Trial! (in Vancouver)

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Today, we surveyed people so that we could see how the questions that we made worked and how we can make it better for the real survey on December 9th!!! Check our some of the answers we got:

What makes you smile??

The smile on my kid's face, Seeing you makes me happy, Skiing and sushi, My fabulous family, My friends, someone who smiles, love, Seeing sunshine in Vancouver, Mexican food, Oscar Wilde, Chocolate


What do you want to say to the world?

 Stop fighting.  Hope.  Love is all there is.  Love is in everything. Love is infinite.  Simplicity is comfort.Community is essential. There is much more to see that eyes can see. Love everything.

What are you passionate about?

Philadelphia flyers. After Philadelphia scores a goal, I’m very happy. Almost as happy as the players on the ice because I have followed hockey since I was a little kid, Caring for every living entity and living beings. I love to dance, painting, and make the people happy. I love to see the people smile. BC LIONS, Travelling, Baseball, Fashion, Music

First we all were kind of nervous to go and talk to people, but actually it was really COOL and FUN!! It was really good experience for us to communicate with people. We talked to many people. They all were kind and nice. When people were telling their answers for those questions, they were smiling and it also made us smile. We felt very good after we finished this trial survey today.
Hope we can share this feeling with you, too!!

For all the other teams out there preparing for "A Global Community Get Together". we have some advice!
We think there should be minimum 5 people in each place. That way, each person and be responsible for one of these things:
1)  holding a sign with one of the questions you are asking (In Vancouver we are going to ask "What makes you smile?", "What are you passionate about?" and "What do you want to tell the world?") and another person holding a sign that says "JOIN THE GLOBAL CONVERSATION!"
2) handing out pieces of paper and pens to each person so that they can  write the answer
3) holding a box (wrapped in paper with a slit cut in the top and example answers written on the outside) which people put the answers in
4) handing pieces of paper which have the URL of this blog http://www.we-are-sunners.blogspot.com/ and our facebook page www.facebook.com/spreadthesunshine  so that people can see the answers from ALL OVER THE WORLD!

Smile :)

A big meeting day!!

For people in Vancouver,

Did you get this flyer from us at school today??

Tomorrow lunch time, we are going to have a meeting for people who are interested in our activity!!

Meet at 540 Seymore campus room# 209 on lunch time.

Bring your own lunch and friends!!

See you tomorrow :)

What makes your smile??!

Today, we talked about what we are really going to do on Dec.9th in our community.

Which place is good for survey?

What should we do on the day to make people smile?

What else can we do?? We don't want to only do survey. It's boring!!!

We had a brainstorm to know what make us smile, what make people smile!!

Family?

Friend?

Boyfriend?

Money?? lol

I said; "I can't help smiling when I see these Chinese laughing man statues!!"

Everyone in Vancouver should know these laughing Chinese men statues in English Bay.

I love these amassing laughter so much. I believe that nothing can make people smile better than them. 

And I also said; "I think people's smile make me smile. When I see someone laughing so hard, it makes me laugh, too even when I'm not feeling like laughing at all. "

Then Khu said: "Hey!!!! I have a good idea!!! We can ask for one best smile from people before/after our survey!!"

And we all were like "Wow!!", as if we had found a treasure trove of new idea!!!

And after that, lots of gooood and interesting ideas came out :)

So here is our ideas from yesterday's meeting.

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Meet at 1 oclock

Make groups of 3-4 and go to survey (to.. Art Gallery/UB sC/Metrotown/Vancouver Library/Canada Place etc. )

Have big board says "Give me your big smile!!" 

And do survey. It's not asking people to fill the survey sheet, but having conversation and we fill the survey sheet or we also can use recorders. (My teachers!! Can we borrow the recorders from school??)

After the survey, we say thank you and "take one smile to home!!"

And on this piece of to go smile paper, we can put the URL of our blog page so that people who answered the survey also can check the result later!!! 

We take lots of pictures, we take lots of videos, so that we can share them later!!

