Multicultural Night and Raffle Ticket

Well, the first week of uni has started for second semester and UCUISS had been active taking part in the Multicultural Night on the 20^th of July and trying to sell Raffle tickets for the society which were drawn at the event. Quite a few people were hard at work trying to find sponsors for our tickets selling it, getting membership discounts, making our famous fruit punch for the food stall and other activities. The people who helped and took part in the activities were Veril, Ian and Vellene who tirelessly walked around Civic, Manuka and Belconnen  (and drove to and from) to get us the sponsors and membership discounts. Veril, Ian, Heracles and Intan helped in the production of the tickets. The same people helped with the creation of our famous fruit punch. Ayu, Aprin, Heracles, Dita, Thip, Veril, Ian, Intan and Wati helped sell the tickets. With Wati and Heracles being the highest single sellers of the tickets (not to mention sacrificing their own money for the good cause). And not to forget Mrs Ida who cooked those lovely foods and scrumptious Martabak, Satay and Spring Rolls for the event. All the dancers were great and patient enough to not only lend their time but to also come for ‘practice’ at UC for Murad, the International Students Officer at UC.  

Amanda with her friends from the Isti Indonesian Dance school (Diana, Mita, Dani, Intan and Iva) performed to the loud applause of the audience the Betawi Ngarojeng Dance from Jakarta. They were quite popular of course for their dance skills and not just because they were very pretty in their lovely costumes. Rini and Sylvia from the Embassy’s Department of Education and Culture also came to perform that night. Rini with her Fan Melayu dance and Sylvia (an ex Univeristy of Canberra student) was superb in her dramatic Cendrawasih Balinese dance. It was unfortunately a bit of a long wait for the dancers after they were told the wrong time to perform and get ready. The second semester Multicultural Night seemed to take longer than the first semester one with ‘more’ time seemed to be devoted to the South Asian cultural performances. It was also unfortunate that we were told to stop selling food at a particular part of the night when the Education minister and other important guests made speeches. Mrs Ida was not that happy with the arrangement, which seemed quite mismanaged, and at the end of the night we were only able to break even when it came to the amount of food we sold.

The Raffle tickets sold were more than half the number produced with over 300 tickets sold. The surprise of the night was the winner of the STA $100 voucher being Ian with his lucky number A008 coming up. I would like at this time to clarify that there was no ‘KKN’ (Corruption, Collusion or Nepotism) happening in the drawing of the tickets. The person who drew the ticket was Peter O’Hallaran, the Manager of the Administrative and Services sector of The University of Canberra Student Association, and he rechecked the winning tickets for authenticity. 

 Thank you again to those people who helped and volunteered their time and energy for this event and raffle. Hope you won’t be too discouraged to perhaps help again in similar events coming up.    

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