Task One: Earning Money

The first assignment given was to earn Rs. 100 in a day in a different way. I was a part of a group of seven people ( Me, Rajasee, Varshita, Shubhangi, Shivantika, Gauri and Mehr). After getting the assignment we spent approximately 2-3 hours ideating.
What we thought of doing :
1) Challenging people to games such as trying to make us laugh.
2) Making people laugh
3) Giving people an oil head massage or shoulder massages. Also, playing some music along with the massage.
4) babysitting children.
5) selling paper bags.
6) Going around with lighters to offer people lights for their cigerettes.
7) braiding hair.
8) Doing nail art.
9) getting ourselves slapped.
10) selling clips and other accessories.
11) selling greeting cards.
12) Applying henna tattoes or mehandi or bengali alta.
13) selling bay leaves with something written in hindi to tourists.
14) sketching people.
What we actually did :
We divided ourselves into groups of 1 and 2. We made greeting cards, hair clips, slipper accessories, block printed wrapping paper. Four of us went outside Mount Carmel college to sell these things. Two of us went to Cubbon Park to sketch portraits of people and one of us found two clients to give a massage to.
The experience :
Me and Shivantika went to sell out products together. Our strategy was simple. Since we had made products keeping in mind teenage girls as our target buyers we headed to Mount Carmel college. There we approached people as and when they walked out of the college gate and told them that we were street artists and if they would like to look at the things that we had made and it did not take us long to see all our greeting cards except one and most of our hair clips, but since the slipper art was something the people would have had to stick themselves they did not buy it but looked interested enough. A lot of people just walked off and didn't listen but more often than not they stopped and heard what we had to say. After the college we decided to go to Brigade Road because that is a place that caters to a lot of tourists and tourits who are interested in our culture. Because of time constraints we thought of applying the bengali alta instead of henna on hands but just as we reached it started raining and we were unlucky to not find many tourists and whoever we found was too busy. So we went back to the college t his time joined by Varshita and Gauri with their wrapping paper. We managed to sell most of our things by 3 'o' clock and even Shubhangi and Rajasee were done by that time with sketches and so was Mehr and we managed to almost reach our target of 700 by falling short of Rs. 10.
The experience was truly something because I've never done this before but it was an enriching experience because of the amount of ideas that we had and our ideas were such that they worked theoretically but when it came to practicality they failed to do as well.