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What’s Up OC? Volume 6, Issue II Fall Quarter 2017 Multicultural Services Center Quarterly Newsletter Breast-Friends In celebration of Breast Cancer Awareness month, the Multicultural Services Center hosted Breast-Friends on Tuesday, October 10th as an interactive way to convey this awareness to students. We provided fun and engaging activities such as the mind-wrecking 19-seconds challenge and provided students the opportunity to share their stories and support. Not only were the students given treats and souvenirs, they also took home some valuable advice and tips from Cindy Abbay-Lugo, the breast cancer survivor we had invited to be interviewed. Many of the students (including the male students) were touched and passed on her advice and invited their peers to visit our table as well. By Sarah Samberi Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) “Festival of Love” The Multicultural Services Center took part in the Halloween Block Party sponsored by SGOC by celebrating Dia De Los Muertos, a Catholic holiday commonly celebrated by those of Spanish descent, on Wednesday October 25, 2017 in the BSC. The tradition of remembering loved ones who have passed away was honored by inviting students to write and post Letters to the Dead on a makeshift alter at our booth. As families usually leave Global Mixer The Multicultural Services Center, in collaboration with the International Education, hosted our first Global Mixer on Thursday, October 19th in the Multicultural Center. This event gave students an opportunity to be familiar with cultures around the world. The room was bombarded with fun energy: international music blasting from our stereo, students conversing in different languages, and colorful decorations to hype-up the room. Maya, Kaleb, and Sunny are our amazing culinary students who prepared the delicious sweet treats for the event. Lucky students also took home prizes from the raffle ticket draw and the prizes were not small! By Sarah Samberi Halloween Spook-tacular! The Halloween Spook-tacular was a fun and festive event held by the Multicultural Services Center on Halloween Tuesday October 31st! Students played a variety of games such as Pumpkin Put Put, Pumpkin Tic Tac Toe, Witches’ Hat Ring Toss, Poke a Pumpkin, Candy Corn Count, and an array of different puzzles. The lively DJ helped in keeping up the fun environment. We really appreciate the help that we received from our awesome volunteers. We could not have done it without you! By Cassandra Peeler traditional food on graveyards as offerings, we served sugar skull cookies, spiced hot chocolate and sweet bread as treats for students passing by. All the delicious sweet treats were pro- vided by our awesome culinary students: Sunny, Ian, Cooper and Darelle. By Elizabeth Guerrero Catching an American Indian Dream On Tuesday November 21st, the Multicultural Services Center hosted a native American event in the Multicultural Center. Starting with the PowerPoint presentation by employee and the three volunteers who are Native Americans, students learned some history about the culture itself. One of them even made fresh Native American fried bread for the students to sample from. Students also made their own beautiful dreamcatchers, taught by the volunteers and our own employees. All these could not have happened without the awesome Native American volunteers who helped us all throughout the event. By Xiaomei Wu

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What’s Up OC?

Volume 6, Issue II Fall Quarter 2017

Multicultural Services Center Quarterly Newsletter

Breast-Friends

In celebration of Breast Cancer Awareness

month, the Multicultural Services Center

hosted Breast-Friends on Tuesday,

October 10th as an interactive way to

convey this awareness to students. We

provided fun and engaging activities such

as the mind-wrecking 19-seconds

challenge and provided students the opportunity to share their

stories and support. Not only were the students given treats and

souvenirs, they also took home some valuable advice and tips

from Cindy Abbay-Lugo, the breast cancer survivor we had

invited to be interviewed. Many of the students (including the

male students) were touched and passed on her advice and

invited their peers to visit our table as well.

By Sarah Samberi

Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead)

“Festival of Love”

The Multicultural

Services Center took

part in the Halloween

Block Party

sponsored by SGOC

by celebrating Dia De

Los Muertos, a

Catholic holiday commonly celebrated by those of Spanish

descent, on Wednesday October 25, 2017 in the BSC. The

tradition of remembering loved ones who have passed away was

honored by inviting students to write and post Letters to the

Dead on a makeshift alter at our booth. As families usually leave

Global Mixer The Multicultural

Services Center, in

collaboration with

the International

Education, hosted

our first Global

Mixer on Thursday,

October 19th in the

Multicultural Center.

This event gave

students an opportunity to be familiar with

cultures around the world. The room was bombarded with fun

energy: international music blasting from our stereo, students

conversing in different languages, and colorful decorations to

hype-up the room. Maya, Kaleb, and Sunny are our amazing

culinary students who prepared the delicious sweet treats for the

event. Lucky students also took home prizes from the raffle

ticket draw and the prizes were not small!

By Sarah Samberi

Halloween Spook-tacular! The Halloween

Spook-tacular was a

fun and festive

event held by the

Multicultural

Services Center on

Halloween Tuesday

October 31st!

