Today we had class like normal and then it was the opening day of the shop where we all showed off our new stands and the products that we were going to sell. Our smoothie stand was one of the most popular stands there and we were very busy selling smoothies and not French fries. We thought the French fries would sell very well here but Thais do not like to branch out of their comfort zone and we only sold 9 plates of fries for the day which was only 90 baht. We sold out of some flavors of smoothies by the middle of the day and we found out which smoothies sold the best and which sold the worst and we eliminated those flavors from our menu as a result. We closed at 4 with total revenue for the day of 2100 baht which is not bad at all for our first day! (Other teams did not even sell 1000). I think we were one of the best selling stands for the day and I think that we will be able to make a very good profit for the two weeks that we are working and get some of our money back in our pockets to spend in at other occasions.
Once we got home we had about 5 hours of down time that we had available to us to do something for ourselves for a change. I desperately needed a haircut so I walked down the main road and found a salon that was doing haircuts for 300baht (kinda pricey right?) but I figured that in the states I would have paid about 15 for a good haircut and so I walked in and received a very good haircut and they washed and conditioned my hair so that was pretty nice all for only 300 baht. I left and came back to the international center where we all decided to go to the Italian restaurant to have some pizza and beer to start the night off right. I had a nice 8 inch pizza and a large beer for just over 7 dollars US and then we went to the club called the warm up where we preceded to drink, get hammered, and then attempt to dance on the stage where we got kicked off. It was a great night and definitely one to remember.
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