The Duck Race
On the 31st of August my friend
at ICS, Basia Clauer held her brilliant event raising money for Krebslige
Zurich, the Duck Race. The Duck Race was created and organized by Basia
herself, the race revolves around selling rubber ducks and having participants
dress up and decorate their ducks.
After participants have a duck they put, the
ducks that is, into a giant pallet and finally a crane holds them over the Limmat
River in Zurich releasing them to flow down the river, carried by the current. The
event involves a lot of organization and so I wanted to help out Basia and her
excellent cause.
I was involved in administration of the ducks, which involved
a lot of running around chasing down ducks, taking peoples names and addresses
and selling ducks. I also advised participants on their duck dress up! It was a
long day in the very hot sun but it was a throughrally enojable experience. Many
language barriers faced me as tourists from around the world got involved, it was
also challenge to use my German. Often I was doing transactions in German,
while trying to take down names and addresses in English.
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