End of the Year Wrap-Up

Hello Readers,

Happy New Year! Hope you all enjoyed the holidays!

LiNK held several fundraisers towards the end of 2010. Here are some pictures:

KSA + LiNK selling concessions

Working hard, or hardly working? jkjk.

WHAT IS THIS?!

Gingerbread, of course!

LiNKers decorating and bonding :)

Our members are so artistic!

Ta-da! So beautiful and yummy!

Yvonne packaging the cookies.

Bake sale! As you can see, we sold out pretty quickly :)

Overall, LiNK was extremely successful this Fall semester, and it's all thanks to our supporters! Thank you, thank you, thank you! We are slowly, but surely, getting closer to raising the $2,500 necessary to rescue a North Korean refugee, and raising awareness about the North Korean human rights crisis here on campus.

Unfortunately, due to personal reasons, I will be leaving the LiNK e-board. But I have no doubt that LiNK will continue to make great progress with or without me. The Spring 2011 semester will definitely be packed with bigger and better activities - so please come out and support LiNK! I know I will :)

“Many small people who in many small places do many small things can change the world.”
-- written on the Berlin Wall

It's been an awesome semester!

- Lois

2nd GBM

Hello Readers,

Our 2nd GBM was yesterday, Wednesday, November 17th.

We watched a BBC documentary entitled "Out of the North", had a short discussion, and talked about our upcoming GBM and upcoming fundraisers.

"Out of the North" follows two groups of North Korean refugees in China on their journey to freedom.

In case you missed it, you can watch "Out of the North" below:

For fundraising, we will be selling concessions on Saturday, November 27th, and having a bake sale with KSA on Thursday, December 2nd.

LiNK will be baking gingerbread cookies on Tuesday, November 30th, decorating them at our 3rd (and last!) GBM (time and place TBD) on Wednesday, December 1st, and selling them on Thursday, December 2nd.
Come out and meet the e-board and fellow LiNKers!

We will include more detailed information regarding bake sale shifts, etc. in future emails, so if you would like to be put on our list-serv, please email us at umcp.link @ gmail.com, or leave us a comment below.

Have an awesome Thanksgiving!

- Lois

7th Post!

Hello Readers,

There have been many LiNK happenings the past two weeks.

FIRST,
Congratulations to the new UMCP LiNK executive board members!
President: Lois Y.
Co-Vice President: Angela W.
Co-Vice President & Treasurer: Sophia W.
Secretary: Hoyoung K.
Historian: Yvonne C.
Event Coordinator: Matthew P.
Public Relations Chair: Andy L.

SECOND,
Check out LiNK UMCP Chapter on LiNK Global's official chapter website.

THIRD,
Our chapter was featured in an article in The PublicAsian's November 2010 issue!

Click on the photo to read!

FOURTH,
UMCP LiNK participated in the Asian American Student Union's Oodles of Noodles & Doodles event yesterday, Wednesday, November 3rd. The event consisted of people making cards for children staying at the Children's Inn of NIH and trying various noodles dishes made by many APA organizations on campus.

For this event, Hoyoung, Sophia, and Yvonne made a yummy tray of pasta salad!

Sophia cooking pasta

Yvonne dicing vegetables

Before...

Hoyoung mixing the pasta

...After! Mmm yummy!

Angela serving

Two LiNKers filling up on oodles of noodles

Andy with SO much food

Lois' card for the Children's Inn

Sophia's card for the Children's Inn

Yvonne playing Pin the Tail on the Pikachu (psst..she missed)

All gone! :)

FIFTH,
LiNK's next GBM will be Wednesday, November 17th, 6:30PM in Armory 0101. We will be watching a very short documentary (25 minutes), have a short discussion, and introduce an upcoming fundraiser for December.

- Lois

(All photos taken byYvonne Chan)

"Hiding" Screening & Other News

Hello everyone,

LiNK's "Hiding" screening went great last Thursday. Thank you all for coming! For those who couldn't make it, don't worry, we will have more events soon.

Students of Peace, a new student organization on campus, co-hosted the screening with us. You have our support and we would be more than happy to hold joint events with you in the future!

It was awesome meeting the LiNK Northeast Nomads and hearing their stories. We wish them the best on the rest of their tour.

LiNK Nomad Lindsay & CP LiNKer Matthew

LiNK Merchandise & Brochures

Thank you all for coming!

LiNK with the Nomads! (photo courtesy of C. Pyon)

- Lois

First GBM!

Hello Readers,

We had our first GBM tonight.

It was nice meeting everybody who came out! Hopefully our icebreaker will help you remember people's names for the next meeting haha.

For those who couldn't make it, we hope to meet you soon!

Our first big event will be a screening of LiNK's new documentary, "Hiding", on Thursday, October 14th in the Prince George's Room in Stamp Student Union. 

Facebook Event - Please RSVP! 

Doors open at 6:30PM, screening starts at 7:00PM! Come watch the screening and meet the LiNK nomads after!

You can watch a lot more informative videos on LiNK's official YouTube page: www.youtube.com/linkglobal

We will be sending out another email soon (with the E-board application), so watch out for it!

- Lois

First Look Fair

UMCP LiNK participated in the First Look Fair the past two days.

LiNK with KSA, our sister group!

Testudo stopped by for a picture!

We met a lot of new people and hope to see everyone who signed up at our FIRST GBM at 8:00PM on Thursday, September 30th in the Nanticoke Room in Stamp Union.

- Lois

Strong Winds, Tug of War, and Legend of Zelda!

Today, UMCP LiNK participated in the Asian American Student Union's (AASU) Freshman Welcome on La Plata Beach.

Some of our angelic LiNKers

Peace.

It's okay if you couldn't make it today. You can meet us next Wednesday and Thursday at the First Look Fair! See you then!

However, if you cannot make it to the First Look Fair and would like to join LiNK, please email umcp.link[at]gmail.com with your name and UMD (@umd.edu) email address - so we can register you on STARS.

- Lois