Using Initiative
In primary school once we were put into groups and told to make a water-mill. We were shown how to do it, basically a cube shaped wooden frame with a wheel in the middle. Sounded very easy in theory however we were allowed to choose our own groups so I was with my 2 best friends and we wern't too focused on getting it done. In fact we were doing terribly we'd only managed to get half of the wooden frame to stick together so we had a tripod of wood and that was all. Time was running out and the teacher had now announced there was a prize for the group who made the best one and presented it best. So I came up with a suggestion of just calling it a pyramid watermill. So we stuck the wheel in anyway drew some pyramid style walls to stick on the side completely making it like we'd used some great initiative rather than the fact that it was actually only half done. We danced and made a song about it in the presentation and won the prize, I was so proud.
(Plog, Thu 13 Aug 2009, 20:30, Reply)