Roaming through the halls of the 9th floor, I heard screams and cheers through the door of the Vietnamese Student Association club. As I entered the door, I was approached with warm welcomes and friendly smiles from the executive board, many of whom I have met before through my sister who is currently VSA’s vice president. As I walked further into the room, I saw familiar faces from both my high school and students from my classes.

On this first General Interest Meeting, we were given a very brief presentation of who, what, where, and why VSA. We watched a video of the many past events and things that VSA did such as fan dancing lessons, sports day events, and many philanthropy events like earth matters. Joining this club was not because of my sister forcing me to but because of the supportive and awesome community that it came with VSA. It was a community that accepts and loves people from different backgrounds. It was a community that I can see myself calling family years down the road.

After the brief presentation of VSA, we separated into many different groups where we had engaged in awkward ice-breakers. One of the two ice breakers was to introduce ourselves with a certain action and we had to repeat everyone else’s action and name before we executed it. The other ice breaker was to follow certain rules such as “GET INTO GROUPS OF 4 AND EVERYONE SQUAT.” This game was to see which group could obey the rules the fastest; the incentive for winning was that the first group would get their food first. That day they were serving Vietnamese sandwiches of many different choices of flavours ranging from smokey barbeque pork to juicy tender chicken. Sadly, I did not have any of these sandwiches because I previously ate lunch.

I am circled in yellow.