Since getting back from Thailand (Yes I know.. I still have more stories and photos to share!) I’ve been doing a lot more promotional work (AKA Promotional Modelling, but that’s probably talking up the role). This past weekend alone I worked 20 hours, this is in addition to the 40 hours I’d already worked in the office.

Before you thinking I’m complaining about the extra work though let me just tell you about a couple stories about recent ‘jobs’.

Saturday night I was hired to work for a Diva Christmas party. Diva is girls fashion accessories chain located throughout Australia and NZ. They have some 28 stores in this state alone, whose staff this particular party was for. I arrived not knowing what to expect nor what I was likely to be doing… Generally speaking promotional work for an event like this I thought could range from helping sign guests in, to assisting with food and drinks. I was wrong…

I was pointed in the direction of one of the organisers who was going to brief me on what was required. This was what she had to say…”We wanted to hire some out going guys to just mingle with the girls tonight. Make sure they’re having fun, take them up for a dance if they want. Help yourself to the food and drink, the bar tab will start later. Find yourself a girl friend if you want.”… With an attempt to hold back some kind of cheeky/over excited grin I believe I responded with “I can manage that.”…

So there we were the only 4 guys in a hall with over a hundred girls dressed in cocktail dresses. I swear each of us spent the first hour in disbelief!!

Life couldn’t get any better until I realised I had also be asked to work a SportsGirl Christmas party (girls clothing store chain) on Tuesday night. This function was even better a slightly smaller group but a great bunch of girls who were a lot of fun! I was also working with guys I’d work with before.. Ohh and it was at Jade Buddha, noice venue.

The night started out with each of us given a task to assist with welcoming all of the girls, while wearing an extravagant feather head piece. Mike an I opted for handing out the Hawaiian leis… Needless to say given my usual demeanor I spent majority of this using a variety of puns with the word “lei” (or lay..)..

“Would you like a lei?” or when one didn’t go on properly “Sorry I’m a bad lei.”, this went on for an hour until we’d lei’d about 50 girls each.