Last week, as part of the Asian American Heritage Week, Barkada hosted an event at afterHours called "Hoy! History. HERstory. OURstory." featuring Emily Lawsin. As a professor, lecturer, activist, and spoken word artist, Lawsin has used her poetry to spread awareness of her Filipino American background and other causes she believes in. Her performance was great and I'm sure many students who came to the event could relate to her poems about growing up as a minority. Besides Lawsin, it was also great to see students who came up to the mic before her and performed their own poetry/songs.

Barkada has also been participating in the ISSI's Carnavale events. A couple of weeks ago, we taught students how to dance the national dance of the Philippines, called tinikling, at the ISSI's Dance Around the World event at the Fenway Center. That was a lot of fun and I got to meet a few of the international students.

In other news, we're supposed to get another snow storm lasting for a couple days. Great. For most students, though, they'll miss it, since they're away for Spring Break.

More updates soon!

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Since my last post, there have been another couple of snow storms. Nothing too extreme, but the weather has slowed many people down, myself included. I haven't been able to roam around Boston as much. I've always enjoyed going around the city discovering new places to go eat and hang out at. Once spring rolls around in a couple of months, I'll definitely be going around more often.

Work has been going pretty well at my co-op. There's plenty of work to go around and I'm getting involved in a number of different projects. I've recently been assigned two more properties, so I've been staying busy. That's one of the best parts of the co-op program. NU organizes many co-ops with companies that get students involved in the work group. Obviously, some administrative work comes around every now and then, but for the most part, I feel connected and a part of the team.

However, not all can be gravy. Our offices used to be located in the Back Bay area of Boston. This meant a 15-20 minute walk from campus, and a variety of lunch spots. Now, we're on the outskirts of downtown by the Children's Museum, so I have a 30 minute commute and there's basically only one place to get lunch at. Tough times.

Well that's it for now. More updates later on!

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Here are just a couple of pictures from the Dance-a-thon that was hosted by Barkada and Sigma Beta Rho a couple of weeks ago...

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