Last Thursday (September 7th, 2017), I attended the UCLA (United Chinese Language Association) general interest meeting. I was informed of this club during Convocation Day at Baruch. There was a club fair and a lot of clubs were trying to recruit people to join. There were tables set up for clubs and people going around with club flyers to pass out. As I was riding up the escalator, some UCLA club members snagged the opportunity to inform me about their club. They had handed me a colorful flyer and proceeded to talk about their club. I don’t quite remember what details they said, but I do remember that they mentioned how there was going to be free food at the first meeting.
At the meeting I attended on Thursday, the room was very crowded. Lots of people had showed up and there were not enough chairs for everybody. The meeting started out with information about the club and some of the events. Then, there were some icebreaker games. One game that we played was called Google Feud, which was based off of the rules of Family Feud. Another game that we played involved us guessing what the zoomed in picture was. A picture would be zoomed in and we would have to try to guess what the picture was of. These games were pretty fun and enjoyable! Afterwards, people lined up for the free Chinese food.
During the meeting, I signed up for the club by putting in my name and email address into an excel spreadsheet. The club sends out newsletters to the email we provided so by reading the newsletters, I can be informed of any future events and attend some of them. One event that is coming up is the Lantern Making Workshop. In this workshop, UCLA will demonstrate how to make our own paper lanterns, which seems pretty fun!