Hou Liling, a third-year student from the Beijing institute of Science and Technology, didn"t even know there was a sport called hockey a few months ago. Yet for one week start-ing from August 8, she stood in the strongest sunshine of the year for eight hours in a row beside the hockey pitch at the 2007 International Hockey Tournament. As one of the nearly 700 volunteers at the tour nament Hou"s job was to provide guidance and to help the audience whenever it was needed. Despite the long working hours, the 19-year-old told the Xinhua News Agency she Felt her summer vaca-tion could not be more meaningful.