Volunteered At The Vancouver Fringe Festival

I have been quite busy lately, partly because of wasted time, but also because of my volunteering at the Fringe Festival. It was a good opportunity to see familiar faces again. I wore my hosiery and shorts every time I volunteered there, and I can assure you that people are very happy to see me still. In other words, they are not put off by my hosiery.

In the previous blog entry, I mentioned that somebody asked me about the hosiery advocacy on Sep. 10. I saw her again, and mentioned that I will be reviewing a couple pairs of hosiery from a friend who is starting a hosiery business. She was happy that I told her about it. My dear readers, you can bet your bottom dollar that there are people out there who cheer for us.

Volunteered At Greek Day 2011 [in Vancouver]

This is not the same event as Greek Summer Festival, but Greek Day was enjoyable, all the same. Read the remainder of my blog entry for more info about yesterday's volunteering.

Celtic Festival 2011

I volunteered for the event for 2 days: 1 day as a runner; 1 day as a parade attendant. Each time, I wore hosiery and shorts. Read the remainder of the blog entry to read about the discussions and the women who took photos of me.

Volunteering: Fringe Fest Volunteer Appreciation Party

The Fringe Festival really took good care of their volunteers. I appreciate the way that they offered refreshments, and offered a nice party at the end of it all. This implies, to me, that they are not recruiting volunteers just to save money. Read on, to find out how the night went.

Volunteering: Fringe Fest Performance

I went out to Granville Island. Read the remainder of the journal entry for the details. I will not use my preferred well structured format to share the details, since I am tired, and since I am running behind schedule.

Volunteering: Business Expo

I decided to wear pants.

During the day, I thought about what she would have permitted and not permitted. I wondered if she would have let me wear shorts during the day, but not in the evening, or if she would not have let me wear shorts at all during the day and evening. I want to follow up on it. I will send her an email, and I will get back to you. I think that it would be an interesting opportunity for us to be able to wear them to expos and conventions.

An unusual thing did happen during the morning. 1 girl helped me to find a volunteer shirt. She said that I should try the women's medium size, instead of the men's because the fit would be better, and also because the men's small were no longer available. I declined to wear it, because the difference would be obvious, and I did not want to take that chance. I wonder why she thought that I would be open to the idea of wearing a woman's shirt. I suspect that it had something to do with her seeing me during the previous night's orientation, when I wore hosiery and shorts. She was sitting just a seat or 2 away.

Volunteering: ESL Tutoring; SOHO SME Training; Fringe Performance

Read this blog entry for a general description of what happened, yesterday.

Read the upcoming blog entry on Sep. 20th, for a hosiery review of Hanes Alive.

Volunteering: Fringe Fest Performance

It went quite well. I finally got to wear a pair of mostly opaque hosiery [i.e. tights], that I had been waiting for some time to try, but I was a bit disappointed, because it was actually dark blue, not black. I thought that it was black. I'll have to check the packaging to see if the label was misprinted.

That being said, the experience was good overall. I noticed a lot of women wearing hosiery yesterday. I even got to volunteer along side of 1 of them.

I had to wear a yellow t-shirt. In the near future, I will try to post a photo.

In the near future, I would like to post a hosiery review of this new pair of hosiery. I highly recommend that you buy a pair.

Volunteering: Talked To ESL Student About Hosiery On Monday

Yesterday, I was speaking with a student to help her practice her conversation English. During that time, she mentioned shopping. So, I slowly turned the conversation towards men in hosiery. I was the first guy wearing it, that she ever saw. We never really talked about why I wanted to wear it. She seemed to explain that she did not really care about whether or not guys would wear it, even though she felt that guys should not wear it.

On Tuesday late afternoon, I will volunteer again at a performance, as a ticket seller. This time, I intend to try to wear beige shorts and white opaque hosiery. I will let you know what happens on Wednesday.

Check back on Friday, when I post a blog entry about my volunteer experience with a business expo. I intend wear a business appropriate outfit with hosiery.

Volunteering: Performance

I went out again on Sunday night, to volunteer with the Fringe. This time, I went without hosiery and without shorts.

I wish that I would have worn something nice, but 1 of the things that stopped me from doing it, was the rainy weather. I think that it would have made me look a bit weird to wear hosiery on a very rainy day.

It is so hard to measure reactions without a proper survey. Perhaps I should take a photo of myself, and then get some public feedback. With 1 group of random people, I could ask for feedback on a guy who is trying to prove a point despite the weather, and with another group of random people, I could ask for feedback on just a guy. In other words, I would try to measure their reactions to a person with a positive story, and their reactions to a person without a story.

Volunteering: Performance

Last Wednesday, I volunteered at a performance, as a greeter. I accepted the tickets, when the audience members went in.

It was interesting, because before the show, a fellow asked me if I was wearing stockings. I was wearing black day sheers. I told him that I was. Eventually, he asked me about it, and I explained that I was trying to raise awareness about straight guys, hosiery, prescription hosiery, etc. I doubt that he was convinced to wear them, but he never said anything negative or positive. It was hard to read him. I was too busy looking around. I wonder if he felt offended. In fact, he was looking around also. It was busy enough that we were probably both distracted.

1 interesting question that he asked was about whether or not there are any men's sizes. That surprised me, because I didn't expect it to occur to him.

We can consider 1 more guy to be informed.

Volunteer With The PNE Parade

As you may have gathered from previous blog entries, I volunteered at the PNE parade, yesterday.

It was a long day, but I've got some great stories about discussing the topic of hosiery with a former manager, about seeing former fellow soldiers, and about how it went.

Made Second Pair Of Shorts Less Baggy

I finally made the second pair of shorts less baggy for yesterday's volunteer work.

Read more for my thoughts on the appearance of them.

I Volunteer As An ESL Tutor

This will be a good opportunity for me to practice my teaching skills. Even if I cannot learn anything new, at least, I can prevent myself from getting rusty.

Read the remainder of this blog entry for the specifics on how it will benefit us.

Volunteering At Canada Day Parade

For those of you who know me, you know I like to volunteer, to meet people, and the get the message out. I volunteered at a Canada Day parade, I wore my red hosiery. Check out the photo, and the story on who our latest supporter is.

EPIC Photos

I finally got my photos downloaded from my camera! What a pain! Read the remainder of the blog entry to see the photos.

Victory At EPIC!

I learned about networking, which helped me feel a better connection with people.

I also got 2 or 3 photos, that I'd like to share with you. I found some young ladies who supported me.

Once I get all of the photos downloaded to my computer, I'll write more details.

Volunteering At EPIC

I am volunteering at EPIC, today, and will wear the following.

• black sheer hosiery
• with black shorts
• white turtle neck
• cream sweater
• volunteer t-shirt 

Today, I will volunteer, for the second day, at Epic Expo, and hope to get some photos of the girls staffing the The Underwear Affair booth, which is run by the BC Cancer Foundation.