Activities Fair!... also a few words.

To those of you who signed up,

Thanks a lot for joining us! We look forward to seeing all 32 of you at our first meeting on Friday September 10th. even though you all signed up for the japanese "cluture" club apparently...

As a side note: While wandering around the fair and collecting stickers I met up with Michael Shaw who was stationed at the Animation Club booth. I pitched the idea of possibly having joint events since our interests cross over. He said he was very much interested in the idea and is willing to work with us. Don't know about you, but I find that idea rather spiffy, no? You can thank Adrian Duran who suggested it at the officers meeting.

On another note, I would like to just say a few words to returning members who considered not joining us for a second year and to those who are new and may have heard or inevitably will hear some negative things about us:

The club is, in fact, under new management! Year one of the Japanese Culture Club was very rocky, but that is to be expected (no offense to the previous years officers, of course). No one is perfect and I doubt you can name me an organization that didn't have its rocky moments- especially in the beginning. Mistakes were made and yes, there was a fair share of drama amongst the officers and that bled into the overall well being of the group as a whole. I also recall some returning members who scoffed at the fact that we still call ourselves the Japanese Culture Club rather than "Anime Club" due to the fact that it was the only topic we touched on last year. Unfortunetely that's what happens when very few people are motivated to show up and there wasn't enough emphasis put to other topics. Honestly, their irritability on the subject is justified.

Our goal this year is to change that.

We will have more meetings with round table discussions with our members, we will host fun events and we will focus on the culture. Not just anime... However, we can not even hope to accomplish this without our members.

And with that, I say thank you to those 32 that signed up today at the activities fair. You're in for a fun semester.

See you all on the 10th.

Peace.
-Melissa