Saturday, April 13, 2013

Night Market!


Today was absolutely ridiculously busy. Such an amazing day, but completely hectic.

Woke up for class, went to COS and econ. COS was actually pretty fun - I do like regular expressions. They're like mini mind-twisters haha. So many levels! But it's fun - I think this was one of the precepts I enjoyed the most.
Got the econ midterm back. Once again, made a completely stupid mistake which lost me 2 points - completely read the question wrong. The others I lost I actually didn't know how to do though, so whatever. Still a decent score.

And thus started the crazy day.

Grabbed a really quick 15 min lunch, headed up to Labyrinth to pick out picture books! TASA's doing Read, Record, Replay, where we make audio tapes of (usually) picture books and send them along with the book to underprivileged elementary school children. Labyrinth was absolutely amazing and just told us to pick any books from certain shelves. We ended up with 101 books, including Dr. Seuss and Winnie-the-Pooh. I'm so excited for this!

Headed over to East Pyne to start setting up for Night Market. Made a few rather cute signs, with Taiwan-asaurus Rex, Domo, and Doraemon drawn on them haha. Helped string up lanterns - everything looked pretty awesome.

Ran/biked to Frick to give a chem tour. I didn't know much about independent work and the labs, but thankfully I gave the tour with a junior, Emily, who fielded all of those questions. I just really answered any questions I could and talked to people about everything in general. I really just love seeing what people are interested in - I think it definitely helped our tour just in the sense that I was always talking to someone about something haha.

Headed to Dillon Gym for Activities Fair. Saw Frank there!!! Spent a good hour walking around distributing Night Market postcards and essentially badgering prefrosh (and students even) to come to Night Market haha. It was pretty chill - signed up for the Bartending 101 thing too. We'll see if I actually do that; I do think it would be fun.


Went back to East Pyne, set up tables/chairs. We had a one-hour "break" during which we took tons of postcards and shoved them under the doors of dorms haha. Also grabbed a quick dinner at RoMa. Headed back to East Pyne to put some finishing touches and help people set up.

The next 3 hours were a complete blur. Selling tickets, selling boxers, drinking ai yu and eating delicious Asian food, talking to Brandon/Lawrence/Kathryn... Saying hi to people and chatting. There were SO many people. A bit bummed I didn't really get to see the performances, but I DID get to talk to the performers. They were all super nice and thankful to be there, which was absolutely amazing.

Cleaning up was sort of a hassle but TASA works so well together. People were being super efficient helping one another fold/carry tables and chairs, roll marley, scrub the floors... It's absolutely amazing how well we work together - everyone's so supportive and willing to do anything to make everything better. I sincerely love TASA so much.


Had a half hour break before a TASA chilldown, so we actually went to an arch sing in Blair. Had enough time to see the Nassoons and KJ perform before we headed off. Every time I go to an arch, I sincerely wish I knew how to sing... They're just so absolutely amazing; I don't even understand.

TASA chilling was pretty fun. A lot of bantering; we watched a bit of HIMYM and had champagne. Which "doesn't count as drinking, because it's classy." Haha, in any case, I definitely don't like the taste of anything alcoholic, even as mildly alcoholic as champagne. Took a sip just to toast the TASA team, then proceeded to extremely dilute the rest with apple juice. xD

Night Market was ridiculously successful - over 1,100 (we tallied 1,134 but probably missed a few) attendees, the performers were great, the food was delicious (as usual), and it was super amazing. Definitely weird to think that one year ago, I was a prefrosh being insanely excited about Night Market when I learned about it at the Activities Fair, chilling with people I had just met the day before while listening to music and watching performances at this event that I now helped coordinate and set up. Absolutely insane.

Came back and had a pretty nice suite/prefrosh conversation. =]

It's been such a great day, I can't even express how absolutely happy and at peace I am.

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