I found peace in the park

There are a lot of options to spend your weekend, some of you prefer to stay at home, some prefer to hang out with family or best friends, some may do their groceries shopping, some prefer to do the household on this day, and some prefer to do voluntary work. Those things are absolutely fun things to do. We chose the last option as the things to do on the weekend.

We did volunteer work with One Brick for the event "peace in the park" which took place Saturday 24 August 2013 at Golden Gate Park. We required to be on spot before 9am, we set off around 7.30am and managed to get there at 8.30am, yes we were early, but thats the girls in my house do, always come earlier! So proud of you girls ^^

Not long after than Suzanne our coordinator showed up, she gave us some instruction about what to do, was basically help with tent setting, table and chairs setting, lift stuff or food. Gave any help for those needed help. Also, she asked us to help with the volunteer registration, gave away volunteer t-shirt and meals. It was fun and we glad that we could at least help. Victor, one of the Brazilian also came to help on the voluntary work, it was very nice of him as he wasn't required to do the volunteer as he doesn't belong to CCIP students, but he did anyway.

These are the photos in that day

Tari, Ana and Me at Volunteer Booth

Some of the volunteer team "Peace in the park"

The event is called "Peace in the park" because it's about the activities to lead you to find your inner peace, happiness, things that make you feel better and feel the balance of life. There are yoga, wishing tree, face painting, and many more. It's one of the event organized by big Indian/Hindu community. I spotted Indonesian Booth, Shadow puppet making, where I met Sarah and her daughter Nia. They had been living in Bali for 3 years and now they are in the "Sanggar Budaya Bali" near Berkeley.

I was very happy to meet them, especially Nia, she is very nice and cute. She is 8 years old and she already started to learn Balinese dance, I was amazed. I became more amazed when I saw the Balinese dancer, dancing on the stage, they aren't Indonesian. Amazing! The moved perfectly, they danced Balinese dance perfectly. I'm Indonesian but I can't dance Balinese, I feel ashamed. They are American but they dance Indonesian perfectly. I should have learned it before I came. I always think that Balinese dance is very beautiful, My mom used to dance Balinese dance. I wasn't interested to dance when I was kid, I prefered to play Basketball anyway. Yeah well, now I regret it :(

How envy I was, seeing these beautiful ladies dance Balinese

Balinese dance

I found a peace seeing them dancing Balinese, I found a peace when I heard Balinese gamelan playing, I found peace when I was doing my volunteer work, I found peace when I helped others and seeing their happy face. I found peace and happiness when I hold 'Nia' a lovely little girl whom I met in the  event. I don't need to take Yoga class or whatever, I found my peace in that park easily :D