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??

This past Saturday, Rodrigo, Linda, my father and I led workshops for undocumented students and their families in Oakland — along with Kathy’s support! These were workshops in which we shared our experiences as undocumented students (and the parent of an undocumented student) to inform the audience and motivate people who are in the same situation as us to keep going in their studies.

On my way to Oakland, I was thinking about how I wanted to motivate everyone in the audience. I wanted everyone to take something from it. I kept thinking of ways I could get the whole audience hooked. But once we began the first workshop (we did four of them), I began to have a whole different goal. I wanted to say what I really felt and just tell them what I’ve done. I realized that all I needed to do was to  change one person’s perspective on undocumented students or on his or her own life. This was the first time I felt this way, and it definitely caused me to be more open with the audience, especially after the first or second workshop. It allowed me to be more comfortable with myself as well as the audience.

I definitely learned something this weekend. I’ve done many speeches and presentations before, but my goal of trying to motivate everyone has always gotten me very frustrated. I’ve always wanted to get everyone in it or no one at all. But in reality, that’s not going to happen. I realize that as long as I change at least one person’s point of view on others or themselves, that’s really all that matters.

I was glad to do this workshop with our fellow S4FC members. It was definitely a fun and learning experience… and there needs to be more!

Have a great week everyone!