Dropping by Perth's tallest building

Hi guys, hope you are all well!

Last week I jumped at the chance to tag along with my supervisors to a meeting with Central Park (Perth's tallest building) where the Enerflex Step up for MS event is to be held in June. Basically it's a marathon up the 1096(53 flights) of the office building where participants have been training (hopefully) these past few weeks and also raising donations along the way. Just looking at the building has me shuddering at the thought of climbing 53 flights of stairs, it's definitely a long way up! If it were me I'd probably get up to 4 or 5 flights and drop...

Anyway, it was a fascinating insight in what is actually discussed in meetings. Basically a lot of talking about logistics and things like placement of stages and posters and banners, volunteers, security, entertainment and so on.

I had thought it might get a bit boring but I actually did find it quite interesting to just sit and listen. Before doing this PR placement, if I had gone to this event, I would have put little thought in the amount of discussion, analysing and work that went on behind it. I would have put little thought into the particular placement of the stage or the type and position of banners, I wouldn't have even noticed the special considerations put into aspects such as needing the staircases to be aired and cleaned out before the event or for finding a method that was the most efficient and effective way to have participants register on the day. I also found it interesting that during the meeting any negative feedback from the previous year was duly noted and considerations made to change aspects of the event to make it even better than the previous year.

On a side note I've been spending the past few days trying to get Enerflex Step Up For MS on every calendar of events I can possibly find on the web. I didn't know it before but Perth really does have a whole lot of things happening every month. Sporting events, concerts, musicals and theatre productions and conventions/conferences. After the report and exams are over I'm definitely going to hop back on the various sites I found to check out what's happening around Perth!

See you later.