This week, we applied for a Mufti day, made a poster, and finally earnt 300,000 won. The money will initially be used for our buying new art supplies, and be donated to local environmental groups.
So, what are Mufti days? These are days when students are allowed to wear their casual clothes instead of their school uniform. Australia and a few other countries' schools have this policy; our school is probably the only school in South Korea that wears a school uniform and has this policy.
But a meaningful difference between other schools and our's is that we need to pay 1000 won (which is about a dollar) to the school to wear our casual clothes. (They don't force you to wear school uniform if you didn't bring your money with you, but it's still customary to pay) Then, the money is donated to two service groups that have applied to earn the money.
Our project had to buy new materials but was quite running out of money, and also wanted to donate some of the money to local environmental groups. We thought that this Mufti day would be a good chance to not only buy supplies but also donate to local activists, and decided to apply for it. Soon, the school contacted us that we had been selected for this Mufti day, along with another committee, and that we had to make a poster to advertise ourselves.
So, I made a poster using PowerPoint (as always; I do not see the point of using photoshop since most of its functionalities are shared with Powerpoint). It was inspired by the cover of a book that just happened to be next to me; I tried to put colours in the letters to allow it to resemble a Penguin. The poster did not include any reference to waste, so perhaps our next poster could incorporate such aspects.
Then, we began to stick it around the school, so that people would know better about our project, and where their money was going to be used.
After the Mufti day was finished, we gained a total of 300,000 won! (as stated above) Soon, this money will be used in beneficial ways for the environment.
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