P-Bear Meeting Thai Delegates
Tuesday 4 Dec 2007
by Woon SG-Thailand
Photograph by Abigail Jabines
P-Bear is so lovely when looking from outside but being inside it is another story…a very different one. This evening, I got to experience what it feels like to be a P-Bear. It was definitely fun at first because you would feel like jumping around in a softy suit like this. Also, it can create such a positive response from people. P-Bear’s friends can talk to people, distribute our flyers to them, and encourage them to do our quiz much easier when P-Bear was around.
Photograph by Abigail Jabines
After 30 minutes, it started to get hotter and hotter in here. I sweated like I was taking a shower in there; but the worst part was when the sweat ran into my eye. Breathing was also difficult. I sudden feel like I know how a real polar bear would feel as the world is warming up! And I was so glad to have "I'm a Kyoto Fan" fan in hand. Kyoto will save real polar bears as the Kyoto fan actually saved me today.
Yet, Ivy ran to tell me an exciting news which made me jump off my spot toward a group of people; she met the Thai delegates whom I was trying so hard to find. It was a challenge of the day to find our country’s delegates and talk to them. I finally found them but only when I was in P-Bear. I went forward anyway and one of them got scared. I did not give up and tried to talk from inside the P-Bear with quite a difficulty. At least, I started off something and that is to be continued….