Have I been talking about how boring my position was and how hard I was trying to make the job more interesting. I was talking about the job enlargement, job rotation and job enhancement to make the job more desirable. Well since last week, I dont have to do that anymore. The reason is we are busier than ever before. This semester is going to be busier than we expected. Dont know the reason why, but each event we hold attracted more than double the number we used to. And that is very encouraging.
What is more, there are only several weeks away from the huge event we are going to hold called the International Food Bazzar. It is a fund raising events and we are going to have about 20 representitives of different countries and their food as well. This year, we are expeceting more than 2000 people and expecting a shortage of the food supply. That is beyond our expectation.
All above is going to make our preparation more demending which is very exciting. In the past when I was working in the reception, I do have time to do my own homework and so on. But right now, I am busy all afternoon. We are preparing the utensils, food, shirts, waters and other equipments. Promotion is also a huge part of the preparation. And we are facing not only the purdue university community, but also the lafayette and West lafayette community.
More exciting thing is I met the nicest couple working for the International Center. We had an amazing conversation not only trying to know each other, but also trying to solve some problems such as how to deal with the lack of representation from China. Since I am Chinese, and I know almost all the time why the problem exist. However, since there is culture boundery, for American, try to understand the core of the problem might be difficult. I am glad I contribute something for the events and the betterments of the International Center. I will update more information about the events.
That is cool to hear that you are participating in the International Food Bazar. I am too. And hopefully I will finish up my last few hours next Friday when I help out. Unfortunately, I won’t be attending the event because I will be working on Saturday but it sounds like a great time. The day before the event I will be loading up trucks with food at the International Center so that they can be taken to Saint Thom’s for the event. I am very curious about the event simply because of the large number of countries that will be represented. With such a large number, the event has to be good. It is interesting that you said the event became more popular this year. What do you think that is due to? Have you guys just done a better job of promoting the event or do you think it was so good last year that even more people wanted to come?
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