Woke up at 8.10am and was supposed to meet the rest at 9.40am at parkway taxi stand but was 15+ min late (ended up stupidly waiting inside the mall instead of outside at the taxi stand so that accounts for the 5+ min). Signed the verification letters, took the merchandises and set off in pairs after an awkward briefing which lasted for 20 min. There was considerably less traffic in the morning obviously so we were all sian max and just situated at a traffic light to target those poor pedestrians. Got sick of it and left, walked around finding a nice settling spot (got my koi) and finally reached the back part of Rachel's church with pretty good traffic. She did most of the talking though, I just stood at a side and pose with the merchandises. About noon time (which was 2+ hours into our street sales), there were more people because church service ended and our tin got heavier (thank goodness rachel has good relations haha). Okay and for the remaining hour before lunch it was really just approaching people, asking for donation and thanking them even if they didn't donate. I'm really surprised by how some people just donate 10$ notes as if they're coins (because to me 10 bucks is a lot) and I'm reconsidering giving up on humanity. Feels good to see people donate generously and not asking for returns /merchandise. I need to learn from them!!
At 1pm it was the end of the first session so others left but rachel and I (who wanted to serve so much) had signed up for the second session (4 hours omg) so it was our lunch break. Went to cotton on to look at the sale items because duh it's GSS and got myself 3 pretty notesbooks and rachel got a kids water bottle (quite nice I'm regretting not buying). Spent like more than half of our lunch break there and then we headed to subway for their 5$ combo meals and me grossing rachel out by telling her I love ham because it looked like dogs' tongues. Ok I just thought it was cute. We talked a little and had to report back to the organizers late but they're kind of cool about it so. Then we started off our torturous 4 hour street sales which almost killed us. Had some funny encounters though like a man who dropped his iPad because he was trying to keep his wallet after donating. And I wished him to have a nice day before he dropped it haha the irony. Another encounter which made me slightly disheartened was that an aunty shouted at me (yes people turned to stare) when I offered help but she thought I wanted her to donate money.... Ok I felt embarrassed but at least I wasn't guilty of not trying to help. Anyway, then the 4 hours ended 'soon enough' after we went to get drinks and sat down for 20 min because we were seriously really really tired. End of story.
Now I'm having leg muscle cramps but I thought today was still a day well spent because I did it for a cause so yeap. Trying to catch up with my revision now because I'm lagging behind by a day on schedule (although I'm still slacking look at me blogging now when I should be revising). Okay that's all I'm kind of calmed now *zen* and the emotional posts for the past 2 days were products of my pms. Really.
