OACA Parcitipated the Ethnic Celebration Event

On Mar 11th, Olympia Area Chinese Association (OACA) participated in the Ethnic Celebration event located at Saint Martin's University. This was a very good opportunity to introduce OACA and our Chinese School to the public. 

This year, we provided 3 activities, like we did last year:
1. writing Chinese names with Chinese Calligraphy
2. chopsticks challenge of picking up differently shaped candy
3. stamping Chinese Zodiac signs on "passport" cards and name slips

Additionally, we added one more activity - learning and practicing to write Chinese number characters with brushes and water.

More than 260 people visited our booth to try the activities listed above. 212 people requested a Chinese Name this year. It beats our record.

9 volunteers/board members helped out OACA booth.

HUGE THANKS to

Michael Chen, Jianfeng Wu, Jenny Gao, WeiHuang Li, Wenjun Li, Caroline Sun, Guorong Liu, Weihua Yao, Wenjun Gu, Zhuo Ding, Wendy Seid, Haisheng Mou, and Gang Ma.

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A sample name slip we wrote to people.

The Chinese Zodiac stamp based on the person's birth year is included.

A poster showing how to use chopsticks.

A poster showing the matrix of the Chinese Zodiac stamps and the corresponding birth years.

People can find their own zodiac easily.

  

A sample sheet for people learning and writing the numbers the special sheet.

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This is the year of the Rooster. OACA provided these items listed below to City of Lacey to display at Olympia Mall for promoting this Ethnic Celebration event:

  

Chinese Knot (inside is a big ancient Chinese coin) and cute rooster

Displaying in Olympia Mall