Hopefully we will get better success with students next time, fingers crossed!
Gina Soumelidis
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