october 16, 2008

the weekend got off to an early start this week with the university of michigan alumni association’s monthly happy hour held at thirsty bear.  just a brief story of how i came about going to this event… i started receiving emails about the association recently and decided to check out the board meeting on tuesday since it was being held a block down from my work.  the meeting was smaller than i expected, but it actually turned out to be an advantage because i got to know the individuals a bit better than i normally would have in a bigger group.  the meeting reminded me of korean student association meetings back in college (with the exception that the alumni meeting had free pizza and wine, which was awesome btw), and it made me want to get more involved with this group.  i along with another new comer volunteered to help out with the food bank volunteer event later in the year.  i thought the happy hour would be a great opportunity to meet more people and get to know the ones i’ve met better so that it won’t be so awkward at the next event.  i met a lot of new fellow alumni and had a great time talking to them.

switching gears, after happy hour i went to watch a documentry called ‘call + response’ with my small group.  the documentry (click on poster to view a video on cnn) was about human trafficing for slavery and sex, and it was actually fairly disturbing to learn about how human beings are still being used (i think the documentry said more than ever) for slavery all over the world.  it was especially disturbing to see kids being exploited and abused.  i’m sure i’ll learn more about in the coming weeks, and i look forward to finding out ways i can help.