Coffee Hour
Friday, October 7th 2005

It was a lot of fun doing the coffee hour! We did a presentation on Vietnamese culture and traditions. We talked about the baby shower (Vietnamese does it a month after the birth the baby instead of a month before…), Tet (Vietnamese New Year), the marriage ceremony, and the rituals for honoring the dead. In order to make it more interesting, each of us contributed something special to the presentation. Twee contributed some of her valuable baby pictures (yes….that was her in the pictures at the beginning of the slideshow, wasn't she cute? Hehe…). Remember the wedding ceremony DVDs? It's actually the wedding of Cassie's and Brandon's cousin! We also performed two skits, and I was acting in both of them! I have to say that Connie was a good narrator; she knew when to stop for us to have enough time to act. I know I wasn't a good actress, but it seemed like most of you were laughing at the skits! No matter whether you're laughing at how bad my acting was or you truly thought that the skits were interesting; it was my pleasure to provide you with some entertainment! Mike and Brandon also performed in the skits, and I think they were hilarious..hahaha… Everyone did a good job during the presentation, and the Coffee Hour was ended with some mingling and chit-chat.

It was really great to see you there, and I hope you've learnt a little more about Vietnamese traditions!

Ice Cream Social
Friday, September 24th, 2005

This was a very special occasion for us, since it's the FIRST ice cream social in VSA history and also our FIRST members-only event this semester! There were around 20 lovely members there, and they got to enjoy some super delicious ice cream! We've got all the flavors: Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia, Haggen Daz's Banana Foster, Godiva's Dark Chocolate… The combination of ice cream with chit-chatting was a really enjoyable experience. When you see all the smiley faces on the pictures I took, then you'll know what I mean. For those who missed the event, are you drooling yet? Don't worry, we're going to have a members-only casino night on October 21 st , and I'm sure it'll be a lot of fun as well!

PS: I'd also like to thank ACC for providing us the venue.

Fall 2005 Mass Meeting
Friday, September 16th, 2005

Welcome you all to the family of VSA!!! No matter you're a Vietnamese or not, VSA is the place for you! You get to mingle with awesome people (like me….haha…just joking) during VSA meetings, on top of that, you'll get to enjoy tasty FREE food! Most importantly, our new board members are all very devoted, and we're always trying our best to serve you! Okie…enough of promotion for VSA, let me tell you what has happened during our first Mass Meeting.

We were all pretty anxious about the attendance rate before the meeting, since our publicity didn't go as well as we planned (our chalking around the campus got washed off after the rain on the night we just chalked! What a waste! People didn't even get a chance to see it….) But thanks to YOU ALL! YES! YOU! Your presence at the meeting has made our day!

The meeting first started with an introduction of the new executive board of 2005 to 2006: Thuy, Jessica, Cassie, Connie, Mike, and last but not least the awesome historian Joycie. We presented our goals and missions, plans for upcoming events and membership benefits. Talking about membership benefits, you can't miss out our membership card. We've got 15 restaurants and grocery stores joining our incentive program this year that will offer great discounts to our members. It only costs $10 to get the membership card, and you'll get to enjoy all these benefits! After the presentation, we all got to enjoy some nice Chinese food and to mingle with others.

It was a very nice evening, and it's always great to see YOU enjoying your time spent in our meeting. I'm excited to see you all again!

Joycie ^______^