Hey everyone! Today is our last full day of collection donations, which means that tonight is our last night sleeping in the library, although we will probably be back on Friday and Saturday to catch up on everything we missed while spending all our time in the library.
The day started off on a high note, we awoke this morning to find a cake on our table! Our library’s Head of Access Service, Scott McKenzie, who has been so helpful, accommodating and just generally wonderful, bought us and the other volunteers a cake to share. There was so much that we ended up giving most of it away to donors when they donated $2 or more.
In honor of it being Chinese New Year, well in China since they are a day ahead… One of our volunteers is from China and she created some posters in Chinese which we posted around the school. And she surprised us by showing up with a bag of Chinese “lucky treat” which we promptly consumed. One of the volunteers who was sub-ing for Laura today is also Chinese and he taught me a little something so here it goes: SHIN NIAN HOW! and GUNG HAY FAT CHOY!
We had a volunteer call in sick a few hours before her shift, luckily, Laura and I have awesome friends. The day prior, a volunteer told us she would be unable to attend her shift today, luckily my friend Yvee stopped to study and started chatting with us, and offered to help out. While she was filling in for that shift, one of our other volunteers came and and said she would be unable to come to her shift, so Yvee took that one as well. Love you Yvee!
I don’t think either of us have mentioned it, but we have one visitor who comes by everyday and donates $2, he also hands out poetry to people. Today he brought us a poem about us and live in for literacy. It was a very sweet gesture, and he brought apples!
I was pleasantly surprised also when a staff member from our student-run campus radio station came by for an interview! Hopefully maybe a few people will read it and donate even though the event is technically over. Also our radio station replayed Laura’s interview today!
Our total amount of non-Canadian(and american since I’m sure you all noticed that half our change is American..) coins goes as follows and (does include what we had previously): 2.75 yuan from China, 20 sentimo from the Philipines, 0.29 pence from Britain, 2 rupees, 10 cents from Korea, 161 yen from Japan, 25 cents Euro, and 20 sen from Malaysia, The best coins that were donated to us today were…. 7 Cineplex Odeon game tokens and 1 car wash token.
Finally I would also like to thank the keeners who were still in the library at 11:30 today, if it wasn’t for you than we wouldn’t have raised $900.79!!!!! After our final count we were at $891.75 and we are so thankful that those who were still here chipped in what they could to help us break nine hundy!
So, if you haven’t already done the math, this brings our grand total to $3464.00!
We’re hoping to get the $536 that we need to get $4000, and since we aren’t packing up until about 630 I think we can do it, but who knows…
Stay tuned for our final post, complete with grand total (complete with recalc).
