Day 36 || Christmas Time

Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.

~Carrie Latet

Christmas has been always my all time favorite season. Time of sharing, time of caring, time of giving bundled in one special day. No matter how many times I had known Christmas, I had never gotten bored of celebrating it, even if it is just a small visit to Church, it kept me awake throughout the night.

Taiwanese, whose majority are Buddhist and Taoist, did not celebrate Christmas much. It is really hard to find a protestant church around the city. Even though I am not a Christian-addict, going to church on Christmas was something I find it necessary. Kiki brought me to Church on Christmas eve to a catholic church (note that it is a catholic church XD, all protestant churches were closed by the time we went to visit at 10.00pm).

In the morning, I was so nervous whether I could do a good job in delivering Christmas spirit to the elderly that I wrote the whole script. From sentences to movement haha..just want it to be perfect.

The program starts with the typical health check up, and then a teacher came to talks about caring for the environment. And then my event starts at 10.00 am. It was really hard to catch their attention at first as they were all busy chatting,but thanks to Teacher Cai, she helped me throughout my presentation.

I have never seen of how a good teamwork could easily win a battle, till today. Volunteers around...starting from the usual elderly volunteers to my working colleagues sacrifice their time to help me through the activity. Never thought that the whole event took 1 hour 30 minutes. I should have prepared more carefully and complete next time.

During the process, I could see myself getting stressed.

Ina .. need more string
Ina .. how to do this
Ina .. I can't write
Ina .. help me to sew
Ina .. I can't put the string to the needle

I should have attached the string to needle before handing them out XD
Other than that, I really enjoyed every second of it. From presenting what Christmas is all about, writing down their wishes, helping them to sew and paste, and seeing them hanging the ornament on a Christmas tree .. .. :)

Really want to say thank you for the helpers that have made this come true.

Can't wait for my next assignment on 5th and 12th January. Masquerade time~~~