ESPAIS OCULTS 2023

Friday, 6th October (16.30) - Friday, 6th October (17.30) & Saturday, October 7th (09:00) - Saturday, October 7th (19:30)

Supervisor's name: Maribel Virgili
Contact to supervisor: mvirgil6@xtec.cat
Learning outcomes: 1, 2 and 5

📌 Casa Rull (morning) | 📌 Casal Social del Roser (afternoon)

Description: Reus Ocult is a foundation that has the purpose of showing different spaces which are closed during the year during a weekend once every year. Open from 10:00-14:00 and 16.30 to 19:00 Saturday and Sunday. 

Planning/previous thoughts: Before doing the activity, I thought about how would I handle the visitors and how to keep calm. I am a very active person and I love doing things, but sometimes they can be really stressful.
The day before going to the space, we were able to look at it to see where we could place everything to prepare for it. I saw Casal Social del Roser on Friday afternoon. Then, because I wanted to learn about another space and a person couldn't come, I chose the noon before to volunteer at Casa Rull the next morning. We also had a volunteer lunch.
I had to plan my routine. I had to wake up early and be at Casa Rull at 9 o'clock to prepare and bring everything to the corresponding spaces. Furthermore, I helped with everything I could: I set the totem with the name of the space and I prepared in a creative way the table with all the products to sell and the leaflets for people to grab.  

Activity's valoration: In my opinion, the activity was quite interesting. I was able to see every single space I was staying and that made me admire the pretty architecture and I handled stress with public better, which also helped me in other IB subjects. 

Final reflection: Being in tough situations makes me improve. During the day, I had to handle with some rude customers that complained about our limitations and the long queue times. With my partner, we handled all situations and customers agreed to wait or the left to another place. I also had 2 customers with whom I had to speak in foreign languages (English and Portuguese). That made me improve my language skills and made me go out of my comfort zone.

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