Students played a

variety of games

such as Pumpkin

Put Put, Pumpkin

Tic Tac Toe,

Witches’ Hat Ring Toss, Poke a Pumpkin, Candy Corn Count,

and an array of different puzzles. The lively DJ helped in keeping

up the fun environment. We really appreciate the help that we

received from our awesome volunteers. We could not have

done it without you!

By Cassandra Peeler

traditional food on graveyards as offerings, we served sugar

skull cookies, spiced hot chocolate and sweet bread as treats

for students passing by. All the delicious sweet treats were pro-

vided by our awesome culinary students: Sunny, Ian, Cooper

and Darelle.

By Elizabeth Guerrero

Catching an American Indian Dream On Tuesday

November 21st, the

Multicultural

Services Center

hosted a native

American event in

the Multicultural

Center. Starting with the PowerPoint presentation by

employee and the three volunteers who are Native Americans,

students learned some history about the culture itself. One of

them even made fresh Native American fried bread for the

students to sample from. Students also made their own

beautiful dreamcatchers, taught by the volunteers and our own

employees. All these could not have happened without the

awesome Native American volunteers who helped us all

throughout the event.

By Xiaomei Wu

Fall Quarter Events

Multicultural Services Center Bremer Student Center, Room BSC 117

Phone: 360-475-7680 • E-mail: [email protected]

For detailed information or to become a student leader and help

out for any of our events, please visit us in the Multicultural Services

Center in BSC 117. You may also contact us at 475-7680 or visit our

website at www.olympic.edu/multiculturalservices. SEPTEMBER - Hispanic Heritage Month September 20 - New Student Open House. 11am-3:30pm, BSC. OCTOBER - Italian American Heritage & Breast Cancer Awareness Month October 10 - Breast Friends! 9am -11am, BSC Atrium October 11 - A Taste of Italy. 11:30am-12:30pm, BSC 117 (MSC) October 19 - Global Mixer. 1pm-2:30pm, BSC 117 (MSC) October 23-27 - Disability Awareness Display. BSC. October 24 - Diversity Discussion Series, Panel #1. 1pm-2:30pm, TBA Diversity Challenge

October 25 - Welcome Back BBQ. 11am-1pm, BSC Atrium October 31 - Halloween Spook-tacular 9am-1pm, BSC Atrium NOVEMBER- Native American Heritage Month November 6 -Veterans Display. 12pm-1:30pm, BSC Atrium November 8 - “Magic the Gathering” Tournament. 11am-12pm, BSC Upper Lounge November 10 - Veterans Day Holiday November 13 through 17 - International Education Week November 15 - Non-Student Day. November 17 - Global Night. 6pm-8pm, BSC November 14 - Discussion Series, Panel #2. 1pm-2:30pm, TBA Diversity Challenge Canceled November 21 - Native American Heritage Celebration. 2pm-3:30pm, BSC 117 (MSC) November 23-24 - Thanksgiving Holiday. November 28 - Open Mic. 11am-1pm, BSC Upper Lounge DECEMBER December 1– Student Leaders Celebration Day. 12:30pm-2pm, BSC 117 (MSC) December 5 - A Season of Festivities. 11:30am–1pm, BSC 117 (MSC) December 7 - Hot CC @ OC! 9am-1pm, BSC December 8 - Staff Holiday Celebration, 11:30am-1pm, BSC 117 (MSC). December 11 through 14 - Finals Week! For up-to-date information on events and activities, visit the Olympic

Multicultural Services Center

Leadership Program

The new Multicultural Services Center Leadership

Program is here for the 2017-2018

school year! If you’re ready to take on

new and exciting challenges, increase

your campus knowledge, and build

your leadership skills all while

engaging your student body, then

come visit us in the Multicultural

Center located in BSC 117 and get

SIGNED UP!

Thank you to our awesome student leaders who took

their time to help us out with so many activities—from the

preparation, advertisement, set-up until the event itself!

Without you, our events would not be as successful as

they were

Student Leaders

Global Night

This year’s annual Global Night that was held at the BSC

Friday, November 17 from 6pm-8pm. Sponsored by the

Office of International Education and co-sponsored by the

Multicultural Services Center

Filled with diverse cultural performances from singing,

dancing, traditional martial arts and traditional musical

instruments, the multicultural fashion show also captivated

the audience’s attention well throughout the night. The

scrumptious food served during intermission were

prepared by our amazing culinary students! Thank you to

all student leaders and staff who lent their hands in making

this event happen By Afiqah Abdullah Zawawi

Highlight

Multicultural Services Center Quarterly Newsletter

WANDA YOUNG I started college a little bit over a year ago.

