Hello Concord Family!
How was everyone’s new year? Happy 2020! It has been a long and tiring year in 2019. With a new year I am striving to do well and better!
Spring semester has been going well! I am currently taking a lot of English courses and one online course, which is my first online class I ever took this year. Although it’s a lot of English courses, I enjoy learning and writing. One English course I really like the most is creative writing. In this class we write poems and do exercises in free writing to help our brain get going into writing without stopping. I like how in this class we are able to be creative in our own ways where there’s no right or wrong. Recently in my Online Anthropology course, we were given an assignment where we have to think and use our observation skills like anthropologists. At first, it was strange and weird that I had to go spectate and take notes on what other people are doing and report it, but I realized I can learn so much about how anthropologists do their work in ways that we as normal people can also do. I am very happy with the courses and hope to see where it will lead me.
Into our third week of Spring semester I am performing for an event hosted by Asian American Affairs (AAA). Our purpose of the dance that me and my team are performing, is to show diversity and entertain of course. Last week our AAA hosted an open kitchen in the Multicultural Center (MCC) where they served a Hmong/Lao tradition food called Khao Phiak. A food that is serve with cilantros, meat and thick, boil noodles. It can be made in different style and ways!
Other than school, I am going to Japan in the summer! I am going together with a group that I went to Seoul Korea and China 3 years ago. Along with new members that I still need to get to know. I am excited for the trip and I can’t wait to update when the time comes.
Until then Concord family, take care and stay tune for updates!
-Keng Thao
Keng Thao 