Inaugural Spring Semester Announcements

1. There'll be a general body meeting on Wednesday, February 13, at 8:00 p.m. at the Student Involvement Center. (It's the room of the F. Ross Jones Building of the Mattin Center with large glass windows and blue couches inside.) If you don't have anything else scheduled for that date and time, please attend this meeting! We'll discuss our plans for the semester - FSA won't go into hibernation during the spring semester for once!

2. On the night of Friday, February 22, we'll have an FSA ice skating outing. Please join us! More details will come later.

3. We tentatively have a documentary screening scheduled for the evening of Friday, March 7. Again, more details will come later.

4. Mark this on your calendars! On Sunday, April 20, we'll have Filipino Cultural Night at the Glass Pavilion. Filipino Cultural Night will be a main topic of the general body meeting.

A Post-Thanksgiving / Pre-Christmas Update

1. The potluck held on the evening of Sunday, November 18 at the Charles Commons kitchen went pretty well. In addition to discussing for what we are thankful and chowing away on the food we brought, we surprised Jerr with a birthday cake and some presents! Huzzah.

2. This year's D6 semiformal was on the evening of Saturday, December 8, and it was hosted by the Filipino students of University of Maryland - College Park. The Filipino students of Johns Hopkins University, however, were too busy writing papers and studying for exams to attend.

3. We had another potluck at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, December 14 at Jerr's apartment; in addition, we had a hilariously bizarre gift exchange.

4. As of Saturday, December 15, half of FSA is done with finals. The other half is still studying for finals and writing papers.

5. There'll be a semester-opening potluck sometime in late January or early February.

Culture Show 2007 Videos / Potluck Tomorrow

From Camera #1 (i.e., Clarisa's camera, handled by one of her friends), this is a video of most of our Culture Show 2007 performance. What's missing are (a) Amethyst's introduction to the entire number, (b) the entrance of the slow-traditional tinikling dancers, and (c) the right half of the stage during both slow-traditional (so Amethyst and Jorge are cut out) and fast-traditional tinikling (so Amethyst and Jason are cut out):

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From Camera #2 (i.e., Kate's camera, handled by the legendary Carlo), this is a video of our Culture Show 2007 performance that stops right after the entrance of the fast-traditional tinikling dancers:

Meanwhile, the fast-traditional tinikling and modern tinikling weren't recorded with Camera #2 because of technical problems. Le sigh.

Finally, from Camera #2, this is a video of our Culture Show 2007 performance that starts right after the exit of the modern tinikling dancers:

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As mandated by Jeremy, there'll be a post-Culture Show/pre-Thanksgiving potluck tomorrow (i.e. Sunday, November 18) at 7:00 p.m. at the Charles Commons Kitchen. We hope that by this point, you all have checked your e-mail inboxes and/or your Facebook messages with additional information regarding this event.

Huzzah!

After a Culture Show dress rehearsal that was held at Shriver Hall earlier this evening, it's not an exaggeration to say that FSA is poised to rock the house at the 20th Annual Culture Show, which will be held at Shriver Hall at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 10.

A Few Culture Show Updates

1. As previously mentioned, this year's Culture Show will be on the evening of Saturday, November 10. Please invite your friends to watch us perform!

2. There'll be two mandatory rehearsals at Shriver Hall for all groups performing in Culture Show, including FSA. The first one will be at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 31, and the second one will be at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 7.

3. Thanks to everyone who attended the FSA Culture Show dance practices on Sunday, October 14, and Sunday, October 21! The next dance practice for all FSA members performing in Culture Show will be at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 28 at the Great Hall, although Amethyst and Nian will be contacting some members individually to review segments of the dance before then.

Culture Show Version 2.0.0.7

This year, Culture Show will be on Saturday, November 10. Mark your calendars! As usual, FSA will perform a dance routine at Culture Show. With that said, the first practice will be Sunday, October 14, at the Charles Commons MPR at 12:30 p.m. Please stop by if you're interested in performing with FSA in Culture Show this year!

FSA Night Out

To keep cyberspace informed of FSA's antics, somewhere between 12 and 15 FSA members ate dinner at Nini's Asian Restaurant in Glen Burnie, Maryland, on Friday, September 28. (This is the "FSA night out" mentioned in Phil's meeting minutes in the previous posting on this website.) FYI, Nini's Restaurant is run by Filipinos and includes Filipino cuisine on its menu - with that information in mind, it's not surprising that eating dinner there was a pretty delicious experience.