This is me in my Green Apple Festival volunteer/ staff shirt, and the Visionaire hat, in my humble room in Piscataway. (Because I never got a chance to take off my zip-up hoodie earlier today...) This is my day:
I woke up at 7:10AM today, called Knight Mover at 7:21 AM, took the train and got to New York at 9:15 AM; that's an hour and 15 minutes earlier than I had planned! In other words, I woke up 20 minutes earlier than yesterday, and got to New York an hour earlier!
(I woke up earlier, because the Pope was coming in town, living somewhere around 72nd street and between 5th and Madison Ave, the same place I had to meet up with the volunteer coordinator.)
When I got to Central Park, there were runners finishing a race, free Cliff bars, free Snapple Antioxidant water, T-shirts (but I didn't take one, because I wasn't part of it). I walked around, smiled at people, gave kids with metals (from the children race) a smile of approval, and kids without metals a smile of "you are cute," all of this just made me more excited for MY event.
It was in the low fifties (12°C the wind made it feel like 9°C according to weather.com), I was dressed in a thin tank top and a thin zip-up hoodie, inappropriate for the cold weather. However, I was so excited, the weather did not bother me... well, it did not bother me at first.
I got to the volunteer booth early, met Grier, helped her set up the booth, separate the volunteer / staff shirts into different sizes, met Lily, helped her lay out the programs, stood around, and got cold because I wasn't moving. I look to the Starbucks booth, they were giving out free coffee, their newest coffee. Coffee is warm, but I don't drink coffee. After a few minutes, a guy from Starbucks came and catered hot coffee to me and the other volunteers that arrived. I took a cup, held it in my hands, had a sip, and thought coffee was better in my hands.
The SoyJoy crew came, they were in the same booth as us. They gave out free SoyJoy bars, so I gave out programs and SoyJoy bars. I also filled out many SoyJoy postcards, only to find out that I didn't have some of my friends' addresses memorized. I guess I'll give the cards to them in person. It's more meaningful in person, right?
(Here's an extra picture with artist merch, the program, and the Mother Goose Sculpture. I wasn't sure where it belongs in this entry)
So I'm not a very hard working volunteer (I'm going to make the argument that the weather was still cold, so we didn't have a lot of attendants yet.) I asked to leave the booth to
Go to the bathroom (I really had to go! Especially after having coffee, a diuretic)
Go see Vienna Teng Perform (She's the only artist I know on the list!)
Here's a video of Vienna playing Blue Caravan, joking about how this can be used as a shark conservation theme song
(This is a video of Vienna singing One Bedroom, One Bath; funny lyrics!)
Many people were excited about The Bacon Brothers, so I decided to check them out too.
I have more videos to share, but I'm about to exceed my bandwidth.
Bacon Brothers Videos: I, II, III. Uploading to Youtube kept failing.
After my shift, it was in the low sixties (17°C!), I visited various booths, got a free beets plant, walked in the Burt's Bees tent, got free samples, a wildflower bookmark, a free book about Pine Trees (with colored illustrations!), learned about swimming, waves, clouds from NASA publications, used up all my memory card, and finally left Central Park.
Got back at 4 PM. Not bad at all for a full day of events at New York City!
p.s. I will share the Bacon Brothers videos and one more Vienna Teng video when I have them uploaded!
Uploading to Youtube kept failing. 
