my friend and i revived the asian club at our school!!

[odomo]

pretty cool stuff because the last couple of years people have been apathetic and the president of last year's club didnt host any meetings...so this year we're called asian entrepreneurs...

we have 75+ signups and had the first meeting already. we're going to have a club sweatshirt and we have activities planned with the clubs from our neighboring schools! we're off to a good start.

what are your experiences with asian clubs at your schools?

[kimpossible]

hey that's cool. what all do you have planned? any alumni networking? help people find jobs.

[nonamerasian]

We didn't have an Asian club, but I was part of the beginnings of a multicultural club, that was extremely kick ass while I was a part of it, but was difficult to recruit East Asians to until it crashed.

By that time, the founders all had graduated or were about to graduate.

The club then changed hand to hand amongst faculty members who decided to control the club (it was never that way before), losing sight of the club’s initial purpose.

For a club with little to no funding, it was great while I was around, though. I'm kind of curious as to what it is today.

Good luck with the rest of the year with your club!

[sandra]

what are your experiences with asian clubs at your schools?

we had joint picnics with your school.

[odomo]

hey that's cool. what all do you have planned? any alumni networking? help people find jobs.

hehe its only for our high school...so i dont know if we can get people jobs, but we have a bbq planned with the other asian clubs from the other schools in our area. we're planning movie nights, mah-jong nights (just kidding i dont even know how to play), and some community service and fun random things.

[nonamerasian]

How are you guys planning to make money for those things?

For a fundraiser, my club would have people cook food and charge members of the community a dollar to sample each dish. Perhaps teach dancing during the event to draw people in.

A really popular event we did that incorporated the above was when we’d get people from the community to volunteer to teach something, whether is was Korean, Tae Kwon Do, dance. . .whatever. Sometimes we were able to beg teachers to bribe their students to teach a subject for extra credit, but most of the time, they weren’t really needed.

On a weekend, people from the community were invited to come take classes from the volunteers.

There were classes for tiny children and for all other members of the community. In less popular classes, all ages were taught in the same class.

The classes were about 45 min. long each, and there would only be about three sessions--an opportunity for an individual to take up to three subjects, or learn the same subject repeatedly, or take one class and go home. The classes were around two dollars or five dollars per class (I don’t remember which).

As a bonus, at the end of the day, people were brought together and given prizes (from community businesses), usually based on what they have learnt.

It cost practically nothing, but always brought money into the group.

It’s an idea.