College has been a supportive

environment for me, positive teachers and

staff that help me when I’m scared. I don’t

want school to ever end as everyone’s so

nice here. School has helped me with my

anxiety and my depression and it’s helped

me built my confidence and self-esteem.

The Steps2Success program was my initial

start here in college and Mr. Cameron is a

wonderful teacher—he’s firm, he’s fair,

he’s fun. When I started college, I started

to take the medical receptionist program

because that was my program. I took a

Saturday class in the Intro to

Manufacturing—I liked it so much that I changed my program. I am now

working to get certificate in Composites and if I can keep the funding

I’d like to try to get Associates in Applied Science.

What really helped me is the people I see in Composites

program that has become a family to me. It hurts that I don’t have a

family; I felt like I failed as a woman for not being able to have a child. I

was never encouraged to do boy-type, machine or mechanics stuff or

even to go to college. Men were supposed to do what men do: go to

work and women was expected to stay at home, take care of children

or become a teacher or a nurse. I like coming to school because there

are so many positive people and they don’t make me feel bad for being

a woman wanting to be in Composites or just whatever program I

want to be in, whether the traditional manner or just about anything.

Having a little family in Composites help keeps me going. I know that I

got Jodie and Jayne (in the SGOC) who always have my back and I’m taking the time to meet as many people as I can.

I feel safe here. Something bad happened to me that I don’t

feel safe but school makes me feel safe. No one’s going to hurt me: no

words, no fists, no anything that might make me feel unsafe. The

teachers and staff here nurture your growth and if we get enough

positive pieces of everybody we can make a rainbow on a rainy day.

Nobody judges you for your choice. The only person that doesn’t

believe in me is me so it’s really nice to be a part of this center where I

know I can get some positive support. I encourage people to come

here a lot, it’s a nice place to just get coffee, sit here and engage with

everyone else. I don’t know much about culture so it helps to engage

my brain with stuff that I’m not familiar with, and that’s what school has

helped a lot. It’s been 35 years since I’ve been to school, and I was

afraid that I would stand out because of my age but I’ve never had that

issue here.

A guy I met at Lowe’s, gave me some pointers on school and

that was really nice so I count on the people in my community beside

school to help me get through everyday life. As you get older, it’s

harder to start a new career or start school but this is going to help

me get a better future so I won’t have to struggle so much with finance

and be able to be happy. I had two job lay-offs, a bad relationship and

an identity theft then I fell into an awful depression hole—when I didn’t

even want to get out of bed.

One of my friends suggested that I go to school which lead

me to the wonderful people I met here. Steps2Success does a great

job in integrating school and community—Mr. Cameron though, he’s a

wonderful teacher; Jodie, I’ve listened to her talking to other staff and

what she has to say has made a change and Jayne, when I first started

she took her own time to take over the class covering for Mr.

Cameron when he was away and I know that she’ll always have my

back. The food bank at the SGOC is also very helpful. I’m not

struggling like the other students to have their home and all the

transportation so I count my blessings every day. The storms arrived

but you guys are my rainbow who help me get through every day.

Whenever I got caught behind because of personal issues, I kept telling

myself I want a better life! It’s so easy to get distracted and not want

to better yourself. Steps2Success helped me understand myself and my

learning experiences and to take my own sweet time in learning—I

want to thank Mr. Cameron for this. Christine from BFET also is

always here to listen. This college is just a wonderful place. Always ask

around and communicate to get help.

JAY-AR ARSENIO

I was born and raised here in Bremerton,

so I’ve been here my whole life. I’m here at OC

to get my Associate’s in Arts so I can pursue

my degree in Computer Programming. The

school I’m looking forward to is Washington

State University.

At first, I was kind of intimidated because

high school students going to college—it’s a

pretty different experience and huge change.

OC is a great community college. The people and the professors

here are very helpful and nice, especially Aunty Jodie here at the

Multicultural Center. This is where I spend most of my time and

she’s a big help with a lot of resources and information. It’s

definitely been great and I haven’t had a bad professor once. OC

just feels like home.

It’s definitely changed from when I first started, but the MCS has

been a big part of my campus life here. I’ve done a lot of hanging

out here, bonding with other students and meeting new people.

Also, the community service opportunities that we got from

Aunty Jodie and helping out with the events and knowing about

what goes on around here. There’s a lot of information going

around so you learn a lot when you stay here. The MCR just

feels like home—a place that I can come to and enjoy being with

everyone and do homework when I need to so I think this is a

great place.

Hopefully my future is going to WSU and finishing my degree

there and finding a career that involves computer programming.

This place definitely helped me grow as an individual, as a

student. I honestly cannot wait for the future as I am now more

ready than ever and I’m sure that the future ahead is very bright

for me.

