On May 17th, Saturday, Aylus participated in the Asian American Festival, which was located at 175 road, Port Washington. Our team of ten worked at a shed in one corner of the site. We have face painting, nchopsticks challenge, paper cutting, Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese Rubbing and Pot-tossing. There were so many kids in the activity and they loved our face painting, the two of us who were painting faces hardly stopped working. And the adults were interested in how to use chopsticks, our group members teached them some skills of using chopsticks patiently and nicely. Some adults who were proficient in using chopsticks were also keen to break the record of our team members. The two paper cutting team members carefully cut out many beautiful paper-cuts and hung them on the shed, attracting many visitors. And our Chinese Rubbing group also made many great watermark paintings on fans. Also the Chinese Calligraphy group fixed the problem of many people who don’t have a Chinese name, so they just use google translate to translate their names from many languages. Our pot-tossing group members also did a great job, since his work bunk wasn’t in our shed, he also took on the work of publicity. The children all liked him.
We think this event is a great opportunity to promote Chinese culture and we enjoy the activity. Community with the people from everywhere in the world is very good. And Aylus did a lot of good work in this event.
Reported by Jason Huang
Volunteers: Felicia Liu, Catherine Tao, Sabrina Yang, Crystal Chen, Yingxiang Liu, Yuya Liu, Jason Huang, Ryder Li, Melody Fan (6 hrs)
Kevin Zhang, Jolynn Li (4.5 hrs)