Sunday, September 20, 2015 "Autumn Festival."

Sunday, September 20, 2015
Week: 6
Songs to Remember: Moonlight Sonata - Bigstar

        I'm not sure if I should be grateful that I went and did the community service by helping out setting up the "mid-autumn festival".

        First of all, I had to wake up at 9:30 AM. It's 2 hours more than when I wake up for school. I'd still prefer the 3 hours than 2. After getting directions from Google Maps, I arrived to what looked like a really bootleg like, "antique" houses place. Like, a place where they keep and restore houses from like the 1900's to today. It looked like that.

        I was like "Am I at the right place?". Only until I walked in a bit further did I find out it was. Very different than what I was expecting. I signed in, etc, etc, Apparently we all had assigned jobs to do, I didn't know that, so I was like "Hey, I don't have a job". So, the coordinator person (what surprised me the most during this whole place was how well the elderly Chinese people spoke English. Did not expect they were American. In fact, there was a shit ton of Chinese American people, who spoke very good English.).

        I basically worked the whole day as the coordinator's assistant, along with this one girl who was president of our school's Chinese Club (the one who gave us the opportunity to do this service in the first place). She's a senior apparently. When the coordinator didn't need me, I sat at the table near the front, next to the museum (actually pretty cool, it's like a Chinese history museum).

        I conversed with that Pt (just calling her that for now because it's sounds kinda weird if I just refer to her as "that girl"), conversed with the coordinator's friend who was also there to help out. Apparently she took Biology, talked a bit about it, I was like "Holy shit, I'm getting the talks about Biology with this elderly Chinese American woman while doing community service at a bootleg Chinese festival). Also the coordinator reminded me of my 7th grade P.E teacher.

        I basically had to make my own friends there, one being Pt and the other being this one dude, he's a boy scout, there was a boy scout group doing community service here too. He's in 8th grade, lives in another city, goes to a different set of schools. He reminded me of Bl, the one in my Biology class, so, we got a along together pretty well towards the end.

        It was hot, even in the shade. And where was the cast at? They were all together, doing bootleg origami at the children's activities tables, while I sat and had to survive for 5 hours, at the front table, being needed by the coordinator every so often. Along with Pt and Bl. There was one instance where she got Pt and I to meet a "politician". I'm guessing he was pretty well-known, I never heard of him, I think he spoke once at one math-tutoring day.

        There was food. Pizza, and, barely any water. It was free, and all volunteers got a free scoop of ice cream, so that was nice. I also got a nice convo (well, more like listening session) to a dude who was like, pretty successful. He was volunteering at the festival and he worked for the government once, did financing, studies in like microbiology, I was like "Damn". Pretty cool.

        The whole festival was pretty, bootleg. There was a bootleg story-telling part, where a dude reads a story to kids or something, children activities which consisted of like, coloring, origami, lantern-making. There were some performances by some dragon dancers, bootleg math people showing abacuses and mental math, etc.

        In the end, I did experience something new, and I did recieve (from a select few) a gift-card, $5 for Starbucks, a melted extra-large Hershey's bar, free pizza (4 count) and a single bottle of water. Was it worth it? Ehhhhh. It's something I'd do once a year, thank you, heh, but that's about it. Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta read chapters 1-3 of The Scarlet Letter, review it, and study some vocabulary words for the holy shit amount of tests and quizzes I'm having this week. Oh and uh, it's 11:15 PM. See ya.