Week 1: Speed-friending

Welcome back! We hope everyone had a pleasant winter break!

This week's meeting was today, Tuesday, instead of the usual Wednesday, so many of our regular members couldn't make it. But we did see a lot of new faces!

We started off by going around the room briefly introducing ourselves, and then we lined up desks and did speed-friending in roughly 5-minute intervals.

Our meetings for the rest of the quarter may or may not be moved to Wednesday nights. Please let us know the best days and times for you to come out via the Doodle link on Facebook.

Also, if anyone is interested in purchasing an LXP t-shirt, we still have a couple left! :]

Week 1: Breaking That Ice

It's been quite some time since this blog was last updated, but hopefully we'll revive it this year!

We had our first meeting of the quarter (and school year) tonight. It was exciting to see new and old faces! After some general information about the club, we went around the room and gave brief introductions. Then we formed a large circle, and each person told 2 truths and 1 lie about themselves. Even more people joined us in the middle, which was a pleasant surprise! 

Towards the end, everybody just mingled and talked among themselves while munching on delicious snacks. We've got such a lively group this year; you could hear the buzz of conversation from the hallway!

Well, we hope to see you again next week~

Drinking Games

Hey Everyone, I'm very sorry for the late post.  I hope everyone else is taking care of mid-terms and school work a lot better than I am right now.  Last week, we got together and played some drinking games but had V8 as our drink.  Yeaaaaaaah, a lot of people don't like the salty taste, so it was funny to watch you guys squint and stutter from drinking it!

Tonight, we're going to be celebrating Cinco de Mayo and learn about the culture behind it.  We will be eating Rubio's from what I hear.  So we'll have Tacos, Chips, Salsa, and soda to accompany our discussions and games for tonight.  Hope to see you all there!

-Trenton

Calligraphy Night!

Yay!  Chinese Calligraphy has always been an interest of mine, and I'm so glad Yang Laoshi was able to teach us.  Also, thank you for those of you who showed up.  The club generally had a great time and learned quite a bit from the Laoshi.

We were informed with the history of calligraphy, the equipment necessary for pro calligraphers, and the methods of correct strokes.  Calligraphy is supposedly good for your health in exercising patience, practice, focus, memory, discipline, and control of the entire body.  It goes beyond just writing letters and making art, it can be part of our life in its entirety.

Isn't Chinese Calligraphy such a beautiful practice?

Anyways, the up coming event should be Karaoke.  I'll send the invites and Sam will send the e-mails out when we find out.  For a bit of info, Karaoke is actually a word from Japan derived from the word Kara (empty, like in Karate= empty handed) and Oke (from the sounding of the word Orchestra).  So it essentially means "Empty Orchestra" where we sing the melody and lyrics to a certain song.  Hopefully we get to do karaoke, I love to sing (but I warn all of you, I'm a horrible singer)!

-Trenton