Day 34 - April 28, 2007

SATURDAY -- This day, I worked from 12:30pm until closing time at 6pm. The girls and I are going out to dinner at Koreatown, as my send-off party. It's sad to think that it is my last Saturday working as an intern at the Children's Room, but I all good things come to an end.

I worked on finding more resources for my pathfinder most of the afternoon, finally giving it a rest around 2:30pm since I figured I have a few more days to finish it. I then helped out with setting up the tables for storytelling and the crafts the children will make after. Around 3:0opm, I decided to also make the windsock that the children made. I enjoyed doing the craft. The windsock is made out of brown paperbags, yarn, ribbons and die-cut figures. I chose buterflies, flowers and ribbons to make mine. See below:

After painstakingly designing my windsock, I processed more of the new boardbooks I processed last week. I spent the rest of the day stamping and barcoding them. During downtime, I chatted with Miss Daisy, Lyda, and Arpine. It turns out, not everyone can come to dinner with us. Of the girls on duty, only Arpine, Lynn and her boyfriend Mike can come. Cecile and her husband Andrew are meeting us after the library closes. Brandy and her boyfriend, Carlo, will meet us at Mu Dung San. We all ate very little for lunch so that at 6pm we were starving and ready to chow.

We got to the restaurant at 7pm and we had a great time barbequeing and eating endless plates of meat. While eating, I told them that since the internship is almost over, I wanted to come clean and let them know that it was not an internship I was actually doing, but a court sentence to do community service. It was precious to see the disbelief in their faces, especially Brandy's. Then I laughed and said...just kidding! After dinner, we decided to get some Pink Berry frozen yoghurt, the taste that launched a thousand parking tickets. We sat there for a time chatting some more and then left for home.

I did not get home until 11:30pm. I had a wonderful time with the library crew and their partners. Already I am thinking that I will most definitely miss working with these lovely people but like I told them over dinner, it's not like I am moving to another plannet. I live in the same city and I have to borrow and return books to the library every so often so I'm sure to see them again. Who knows, I might get hired soon as a part-time librarian.