FINAL POST?!?!

NOO! ='[ tear. i'm going to miss seeing your beautiful faces every Friday!

okay, so i am super behind on these posts so i'm gonna try and remember everything that we did the last few weeks =D

The day we watched the video about the political killings in the Philippines was quite an emotional experience for me. That was the first time i had seen the video and while i was watching i had a sudden realization moment. In LFS we are always speaking of the injustices in the Philippines, and I never quite understood what that meant until we watched the video. The GIANT list of countless names of political killings was the big realization point for me. The video focused on just a few of those who were killed, but when they presented the list of others i was saddened by the fact that every single one of those names was a person with a face, just like the ones they had focused on. A person with a family, with friends, with people that relied on them. i think keeping this in mind is something that keeps me organizing. we are fighting for those people. I think this workshop was very well needed and so was the discussion afterward.

The gender and sexuality workshop was another great workshop as well. I liked that we had guest facilitators who were apart of resources out in the community. I wish we actually had some more time for questions and discussion but i know the topic in general is very broad. This wasn't the first workshop of its kind i have attended but it definitely gave be a refresher of what i learned and the stereotypes we put on men and womyn. I must admit i myself sometimes follow in along in the gender roles we are "assigned" to by society, and i think it made us all realize our everyday actions.

I unfortunately was unable to make it to Dolores Park to march with you all in the May 1st rally because i was meeting my mother at her work downtown, but i was there for the afterward gathering at civic center. I didn't catch much, and because it was raining i feel we did not experience the best of it, but from what i saw there were many people in attendance. Hopefully it doesn't rain next year!

OHHH. DIWANG PINAY!!! =D this was my first Diwang Pinay and my first time being apart of the planning for an event like this. i really hope that you guys enjoyed the show because it meant a lot to us. i have to say it was quite interesting and just a little bit hectic being the stage manager for the show but i hope i did a good job.. (minus the lighting mistakes) haha. The acts were all very great and i think my favorite will always be seeing the ladies of babae dance to single Ladies--- with of course the LFS representation TONI! haha. I had a lot of fun and i hope you guys did too. AND THE SHIRTS WERE CRACKIN RIGHT?! i was so proud to be apart of such a beautiful event.

for the next couple of Jufran meetings we discussed our final project. There was a lot of ideas brought to the table but i think the one we chose was a pretty good choice. I feel like if we had more time though we could have made our mixed tape a lot better, and maybe we could have had some more tracks on it. I do love our song! and i admit to having the chorus stuck in my head sometimes! haha. Its a really good song and it was fun to collaborate and sing with you folks! as for the other idea of the t-shirt and the lit mag, i say we do them anyway! haha.

this semester was really great. I AM SO GLAD TO HAVE MET EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU GUYS! i hope we see much more of each other next semester! we should have a JUFRAN reunion every semester yo! i can't believe this semester is over, everything has gone by so fast. hope you all have a great summer!(hella cliche i know...) =D so who's up for being JUFRAN coordinators next year!!?! hehe.

--smile!
<3 moo