Smooth-Ease @OCADU – Fruit Smoothies for Stress Free Exam Season

In collaboration with the OCADU’s Health and Wellness Centre two students in separate faculties helped organize an event on Tuesday December 2 to promote a stress free, healthy environment for the student body.

We went shopping primarily in Kensington Market early on Tuesday to prepare for a two hour event in which we tried to organize aspects such as funny videos, comfortable furniture, visual media for wandering or informed students to use temporarily during the tough week of finals at OCAD.

We knew this week would be tough but what we didn’t prepare for what the amount of food we inevitably needed to carry BACK to school.

the beginning of the fruit

Kensington Market was so bright and enjoyable in the morning around noon.

The Space and the recipes

Recipes

Anthony pouring a fruit smoothie for students.

Sophie and Daniela blending up a storm.

Smoothie 1 was a simpler recipe combining strawberries, vanilla yogurt, Ice, OJ, and bananas.

Smoothie 2: Raspberries, Blueberries, POM juice, Ice, Honey, Strawberries ( while they lasted )

Smoothie 3: Kale, Blueberries, grapes, honey, Lemon juice, OJ, Ice, and maybe something else can’t remember.

Ultimately, 3’s recipe was the most popular behind #1. Everyone was content that the event was even taking place during this time of year. Most had simply seen around campus the word FREE and travelled into a room with a montage of comedians, babies laughing, animals and deflated Barney floats. The atmosphere was carefully thought out between Daniela and myself to relax the student and let them take a load off for even a few minutes.

We interacted with students from faculties in both Art and Design. My ceramics prof, Robin, who frankly deserves a break above all other studio professors I have had – came to grab a tasty smoothie half way through the day.

Overall a great effort, and if we do this sort of thing again perhaps we could name the recipes, stock up in a measurably quantity, provide different videos on the projector, and market our event earlier so that the students can anticipate such an event. I think we purchased 200 cups and used over 150+ of them. Pretty good for a first time thing!

With the help of our coordinator Andrea Yip and my sister Sophie Morgan who is an Environmental Design student we ran the show for a positive two hours of a beautiful Tuesday afternoon.

Daniela Bratu is in Environmental Design in Second year and I, Anthony Morgan,  am in Industrial Design Fourth year hoping to graduate next year, 2014.

Can’t wait to do this again. Thanks to all who helped and enjoyed our effort.
Happy Exams!