The club celebrated the year of the pig with a Lunar New Year Celebration collaboration with Vietnamese Student Association The members enjoyed a show performed by Kpop Club, we thank Robin Choi for working and collaborating with us. We also would like to thank two of the representatives of VSA for coming. (Nguyen Tran and Trang Nguyen) Thank you for the following students for bring food to share with the other members. -Sierra -Mitali -Stephy -Helen -Jocelyne -Nate -Kiana -Ms.Chang -Irene -Ashley -Raia Starting off the new year with the celebration of Russia on January 18, 2019. Many of the cabinet members created a presentation, if you missed the meeting you can check it out here Thank you to lshita, Jacob, Leslie, and Mitali for bring food to share to the club members. Our cabinet members made Russian Bread w/ butter and sugar. We celebrated Mexico on Friday November 2, 2018. Here is the link to the slides presentation about Mexico. Turn out was fantastic. Thank you to all who came. Especially a shout out to our cultural presenters and members who brought food. Presenters of the Traditional Baile Folklorico Skirt: Saray Diaz and Kassandra Barraza Food donations from: Saray Diaz Katerina Portela Jocelyne Poveda Leslie Magana Sierra Gallegos Nicole Alakkoud Tami Lee Nathan Holliday Thank you to Vy Nguyen who cooked the beans for us. Thank you to Mrs. K for allowing us to use her culinary kitchen to cook. On Friday September 28, 2018, the Cypress Culture Club celebrated the country of Australia.
Many students got together and created a presentation to showcase the culture of Australia. If you missed it, you can check it out here. Several students also brought in food to share with club members. Many thanks to Alysah, Stephy, Viktoria, and Zana. Our cabinet members made Fairy Bread and did a Vegemite Challenge. (Don't try it at home) Process making Fairy Bread: 1. Buy white bread 2. Add butter to the white bread 3. Sprinkle rainbow sprinkles on the white bread eOur final potluck of the year was contributed by MANY of our dedicated club members. Thank you to everyone who participated! We had lots of food from the countries/cultures of:
Just take a look at the pictures below! It was a great celebration! Also thank you to all who participated in our raffle, we truly appreciate your support! Congrats to Arren and Dustin for winning the raffle! Thank you to Nick and Sanjay for setting up our Celebrating India theme today - Friday 3/23.2018. They brought plain naan bread, vegetable curry, samosas, and cake to celebrate the country of India today! Congratulations to Rianna Gonzalez for being chosen as our President for next year. Congratulations to Mitali Jain for being chosen as our Vice President for next year. Here's the Google Slides that was showcased at the meeting. President Nick brought delicious goodies to celebrate Cuba! Some of those goodies can be purchased at Portas! Pictures presenting Cuba were also showcased along with a video called Guantanamera by Celia Cruz. You can see the presentation here. President Nick and President Sanjay both dressed up in traditional Cuban outfits as well, hat and all. Some of the pictures from Meisei High were posted on our club Instagram Account @cypress.cultureclub But here's a few more just in case you missed them. Some of the pictures are of Meisei High students working on Graphic Design work in Mrs. Chang's classroom. They picked up designing so quickly!! Many thanks to Cypress ASB, Culinary, Advanced Art, Ms. Shimagawa, and Dr. Wales for their help to making the event a success. Thank you to all those who attended our "Celebrating Italy" event. We served spaghetti noodles with tomato and mushroom sauce to all our members. Our presidents Sanjay and Nicholas talked about Italy. Here's a recap of what they presented:
Then we showed a video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r4a0YLw5_w |