Homeless Awareness Week

Thanks to the Augsburg student club, LINK, Homeless Awareness Week is being promoted here at Augsburg. Tonight LINK started the week off with a performance by ZAWAY (I may be getting the name wrong), a group of formerly homeless people who have been putting on productions around the Twin Cities area for four years. A representative from Minneapolis City Council was also here to speak about Henneppin's plan to dramatically decrease homelessness by a specific year (which I can't remember--but it's not too far off!) The City will be providing housing to the homeless without requiring them to first jump through unending holes. The city already has a lot of homes reserved for this mission.
Tonight helped to lessen and correct stereotypes while answering questions giving a great performance!
Thanks to LINK and a special congratulations to my buddy LeeAnne who puts more work into a lot of campus activities that more of us know!

Dream Act

Be there--tomorrow--Tuesday--at the Capitol to support undocumented immigrants' rights to education!!
A couple of my friends and I will be going at 6 am via bus and then the volunteering will begin at 7! Get ready for (hopefully) massive amounts of people and a lot of productive running around! It is things such as this that make me feel like I am getting more of my voice out there. SI SE PUEDE for immigrants' rights!!!

Susan Lori Park

I was introduced to an awe inspring playwright this evening. Susan Lori Park writes captivating plays as well as original music. The play I read "F@#$ing A" (pardon the french) is an amazing tragedy that has all the twist and turns of the classics. Parks writes the simplistic story setting "here and now" vividly displaying a world of prison monsters, totalitarian authority, and abortionist that is not too far different from the society we live in.

"Third"

This past Thursday night Sam took my friend, Kelly (who stayed with me for a couple nights when she was on break from St. Ben's), and I to the Guthrie. He graced us with the kindness of his free tickets and we ended up seeing a performance called "Third." "Third" was about a 50's-something female professor who taught at an East Coast Ivy League school. In the world of academia, this woman was a "rock star."
Upon starting a new year, the professor went through many inner-struggles... The play was written a bit after 9/11, so it really illustrated her frustrations with the state of the world, with her home life, and with a specific new male student of hers.
This male student was at the professor's ivy league school on a wrestling scholarship. Famous for being a defier of stereotypes and generalizing, the professor did exactly the reverse to "Third" (the nickname of the wrestler).
The plot really gets to the audience and reaches it in a very personal way... maybe because many can truly relate to the personable story.

Get to the Guthrie and see it!
--The main young man is a student from the U of M!

St. Ben's

Two friends from my hometown are staying here tonight. They got a taste of a little Flamenco dance when I took them to Zorongo with me, and then after that we went to Dinkytown to try out Mesa's pizza. I was lovin' the Mac & Cheese kind:)

I've noticed that now when friends come to visit, I enjoy paying when we go out to eat and do other things of that sort... It makes you feel good, ya know!
Thus, give your friends a treat sometimes!

Happy Birthday Erin Yess!!!

Feliz cumpleanos a mi amiga Erin!!
Ya tiene 19 anos:)

Tonight some friends and I from home went to visit Erin at the U (where she goes to school). We surprised her by showing up when she was playing "Mario Party" in the lounge... How great it was to see the reaction on her face! She almost cried because she was so happily surprised! It wasn't even anything for us to go over there to see her, and she appreciated it so much!

Although cliche, little things do go a long way at times~

The Cold War

Has anyone ever read the document NSC 68? Well, if you would like a good, repetitive view on the Cold War, then I would recommend it (author: May). For a couple of weeks now, my history class and I have been trudging through this book. Yes, it has been tedious, but just listening to Professor Kolnick in class makes it worth it. He finds the book extremely interesting and "a good read;" now, although some of us may not agree with him so much, as long as he is intrigued and spreads that vibe to us in class, we have a damn good time.

NSC 68--read it, breathe it, live it.