Mr Wall shut the door and
we were off through the school gates. We were a bit worried
about the traffic, but when we got through Earith we thought
it would be OK. We went through Bluntisham and Colne to
avoid chicken legs and concrete and two lorries stranded on
the A14.
We parked the car eventually
in the back entrance of Tesco. Staff showed us to the staff
training room and they then gave us an enormous badge with
Computers '97 for schools on it. We had to wait for
what felt like at least a year. All of sudden John Major
arrives with lots of other people and we all get our photo
taken with him. Your turn Emma.
Doughnuts
The staff then took
us to the restaurant and we had a nice doughnut or two. I
had two doughnuts they were lovely but very sticky and the
jam came squirting out very quickly. Now we are waiting,
because we are going on a tour of Tescos, and we are going
to see the computer room and have a look at the computers.
John Major has left. He came instead of Brian Mawhinney, and
I'm glad.
Clocking in
A nice lady showed
us round and we saw a man making doughnuts and how you put
the jam in, then she showed us the counters. She showed us
the security unit (There were a lot of computers.) If the
security broke Tesco would shut down because all the
organising the computers do would stop ordering new things
for the shelves. The lady was showing us how the
delivery section works. The fridge is huge they have huge
amounts of everything. The fresh fruit is kept in a slightly
warmer room. The people who work at Tescos have to clock in
and out for security reasons. There were air vents on the
roof but we weren't allowed to see them.
Batteries
Off we went back to
the refreshments room and found out that Tesco's earned a
million pounds a week. Everyone is trained in a special
room, and they have special handbooks as well. We have just
bought some batteries for the other mini computers to work,
but we looked at the wrong shelf for the price, so when the
lady at the checkout told Mr Wall the price, he thought it
was a different price to what it said on the shelf.
They sent someone to check the price on the shelf, and she
told us we had looked at the wrong shelf.
Engines
Now we are on
the way back to school, it's 11:33 and we are on the
Needingworth bypass. Michael, Richard and Mr. Wall
have been talking about engines and I haven't got a clue
what they have been going on about, so I have just been
writing on this little computer, but I know what they are
talking about now, they are talking about how to load this
up on to the big computer. Oh no they're back to engines
again. Never mind, over to you Richard.
Mr. Wall opened the school
gates and unfortunately we were back!!!!!!
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