Section LC21

On November 17, 2009, Lc 21 and Lc 22 had a bake sale for UNICEF.  I brought chocolate chip cookies for the bake sale, because I didn’t really know what to bring.  During the club hours time on Tuesday, I went to the bake sale to check a couple of times to see if I can help with the bake sale, but everyone was assigned to specific jobs already.  Therefore, I do not have a specific job.  I believe the hard part was to make people donate for the cause, because they simply do not care.  People should care about our bake sale, because it was for UNICEF, not for ourselves.

Date attended: November 17

On Tuesday I went to the UNICEF bake sale, and I was pretty excited about it, because I wanted to see how bake sales operate at Baruch. Unfortunately I didn’t get to spend as much time there as I would have liked; I simply dropped off my contribution of plates and napkins, and left. I liked the sign that one of the students in the other LC made–the one with the giant cupcake–I thought it was pretty cool that people would go all out just for a bake sale. The cupcakes and cakes looked really good, but I was surprised at how much we were selling them for. At $1.75 per cupcake, I would be shocked if even a couple people would buy from us. I was actually considering buying one until I saw the price tag–but I understand that it’s difficult to raise money, especially for a cause like this, so it’s typical that people would hike the prices. But in my opinion, roughly two bucks for a cupcake is too much.

I heard that there were leftovers sold for really cheap, like 10 cents for a cupcake or something like that, and I guess I was a bit disappointed that I wasn’t there to get get some of the leftovers. In the end, I received this rather large bag which contained more plates and napkins that I had originally brought, so it’s funny that I profited from that.

I hope the bake sale was successful and raised a decent amount of money for UNICEF 🙂

So….yesterday was the bakesale to raise money for Unicef and I believe we made about $140 in about 2 to 3 hours of selling and I got to say, “Good Job Everyone!”.  I had a fun time selling baked goods to all baruch students and staff.  Some people ignored me when I advertised my baked goods and others were very friendly about it.  For the most part, many people donated money when being offered a bake good in return and rejected it.  I’m glad to see people be so nice as to just even donating a quarter.  When I was advertising and selling a cookie for a dime, some lady just walked up to the cookie platter, reached for a cookie and I said, “A cookie for a dime :)” and she took her hands back and walked away…..I’m assuming she thought the cookie was free and that was quite an embarrassing situation.  Overall, the bakesale went well and hope I get a chance to do this again in the near future.

On Tuesday November 17th, there was a bake sale for UNICEF right next to the escalators on the second floor. I has made cake pops with Helen and Shyang during the weekend. I had also volunteered us for the fliers and donation box but in the end never got to it, unfortunately.
So anyways out class was let out late and when we got tot he tables, it was already set up and ready for manning, if that’s the phrase for it. It was pretty cool seeing all the random people who were willing to pay sigh steep prices (in my opinion of course) for the goods. There weren’t much people and I was pretty disappointed at the progress of the rate of our bake sale but when I had went back to the table at the end of club hours, almost everything had been sold. It seemed to have been a very successful bake sale and I would definitely want to do it again sometime in the future.
After reading all the other blogs from other people, it seems that I have missed out on a bunch of things. Hopefully next time I could stay longer and help out more as well.

Anyways .. time for the pictures! 😀

PS: I have to say the person who created the banner on the bottom left picture definitely did a wonderful job; the poster is so cute!

The bake sale was held on November 17, 2009 at 12:30PM. My job on the list was to man the table for the first session with Michelle (12:45~1:15), which I did, and I also baked “cake/ball pops” with Michelle and Shyang. I’m not sure how well those sold, but the baking process was definitely an interesting experience. Oh, and I also bought a fruit tart, which was absolutely delicious by the way. Kudos to whoever bought those in! On another note, I feel sad because I wish I stayed at the bake sale longer. Reading the previous entries makes me jealous. It sounds like things started picking up towards the end.

Anyway, I’m glad our LC had the experience of participating in this bake sale. It was definitely nice to do something for a great cause.

On November 17th of 2009, there was a bake sale for the global cause of UNICEF. It started from 12:30 till around 2:15. The table was already set up and all of the baked goods were out and ready by the time I reached the second floor. I wanted to help contribute money however, I didn’t have enough money on me and barely had enough for lunch. I found a nickel in my wallet and donated it even though it wasn’t much. Me and a bunch of the other guys helped advertise for the bake sale. We brought the baked goods to different areas such as to the game room in hopes of selling it away. I felt proud when I sold five cupcakes for twenty-five cents each in less than five minutes during the closing time. My job was to help clean the tables as the bake sale was closing down.