Chinese New Year at the Library

On Saturday, the downtown library hosted a Chinese New Year celebration. Everyone and anyone who wanted to come was welcome. They had several Chinese themed activities, including writing banners for people in Chinese. (See the pictures below). In conjunction with this, the library also hosted their volunteer appreciation party. Since I am a volunteer, I was invited to this event. It was a lot of fun, as expected. I took mom with me, since we're allowed to bring a guest and it's so much more fun to go with others. They gave us all stickers with our Chinese horoscope animal on it. I am the year of the pig and mom is the year of the rabbit, although she thought she was the year of the ox. (Victoria is the year of the Ox). They had little place cards on all of the tables that had the qualities attributes of the people for all of the different animals. It was fun to read them all. They had some really nice food there as well. There was chocolate Costco cake, a cheese tray, a veggie tray, cookies, focacia bread, a shrimp tray, crackers, sushi and Martinelli's apple cider to drink. I don't think Mom or I have stuffed ourselves that much for a long time. It was wonderful! Then as we left the gave all of the volunteers a large Chinese take-out box with literary quote fortune cookies from the library store. All in all it was a lot of fun.

Attributes of a Year of the Pig person:

The Pig type is usually an honest, straightforward and patient person. They are a modest, shy character who prefers to work quietly behind the scenes. When others despair, they are often there to offer support. This type of person is reserved with those they do not know too well, but as time passes and they gain confidence, those around them may discover a lively and warm-hearted person behind that mask of aloofness. Despite those born in the year of pig having a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, they have few close friends who understand them and share their inner thoughts and feelings. It is easy to put trust in pig type; they won't let you down and will never even attempt to do so. Such people simply want to do everything right according to social norms.

It is important to remember that these people are not vengeful creatures. If someone tries to take advantage of them, the pig type tend to withdraw to reflect on the problem and protect themselves. All they need in such situations is a little time to find a constructive way to respond. The people of the pig type are conservative creatures of habit. They dislike being made to travel too far from familiar surroundings, unless it is a trip to the countryside. They love nature and are never happier than when they are out somewhere, far from the city.

There is a tolerant and peaceful side to their character. Such people are never afraid to allow others their freedom of expression; they do not want to cause arguments and if there is any way to avoid arguing, they will probably take this option. However, they are not weak and if the situation forces them to fight these people will rise to the occasion, whether it is to defend themselves or those close to them.

I think that is a really good summary of my character, for the most part. Below are some pictures that I took at the library. The first two of the President's Day display that Tommy and I created and the next two are of the Chinese New Year events at the library.