APALSA Announcements through 2/5/07

CHINESE NEW YEAR!

Hey APALSA!
Come celebrate the Chinese New Year with APASLA at the China Pearl!
On February 9th at 7:00 PM, APALSA will be hosting a dinner in
Boston's own Chinatown to celebrate the coming of the Chinese New Year!
What is the Chinese New Year?
How did the tradition get started?
What are in those Red envelopes?
What do people eat for Chinese New Year?

Find out the answers to these questions and learn more about the Chinese New Year by coming to this dinner celebration!

Afterwards, enjoy ICE SKATING with APALSA members at the Frog Pond Skating Rink in Boston Commons! Experience the thrill of gliding on the ice and or falling on your rear!

Come to the dinner, or the ice skating or both! We only have a limited number of spots available for the dinner. So reserve your spot early!

APALSA is offering a special deal of $15 for dinner + skating for everyone who reserves a spot in advance. Otherwise, dinner will be $5 and skating will cost $12 ($4 for admission + $8 for skate rental).

Save two dollars by reserving your spot ($15) by talking to Nicole Love, Brian Youn, or David Kim to tell them that you will be celebrating the New Year with APALSA! We will also be in the cafeteria everyday next week from 11:45AM to 2PM to take reservations.

(reservation is on a first-come first-serve basis; no refunds for cancellations will be given unless authorized by the APALSA e-board).

China Pearl is located at 9 Tyler Street, Boston, MA and accessible by
T (Chinatown stop).

Please contact David Kim (kimhlm@bc.edu) if you have any questions.

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COMMUNITY SERVICE OPPORTUNITY

Hey Guys,
I know it took a long time but I have a community service project that is on going. The SteppingStone Foundation is la comprehensive program that combines preparing selected Boston children for the independent school exam (ISEE) through a 14 month program through two summers and 1 school year and continues to offer tutoring for students in Independent or Exam Schools. I was a Stepping Stone Scholar and the program is dear to my heart. There are two ways that we can volunteer our time.

1. SMASH Program--flexible tutoring program which would require us to show up 1 Saturday a month for the semester and tutor scholars in whichever subjects they need help in. Program runs from 10-12 on Saturdays

2. Academic Mentors--less flexible program which would pair each of us with an individual student and require us to commit to comming 2 Satudays a month. Program runs from 9:30-12:30 on Saturdays (last 1/2 hour is used for social activities such as gym use like basketball games, etc).

We also have the option of utilizing the last 1/2 of the tutoring time for a "conference" which would give us time to talk about law school at a planned event.

This program meets next Saturday, 2/10 and then is on break until 3/3. I have been approved to go and am planning on going if I can find atleast 1 other person to go. In order to be approved each interested person mus fill out their online application (takes less than 5 mins), and allow the coordinator, Jenny Foster, to give you a 20 min phone interview. This is all for the children's saftey, they will complete a Cori Check that turns over quickly. She gets right back to you, so if everyone interested in comming could try to fill out the application today and tommarow, we will all be able to volunteer next week. The website is: http://www.tsf.org/about.asp & the volunteer application is at: http://www.tsf.org/volunteer.asp.

It would really nice to have completed atleast 1 day when we go on our spring breaks.

Feel free to send me some questions,

Abra Mason