Here is Taiwan Day Carnival

August 3rd to me is another wonderful day as well, except I was a little bit exhausted (because I need to wake up at 7 AM, which I overslept for 30 minutes...XD), and except the political tendency is a little bit different from mine XD But overall, people there are quite friendly and nice, they actually did not mention our former Mr. President that much in public.

I was at the Bobolink Park since maybe 9:30 AM, arranging the chairs and later being the one selling the coupons for others. As their volunteers, we can have $10CAD from them to purchasing stuff there. They had roughly 20 something booths, most of which are food, as you can see from my picasa album. Since it is Taiwan Day Festival (or Carnival, whatever...), the food sold there are all traditional Taiwanese cuisines, such as Taiwanese meat ball, rice dumpling, cold noodles, various rice cakes, even the wheeled-shaped cake!!!!! You should know how I miss them!!!! Though I stayed there for over 7 hours, I was really happy and had a lot of the so-called "rewards." In addition to the $10CAD coupon that I used to buy rice dumplings, wheel-shaped cake, glutinous oil rice, and rice noodles, they also gave me some extra stuff, such as lunch box with pork spareribs, sugarcoated haws on a stick, vegetables, Starbucks coffee, kimchi, crackers, and sandwiches. I also took the free World Journal, on which I may be able to find some job opportunity. I even played hula hoop with little kids XD

Initially when I saw the yellow pin, out of curiosity I put it on my chest.After realizing it is for Mr. Chen, I took it off from my chest XD. We had some leaflet promoting their activities on our booth desk. Most people felt ok / nothing with the leaflet, yet I did encounter few people who came to our desk for buying coupons showed their disagreement on their face and even did not want to buy coupons when realizing what the leaflet is about XD Under such circumstance, What I can do was nothing but merely try to comfort them by saying that this is only for reference and you don't have to agree with that...XD I also told them that "see...I don't wear the pin either (smile XD)" This is really interesting experience to me haha...

Overall today is a wonderful day to me, though I needed to wake up early and worked as their activity volunteers, staying there for more than 7 hours. Actually I did know some volunteers did not stay as long as I did; yet, after all, I wasn't busy, thus I stayed there almost at the end of the whole activity, helping them to recover the site. By the way, I need to thank my U-Pass, the almost-omnipotent bus and skytrain ticket. With U-Pass, I don't have to pay any extra money for taking the bus and skytrain. The fee is completely covered in my tuition. I love it haha!!!