Graduating Students

Multicultural Services Center Bremer Student Center, Room BSC 117

Phone: 360-475-7680 • E-mail: [email protected]

RYAN PASCUAL

I was born in Bremerton, WA and has

practically lived here my whole life. I’m very

interested in music and playing instruments as well

as going to the gym. I am even entering a

powerlifting competition with my friend for fun; it’s

a very great and welcoming community. I am

majoring in Chemistry/Biochemistry and minoring in

Forensic Science.

I have been here for almost 3 years now; the first was to complete

my prerequisites and last year I’ve started taking all the required

Science, Social Science and Humanities classes. The campus

experience I’ve gained here has been pretty good—the teachers

are really serious about getting you to succeed and the staff are all

very helpful. Community college saves money and also provides

you with an amazing learning experience.

I was first brought here to the MSC by my old friend, Randall

during my first year here. I met up with Aunt Jodie and let’s just

say I’ve been here almost every day I’m at college. The MSC is a

really cool place for me to just relax; I can study while listening to

music and whenever I feel bored I can just take a break to go talk

and socialize with other people.

I am planning to apply just every university out there, particularly

University of Washington. I plan to stay close to my parents.

JEFFREY ZENG

I am from Seattle, and I moved here earlier. When

I moved here I was anti-social and so it was difficult for

me to trust people. When I came here and I found all

my lifetime friends, I believe, I can gain trust again. I am

completing my AA right now but trying to transfer to

WSU for Educational degree.

I think coming here is better in motivating me to

do better because you don’t want to be telling your

friends that you failed classes because you’re lazy or didn’t do your

homework. We have resources we can use and a lot of support

too.

I started coming here 2 years ago. The first year I was here I was

in daily and now I still try to be here always. Aunty Jodie has

always been nagging us to do our best here and it’s just nice having

her around. This place feels so homey. I definitely trust a lot more

people now.

I am going to transfer to WSU and will try to get into teaching

Special Education.

New Students

JENNIFER PRICE

I’m from Bremerton and am currently taking

prerequisites to go into Nursing and plans to

transfer to a 4-year university in the Physician

Assistant program.

I have a friend group and we always have

study dates on campus and I’m interested in joining

clubs here in the future. I currently work at the

bakery in Safeway and I just applied to help out the Bremerton

Food Line in between classes with my friend.

I think it’s really fun and I really like it here. I meet a lot of new

people and they have a lot of games that we can play so I can just

hang out here when I don’t have work to do but also a good

place to just study and have lunch at. It’s a good community; no

one is mean and it’s a good environment.

I won a raffle recently! I would love to join more of the events

by MCS in the future since they all look like a lot of fun,

HO-YEUNG CHU (SKYLAR)

I’m originally from Hong Kong. I am 17 years

old and just graduated from high school back

home. I’m here for my studies and currently I

want to finish my IE classes and maybe when I

promote learn some foreign languages, take

Hospitality course, and ask my advisor for help in

taking courses. I want to transfer to university

here because I think the environment is good for

studying and the people are nice.

I want to do something more like volunteering and some other

extra-curricular activities. I want to be able to show my children

in the future photos of what I did and what I participated in

college instead of not having any memories because I focus too

much on studying.

I remember Jodie came to orientation to introduce the MCS to us

new international students and her tone was just so exciting and

interesting which attracted me to come here. I think the MCS is

awesome and I love spending time here.

I will keep on volunteering as a student leader here and maybe in

the future I will look for a job here because I think I can find one

that suit me.

JOSIAH WESTBROOK

I came from Arizona last year but I’ve lived in

Washington before, right up north at Bellingham. I’m

on the basketball team and it’s been good. I’m

majoring in Communications and classes are fun

although the weather could be better. I plan on

staying just this year.

I want to get 4.0 so I can apply to schools, you

know, in case basketball doesn’t work out. I want to

get more involved with school activities so I can get good

recommendations.

The students are really nice, the staff always try to get the

students more involved. The games and the riddle that we have

are cool. They ask people to volunteer and help around so it’s

good.

THERON BRITT

I am on the basketball team and I plan to

graduate with a 4.0 GPA. I came from Hawaii and

have been in OC for almost 2 years now. I’m

currently completing my general AA and want to

major in Electrical Engineering.

OC has been fun, there are a lot of nice

people here and a lot of people that I like to make

friends so it was pretty cool for me. The teachers are fine and I

have enjoyed my two and a half years here.

The MSC is very chill, it has comfortable furniture and I think

that’s the best part. I come here almost every day. It’s a cool place

to hang out and meet different people.

I’m thinking of going back to Hawaii and transfer to a 4-year

university there and probably continue playing basketball there.