Students for Fair Consideration

So far our event planning is awesome! We have hooked up with SPEAK (Undocumented Students advocate group), Sigma Lambda Beta, and KASA (Korean American Student Association). We are getting a lot of support from our student government and hope to have a successful event! How are everyone else’s events/projects going??

Since the end of boot camp I  have been trying to brainstorm ideas for what I would like to put together for the program. I have never been the creative one in the family, so let me tell you: my little notepad stayed blank no matter how much I thought of things. I’d wake up… nothing. I’d eat breakfast… nothing. Made my bed… nothing. Ran errands…nothing! Meanwhile, Ms. Karen is already planning out the details of her event and, again, I have nothing.

I have been tutoring elementary kids at my local library for the past three weeks. I love it. If I could tell you about each of the kids you would probably understand why. I love the way you have to make everything a game so they will do it, their curiosity, the way they point out the obvious and notice absolutely everything, the way they try to trick you, the random funny things they say. But surprisingly, I have found it almost natural to work with them  because my mind, like theirs, engages when things are visual, simple, and entertaining.

A couple of nights ago, I opened my notepad again, stared at the blank page and wrote: PLAY. simple. visual. entertaining. A play about undocumented students…

so I finally came up with a good idea for an event this fall on the issue of immigration. well, at least i think it’s good:)  Next year i’ll be working as advocacy program coordinator for the multicultural center at Santa Clara, and my job is basically to organize events to raise awarness on various social issues. anyways, so the event i’m planning for the fall consists of creating sort of a museum where we’ll have various stations. Each station will tell an immigration story, and these stories will be from all around the world. aside from the stories, each station will have photographs and information on the immigration history of a particular country. The idea is to educate students about the immigration experience told from different perspectives. I’m working on the details, but I talked to my boss and he agreed with the idea. I’m excited I’ll be putting all the things I learned in bootcamp into practice.