Sunset Cruise in San Francisco

SUNSET CRUISE

San Francisco, 2012

Volunteer - Sausalito Art Festival(9/1-3)

Sausalito Art Festival

The Sausalito Art Festival is one of the first juried fine art festivals in the nation.

Over one million visitors from throughout the world have attended the Sausalito Art Festival since its inaugural event in 1952. Sausalito has been the focal point for artists for close to 200 years. Weekend painters first arrived by sailboat from San Francisco in the early 1800's to capture scenes of tall ships and nature against the majestic backdrop of the bay(referred to Art Festival website)

I found this volunteering on the internship in the same way as I explained in the last posting. Sausalito is one of my favorite places in San Francisco so I applied right away. Another benefit is admission fee is free as a volunteer!

This festival was pretty big so they needed lots of volunteers with lots of volunteer positions. I was so surprised about the number of their positions compared to the Stern Grove festival.
But, the funny thing was most of positions related to alchol like wine, beer and cocktail were already occupied by early birds. Those positions were the most popular positions I guessed!





I also applied for the winery booth because I enjoyed wine at that time. They didn't allow us to drink but at the end of the day, I drank a glass of wine and also got a souvenir! Also, I learned a little bit about the kinds of wines.

My wine booth

MOSCATO!!

What is funnyyyy???

I'm explaining what kinds of wines we have!!

Concert:) so packed with people!!

Souvenir^^*

Here, U can enjoy yourself with various kinds of arts and crafts. Also, different kinds of food with picturesque view on the sunny days. Another thing I like at this festival was I met a lot of people there and talk a lot! I was a little bit afraid of selling the wines(Because my english was not perfect!) but the manager of that booth praised my english so I was happy hehe:) (but still struggling with them u.u)

I know internship life is kinda busy but sometimes this experience will give you the experience to real American life and meeting nice people! 

Go for it ! U should try it !

Volunteer - Stern Grove Festival

Volunteering story is coming back! 

Based on my personality, I don't like just staying at home and doing nothing special(only sometimes good) so I was looking for something interesting activities when I got in San Francisco first. I searched everyday with the keyword, "Things to do in San Francisco". I checked festivals, musicals, events or meet up!

And I found this "Stern Grove Festival" in Sunset area and I filled out the form as a volunteer. 

Stern Grove Festival Association is a non-profit organization committed to providing the people of the Bay Area with admission-free access to diverse performing arts.

As soon as I filled out them, I got an confirmation e-mail so that I can join the volunteering on designated date. I like music so much so I can volunteer and also enjoy the music they perform at the same time! Yay! I selected the date performing opera when I can enjoy the music in the forest. It sounded to me FANTASTIC!! 

Entrance

San Francisco OPERA

Volunteer Minji No!! 2012

What I did as a volunteer was to promote people to donate for this festival. If someone donate, they give a sticker as a sign of a contributor(how smart it is). Therefore, we should find someone without a sticker and encourage them to donate! That was my duty!

This festival had been held every weekend for almost 2 months. I have been twice, one for volunteering and one for a picnic from my internship company. The second time there with coworkers was the last day of the festival when OK GO band performed! I didn't know that band before but I heard pretty famous here.

my ex coworkers

OK GO! band

Can U see the hundreds of people there????

If you wanna make your internship life more vivid, why don't you check out this kinda volunteering activities?

Here is the address. ->  http://www.sterngrove.org

This festival holds every year so you can join maybe next year if you stay here in San Francisco until then.