The Exclusive Hotel

The Exclusive Hotel

The day had come. I could not apprehend that we were really going to the Cordis Hotel. One moment
we were in class and the next, we were in a bus driving through the city. I had used Scratch before for
some practise, but never for anything as interesting and fun like coding!

I was extremely excited to be going to a posh hotel, I just didn’t know what to expect. When we hopped
off the bus we were welcomed by a lady named Sarah, who was one of the people we were working with that day. She introduced herself then led us off through the main entrance. We walked down some
stairs and entered a room next to another school.  To my amazement, I was breath taken by the organized,
productive and luxurious sight.  “A room filled with Laptops on tables, my gosh where am I?” I thought.
We sat down on the massive mat space and were welcomed by Michael and Sarah once more. Melianna,
AJ and I were asked to do rock, paper, scissors, to see who was going to speak on the phone with
“Radio New Zealand” which later on didn’t happen.

We sat at a desk and were approached with water. “WATER! What hotel has their own water?!” I imagined
to myself. Then we began. Next to the expensive laptops was a small booklet, a mouse and a pen. The
device had already been logged in and set up on to the site Scratch. In the booklet was instructions that told
us what to click to make a game, it also had checkboxes which we used the pens to check once we had
done each stage. The game was called Ghostbusters. We clicked on things like “backdrop, sprite character”
and then clicked on the programming icons like motion, looks, sound and more. Eventually other people
from around the world (I think) had come into the room and walked around to other students asking about
what they were learning.

By the time most of the students including myself had finished our games, most of the ministry people had
left and it was time to pack up. We sat on the mat once more, then were asked if anyone could show their
game. Cathy, Melianna, Tiana, Charlee, Cleo and I had presented our games to the class, then sat back
down. Certificates were handed to us as we lined up. After that we were escorted out of the building.
That was my experience at the  Cordis hotel.

During my time at the Cordis Hotel I had loads of fun. The time went unbelievably fast. Speaking to many
people from around the world was great. The air conditioned room and the bottled water just added a fun
and professional touch to the place. I enjoyed every second of that day and look forward to creating more
coding games on Scratch!