Today is the university preview day as well as the IA bazaar ( a students’ arts and crafts sales event) day. My friend, Ruby, rent half of a table to sell handmade red bean Mochi and Pastry. Mochi is a traditional Japanese dessert with glutinous rice paste outside and sweet stuffing inside. The flavors of Mochi stuffing can be red bean, green tea, lotus root, coffee, etc. I went to Ruby’s suite to help her make Mochi in the morning. We used steamed red bean as stuffing, and shaped the dough into heart, star and bear shapes. The dough was so sticky that it was hard to knead. Ruby is professional doing that process, while I could only help with shaping Mochi. It took us the whole morning to make Mochi, but we had fun. We made about 50 Mochis and a plate full of red bean pastries.
The tables of IA bazaar were located on the green near University Center. The weather was good since it was sunny outside, though a little bit chilly. Most of the tables had already been set up when we got to the green. Some girls were selling bracelets and handmade earrings. Our IA president Bjoern was selling knitted gloves made by his mom. Matt was shaping balloons into all kinds of hats. I got a blue and red bow-knot one. Also, there were other students who were tabling for their own art works and foods. After walking around all the tables, we came back to set up ours. Ruby set the price for both Mochi and pastry at 50 cents each. The business went well. It was pleasant to see people enjoy our desserts. We also had some good conversations with prospective students and their parents. One girl, who showed interest in Asian languages and cultures, said she would like to study Japanese. Ruby’s Mochi and Pastry business turned out to be a great success, so was our IA Bazaar. It was the first event organized by Initial Advantage this semester. We will have several more event in the following weeks, such as the I&E (Innovation and Entrepreneurship) department monthly dinner with our guest AJ Vaynerchuk, who will talk about social media and how he has started the website www.pleasedress.me. If you are interested in knowing more about AJ, please check out www.ajvaynerchuk.com. If you are interested in I&E monthly dinner, which is open to all Clark students, fell free to email me for more details.
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- Last post - April 25th, 2009
- Intramural Soccer Game, IA End of Year Party, and Open House - April 19th, 2009
- Spree Day and Men's Tennis Game - April 12th, 2009
- Entretour and International Gala - April 5th, 2009
- Worcester Consortium Career Fair, and IA events - March 29th, 2009
- Hip-hop, Ladies Night, and Volunteer - March 23rd, 2009
- Spring break and "Clark Bike Share" - March 16th, 2009
- Spring break! - February 28th, 2009
- Equestrian Show at U-Mass - February 23rd, 2009
- Horse Riding and Masquerade Ball - February 16th, 2009
- Intramural Basketball Game - February 8th, 2009
- Peace Project and GSP Academic Panel - February 1st, 2009
- Obama is in office! & Happy Chinese New Year! - January 26th, 2009
- Welcome Back - January 20th, 2009
- Last week of classes - December 14th, 2008
- Ginger Bread House Build Off - December 7th, 2008
- Happy Thanksgiving - November 30th, 2008
- International Journey, Thanksgiving dinner and Peapod Squad Improv Show - November 23rd, 2008
- Financial crisis forum and a visit to a quilt store - November 16th, 2008
- Newport and presidential election - November 9th, 2008
- Halloween! - November 2nd, 2008
- a busy and fulfilled week - October 25th, 2008
- Barn visit and soccer game ( My friends won by 7:2!!!) - October 12th, 2008
- First Post on Clark Diaries! - October 5th, 2008
