AASU Car Wash

So on Sunday was the Asian American Student Union Car Wash.

Now I’ll admit, initially, this idea didn’t sound too appealing. My friends and I were out until about 4 in the morning, and smelling like we’d been out til then too. Getting up at 8 to shower to get dirty again washing cars . . . . . not too fun.

Until we got there of course! Suddenly the sun was shining and we were teaming up to tackle cars and advertise. And though you might think that standing on a street corner yelling, “CAR WASH” is pretty tedious, its actually not. It was interesting to see who would respond to that kind of advertising! And everybody had their own way of going about it as well . . . . one kid rolled up his pants and held the sign with CAR WASH written on it in a way that looked as though he was wearing nothing but the sign. It got a lot of laughs from all of us and even from some total strangers.

I wasn’t terribly efficient at the actual car washing, but I quickly learned the tricks of advertising on the street corner and I was put to use. The others however worked like a machine, with each kid taking initiative to get something done. Most people were pretty pleased with the job we had done with their cars, and tipped us well. This is the kind of thing that encourages you to do it again, to spend a day in the sun getting bugs out of peoples’ grills after having little to no sleep the night before. At least you’re doing it with your friends, right?
And that’s pretty much what you get when you join an organization like the Asian American Student Union. It’s not a huge organization, so everybody gets to know everybody else. It’s the perfect place to meet people that not only have stuff in common with you culturally, but interest-wise. Everyone who joins wants to know something more about Asian cultures, and there’s no better way to learn than to do it together.

So that can make even a car wash after 4 hours of sleep fun . . . . .