Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Japan Club Minutes

Japan Club Minutes

1/27/09

Members: 13

Today -

-We had our elections! Congrats to Sid, our Media Consultant, and to Angela, our Program Coordinator!
-Our official room to use for meetings is 416, in the Student Center. Please go there for our meetings instead of the office.
-We've gotten 200 Dvd donations for our media library! If you can help us transfer them to DataDiscs, let us know. Also, if there's a certain anime/asian drama/movie/etc you feel we should have, e-mail us and demand it!

Next Week -

-Feb 1st, Sunday, we will be meeting in the office at 11 - 11:30 a.m., to go to Chinatown! It's the start of the Year of the Ox, the Chinese New Year. We will be going via carpool, and then train and/or bus.

Next Month -

-Feb 20, Friday, Red Hawk Night. Karoke and Taiyaki!
-Feb 28, Mistua Trip!

Monday, January 26, 2009

Spring Semester 09

Japan Club Meeting 01/20/09
Member count: ... at least 12....

Hey guys, welcome back to the spring semester of 2009. We did hold our first meeting this Tuesday, a lot of new stuff is coming out. This semester we have a few field trips in the works, such as going to see the cherry blossom festival and to a gallery dedicated to anime, manga, and video game art.

Next meeting is elections. Two of our eboard positions need to be filled; Media Consultant and Event Coordinator. Nominations can be made until next week. If you would like any information or wish to nominate anyone, please email us back. In order to vote at this meeting, you must be present and have been at at least two Japan Club meetings from last semester. So far Angela has been nominated for Event Coordinator and Sid has been nominated for Media Consultant.


Future Events
Anime Nights - every Wednesday at 8:00pm at the (old) commuter lounge. This Wednesday we watched Samurai Champloon, we'll let you know what we're watching next week.

Chinatown Field Trip - Feb. 1st, we will be going to watch the Chinese New Year Parade in Chinatown. The parade starts at 1:00pm, so we'll be leaving well before that. If your interested, please email us and rsvp as soon as possible.

Mitsuwa Trip - Our semesterly trip to Mitsuwa, a japanese food market and plaza, should take place sometime n Feb. If you would like to go, let us know so we can arrange carpooling.

Samurai Vs. Ninja Panel Discussion (and more...) - March 3rd, UN 1030 at 8:15pm, Join us while we explore these two mysterious figures and seperate myth from fact. (We'll also be agruing which one is better)

We've created a Facebook group for ChibiCon2009. We'll keep everyone updated via group, so don't forget to join it. (and invite others)

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=feed&id=26110816#/group.php?gid=50485231081&ref=mf

I hope you guys have a great weekend, laters.

- Raquel
Vice President
Japan Club