At 4 o'clock, everyone gets together again and talks about the survey!!

And then... Go for a dinerrrrr!!! (Or drink <3)

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What do you think about this idea??

We also talked about what we can do with the results which we would get from our survey and other communities.

But now, it's time for me to go to eat Japanese ramen, so i will write it later :p

See you sooooon!!

Yui

Global Community Get Together - What makes you smile?

Global Community Get Together - What makes you smile? from we are sunners on Vimeo.

If you are interested in creating a team in your city, contact Yui and Ayaka at sunproject.vancouver@gmail.com 

Can't wait to get connected with you!

Team Vancouver

Meet your Vancouver SUNners: JiEun, Khim, Joe (our newest member!), Khu, Ayaka, Lesley, Yui, Sarah and Katerina. Missing: Nicole

We took this photo after shooting a video to promote our "Global Community Get Together"  - We'll be sharing it here as soon as it's ready! Thanks everyone who helped out with the video and special thanks to Nikhil and Chris from the Social Media and Marketing Department for their expertise!

What's going on!

For those who live abroad and even for those who live in their home country, sometimes life can seem individualistic and disconnected.  Humans are social; we need interaction and we need connection.  Do you ever wonder, what’s going on in your community?  What do people care about?  What’s going on in the world?  What are people thinking about?  Are there any ideas that unite people across the world?  And how can I reach out and be a part of this discussion?  

Student’s Uniting Nations (SUN) encourages students, as well as other individuals, all over the world to connect at three different levels to answer these questions.  First, individuals can connect and collaborate with the people closest to them – perhaps through school, work, or common friends.  At this first level, the group would design questions for discussion and ways to approach their community.  Next, as a team, this group would head out into the community and reach out to others through asking questions and sparking discussion.  We want to know what’s important to people, what makes them smile, what they are passionate about.  Finally, the responses from communities across the globe would be posted by the groups to a shared blog so that the discussions could be shared and compared.  

What are you passionate about?  Get connected and share with others.  Unite with those around you, unite with other members of your community and unite with SUN!  Become part of something bigger! 

Logo Photo Shoot!!

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Hey world!!
This is Yui from Japan.


Today, we had the first event for SUN, "Logo Photo Shoot!!" at the Canada Place in Vancouver.
We had 30 people from 8 countries (it was supposed that more than 50 people came for our event today though.. ) and we enjoyed an international photo day together!!  

Originally, we were planning to hold this event in front of the Vancouver art gallery for making a cool Logo Photo for our facebook page. We wanted to spell out our initial "S-U-N" with lots of people from various countries on stairs of the art gallery. However, as you know, now there are lots of protesters camping there and we couldn't help but changed the location to the Canada Place. We found the super cool place for our  photo shoot outside the Canada Place.  Our logo photo was supposed to be like this ↑ (This SUN is made with only Ayaka and Katerina though lol). 

However.. yes.. here is RAINCOUVER, it was a really bad day with dark rain and strong wind!! Everyone except Katrina was like "Please!!!! no photo outside!!!!!" (but only Katerina was like; "hey, come on!! Be like  Canadian!!") So we decided not to do it outside, but inside the Canada Place. 

Because of this rain, nothing worked as we originally planned.  We had to change everything and I was almost freaking out (actually, I was almost crying, too lol). However, because everyone there was so helpful and flexible, we still could take lots of great photos together!!   


Let me say thank you for everyone who came to our event today . I have such awesome friends. Thank you for being flexible and helpful. You guys are wonderful!! 


The event today was not perfect at all. But, this is only our start. 
We will definitely will be better. Even though the weather here sucks, we will be the great SUN to make people smile and happy. 


Anyway guys, thank you sooooooooooooooo much. You guys are super awesome. I'm proud of being friends with you guys and I'm so glad that I could meet some new cool people today. 

Thank you, Arigato, Danke, Kamsahamnida, Khawp khun kha, Merci, Pöjöm, Shukran, Cám ơn for everyone!!!




Yui