WOOT! Finally the volunteering session has sadly passed away... Just a slight warning this is going to be a very long post. I will post the pictures letter because right now I did this in UTS library when I was supposed to be doing research for tomorrow's assignment (YES! Tomorrow's assignment!) :P
A~nyway, the helping out started om Friday, which was set-up day. Thinking that it might be a very busy job we ended up getting there on time but wasn't sure of how to get into the Townhall. Oo I should've established that I will be talking about the Animania volunteering experience. Right... so in the end we got nothing to do until all the stuff came. We did putting brochures and other 'junks' into the plastic bags that will be given to them on the day. That took long enough (pft yeah right!) We ended up finishing everything early. Of course what one has to do to amuse oneself from boredom. Indeed the game machines arrived! Alas! (note: we were unable to gain access to the upper level of the townhall where most of the actions will take place so we were stuck preparing stuff for downstairs which were merchandise and games section) it turned out to be quite fun indeed. Marina and I quickly grabbed the chance to played the Tekken arcade games when no one was looking or bored of the game so they scrambled away... Of course Nina always rules right Marina? :P hehe
Anyway there was nothing much to do besides helping Mum (a nick given to this guy named Muki who takes care of food etc at the festival apparently Dad only gave chocolates and sugar to those who are hungry :P although who can complain with that?!?) getting the food off a seafood shop at the qvb building. We didn't realised they provided food for the volunteers coz Marina and I were thinking of running away for a while to grab something to eat, in the end we didn't because they already provided food anyway.
Then there's the Saturday where everything starts to happen! We don't know what to expect since this was our first time volunteering. We were given the first duty of Cloak Room, it served the same purpose as storage location, where we put bags and other stuff people don't want to carry (and also weapons from cosplayers) and store 'em. And as I have said we didn't know what to expect. We were there early and then we were practically 'bored' when people haven't gone in. And then everything changed after they opened the door. I was in charge of registering the items. Basically what I had to do was getting their IDs and then tell them the policy (that Animania isn't liable for any damage or missing items from their properties) and assure them everything is safe after that :P and then ask them whether there's anything important within the properties etc, then assure them that once they put it in then check them out it is considered checking it out and therefore they have to pay again if they want to put them back, then I had to describe the items (but I was kinda relieved I didn't need to do most of the describing coz Marina and Cindy helped with it) then I had to sign the receipt and the registration. +__+ One advice I would give: do not do registration! Especially on the very first day. We were thinking maybe we could rotate the duties around but decided to stay with it coz it was getting really busy during our roster. Marina got the duty of grabbing the money and bags off of them and storing them away. Cindy got the duty of writing down receipts as well as telling the policy. Overall it was alright except everything gets a bit hectic and I did a huge stuff up when writing the number of the item (ie numbering them 0001, 0002 etc) +__+ which was greatly taken by Lexie for saying "it's alright" TT^TT (gomene~)
aah I should get back to my uni work... I shall finish this later on
peace out
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