"City volunteers also contribute to the Olympic Games. I just want to do something for the Games because I am the host," explained Shen Li, who worked as a city volunteer at Shi Jingshan Amusement Park for three days.

She is one of the 400,000 city volunteers the Organizing Committee for the Beijing Olympic Games (BCCOG) needs for non-Games services in areas outside the Games venues.

Shen, a sophomore at Beijing University of Technology said although her job was not directly for the Games and athletes, she still felt honored to wear an orange polo shirt with the Olympic volunteer logo and on the back in white letters it reads "Ask Me".

"When people see our shirts, some come to us if they need help," she explained, pointing to the volunteer logo on her chest.

She was with two other fellow volunteers and the three of them shared a service booth at the foot of the Ferris wheel at the amusement park. They started work at 9:30 am everyday by unfolding their huge dark blue umbrella and arranging their service booth - a job is not so easy for the three young women, but they manage to do it all by themselves.