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February 4, 2010
Anterpreet Kaur
Interact Club is preparing for its annual Elegant Affairs Community Event to be hosted Feb. 12. Unlike other community service events, this event offers the volunteers double hours. The volunteers will be completing only six and a half hours from 5:00 to 11:30 p.m., but they will be awarded 13 hours.
“We will be helping out with various tasks during the dinner. This event is a little dressier than some of other events: black pants for males and black dresses for females are required,” senior Interact president Angela Chu said.
However, she knows many female volunteers will instead wear dress pants, so there is not much stress over attire.
Furthermore, the volunteers at Elegant Affairs will get free food.
“Usually, the event coordinators are extremely generous, and we get pizza and desserts, which the cooks prepare at the place. So, it’s bound to be good,” Chu said.
Freshmen are especially looking forward to volunteering at Elegant Affairs for their first time.
“My friends and I are already planning on carpooling to the event, and what we are going to wear,” freshman Homaira Anwari said. “I have volunteered in a few places before, but we never got double hours. I think [the double hours] is the greatest motivation to attend.”
Previous volunteers said that the challenge definitely comes with being able to stay up that late at the event.
“By the end of the event, I was extremely tired and felt really lazy,” previous Interact Club treasurer Avtar Josen said. “But, at the end of the day, it was totally worth it for the thirteen hours of community service.”
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