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Hello, everyone! Today, I’m going to be talking about an immune booth that I ran at the CMHI Health Expo in Mississauga. The program was held on June 1, 2024. There were a lot of kids who put up their booths with the intention of creating awareness about general health topics among the malayali public, who were in attendance at the expo. Once I walked in, I just carried my supplies over, and I set up my two booths. Wait, two booths?That’s right, I had two booths! One Immune booth, and on for my company, called Dexed. We sell decorations such as candles, and at the event, we were selling our scented soy wax candles to the people there. I managed to get a table to sell decorations because Dexed actually sponsored the event. Also, all the money I received from selling the candles went to the organization CMHI, so I got a nice spot for my stall, right by the entrance.

Anyway, I started setting up the booths by putting some sample candles on one table and on the other just putting up the immune posters that I printed out and the book that I was going to recommend to people. Then I sat down and waited for a person to come by. When the first person came over, I put it down and started explaining all the intricacies of knowledge with the help of my posters, and then I showed them the questions that they could ask me as examples, but I let them know that they weren’t limited to those questions. Most of the time, people would ask me about the connection between stress and immunity and how to boost their immune system.

I tried to explain all of these questions with my posters that have diagrams of most of the interactions between immune cells, and there were just some images of various cells. After questions, I showed them a book called Immune, by Philip Detmer which is just a really great book if you want to learn immunology. Back to my immune booth, which went on for the rest of the day, and a lot of people wanted to take pictures and record me talking, which was pretty cool, and they also asked me how I knew all this stuff. In fact, a college student even asked me where I was when he was struggling during immunology course. Immunology is a pretty difficult subject and should probably be taught earlier, and I just took the initiative of learning it on my own. Some kids also came to my booth, and most of them didn’t really seem to care, because they were their dragged there by their parents, but some people actually listened. I think that some kids would have been more interested if I made some 3d interactive models of cells. I was planning on making these, but we didn’t get to by the materials themselves, but the CFO of CMHI shot me down, just due to budgetary reasons.

I think the funniest thing that happened all day was that one of my friends came over and pretended like they wanted to hear about the immune system while I was presenting to someone else, even though she already knew a lot about the immune system, pretending to not know anything, and the other guy there like went along with it because I guess he just thought she actually wanted to know. I was trying not to laugh so when the other guy left and I just started laughing. After I calmed down, we had a nice conversation, and she left, but that was 100% the funniest thing that happened that day. The event actually ended up being a massive success, since there were about 300 people there, and my mom managed to get a catering company called Ruchi’s World to come with really great Indian food. Now back to my candle booth. I sold about $130 worth of candles and still had about seven leftover, which is pretty good considering I walked in with about 17.

This is the first time I was ever running a booth on my own, and it was pretty fun so I think I’m going to do it again sometime in the future. Before I conclude, I’d like to thank Robinson Nelson, the photographer who took those amazing pictures! You can find him on this website, right here. Anyway, bye everyone and see you later

*I’m just going to say something about boosting your immune system right now: don’t do it, just never do it, OK? Don’t participate in clinical trials that say they’re going to boost your immune system or anything, because last time they did that it worked but it backfired big time and all the test subjects had to be rushed to the hospital. Also, if somebody else on the Internet says they want to boost your immune system and you can buy the product, then that’s a scam. We don’t have the technology to boost it safely, and we can boost it but really dangerously, and it’s probably only ever going to happen in lab settings in our current state right now. So just don’t.