By Kirsten (The VD class)
Wow, it is the final week ! our class has been so busy running around doing everything to get this cow ready for the judging. Everything is due by 5pm Friday, and its an absolute challenge to get it all done. This week we had to move quick, stay back after school, stay in at lunch and even spend time out of class, just to finish our beloved T-bone. He is looking great! We have everything planned, and this week was all about finishing everything off, painting the final touches, finishing buildings, boats, people, shopping carts, farmers, cows, houses, water tanks, tree’s , globes, paddocks, blogs, PowerPoint and videos.
Saying that this week was stressful is an understatement, especially since in the last few days we realised there were things missing and things that needed to be completed. Not to mention, the problems we faced throughout the week, such as a whole bucket of paint spilling onto our paddock board, our rocket ship cracking, and all our resources running out and or not working properly.
We added everything on this week, and it was crazy. Things wouldn’t really stick, and we began to worry. Our picnic blanket had to be stiffened 3 times for it to stay, and we had to used LOTS of super glue to stick all the elements onto the cow. (which ended up with us having stuck together fingers.. ouch)
No, that wasn't the last of our week, we had to paint trees, create clothes for the clothes line as well as the people on the blanket, and create a road, ear tag, trucks and shopping trolleys. In fact we had so much stuff to do that we even got a few year 7 students involved on the last day.
Our last day of creating everything was Thursday. That night we stayed back at school til 7pm, just fixing everything up and adding all the bits and pieces onto the cow. It was fun, but at the same time it was so stressful, knowing that everything was due tomorrow. But I have a good feeling that everything is going to turn out okay, even though I am currently writing this blog at 11pm. But that only goes to show how much work was put into the creation of T-bone, as well as the creation of the blogs, PowerPoint and all the photos and videos we took.
On behalf of the whole class, I would say that the archibull prize was a great activity for us all to engage in. Not only did we learn a lot about the beef industry, but our artistic skills were developed, and we all now have a larger and more confident knowledge of the Visual Arts and designs. On top of that, us as classes grew closer, and we made friends and found out interesting things about people we never would of expected to be friends with. We all get along and bond so well. The archibull has been an amazing experience, and I’m sure many of us would love to do it again. 
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