Hey guys, welcome to the USC Nikkei Association's spot on the blogsphere. Cause the website is a pain to update and stuff happens up to the minute, this is the place for all your up to the minute USC Nikkei news!
Let's get the ball rolling with a Fall 2007 wrap up...
-FALL 2007-
With a new board and a new goal for the year (in case you didn't know it, it's "To represent as many facets of the Japanese American community as we can"), USC Nikkei started off the year with an increased membership (almost double last years!) and an increased drive.
We had our first Iron Chef event with a huge turnout and lots of awesome food. The winning team? I honestly can't remember, but Craig's ramen salad without the ramen (we refer to it as JA salad) got first place as the single most liked dish, a well deserved win despite the fact that Howard and I made a hamburger with rice in it which was pretty much the bomb diggity.
Our Car Rally (alright, so this isn't really in chronological order) had a huge turnout with 11 (7? 5?) cars all over Los Angeles in a giant scavenger hunt! From Santa Monica to Little Tokyo, Nikkei members took photos and video in familiar territory like the Third Street Promenade and not so familiar territory like UCLA's Greek "row" (one team even managed to take a photo inside a frat house!), ending up with a giant convergence in Little Tokyo with much food and mirth.
With the greater Intercollegiate Nikkei Council (the association of collegiate Nikkei groups in Southern California) we had a get together in Irvine, getting the chance to meet folks from all over the place. We look forward to seeing more of the INC, already having a Little Tokyo scavenger hunt with them this semester.
In addition to these freaking sweet events, we had awesome general meetings where we made lanterns, t-shirts, and began to prep for our first annual CULTURE NIGHT!
This semester we're kicking it off with our first month celebrating Shin-Nisei (Japanese Americans born in the US post-WWII) by having more Japanese oriented events like our Soran Bushi dance workshop next week, our Japanese Valentines Day meeting in two weeks, and yet another traditional dance workshop in the last week to get everyone hyped up for culture show! 2008 is going to be a great year, so keep watching this space as more stuff comes up!
2K OUT!
- Sean
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