Update Cho Tet-Lunar New Year Festival-Feb 3rd at Falls Church High School

Khoa already posted our ideas for the New Year Event. Thanks to Khoa to initiate it. Please contact Khoa if you'd like to help us with cooking, preparing, shopping. Thanks Jay for the suggestions. We definitely need to be more careful this time. Therefore, we came up with a game, similar to raffle and prizes. Please contact Vu Nguyen for more details. Dave: T-shirt and banh Chung (Vietnamese New Year Cake) Bao: his medical mission :)) I will be responsible for ordering, pricing and overall task. Well, basically, we are sincerely asking for your help. AAS Professionals and Students. We know that you can help us in so many ways include: 1) Buy AAS banh Chung (New Year Cake) - please ask your relatives and friends to support and buy AAS banh Chung. We are selling banh Chung with regular price in the market. 2) Transportation: It'll be lovely to have some extra drivers 3) Donation Box: Please make a nice-looking one. Also, this person can be in charge of decoration. 4) Outreach: We are hoping to have at least 15 students and 3 profs at the event. REMEMBER, we also help the HEALTH FAIR. Please contact Dave for more info. Ask your peers in school and out of AAS would be a PLUS!!! 5) Picking up T-shirt: Since I'm not very familiar with MD area, if someone would like to help me with T-shirt pick-up, that'll be great! 6) Preparation: include Cooking, set-up, etc. MOST IMPORTANT THING: Even though this project is a small one, I'd like to have as much involvement from AAS people as possible. Please remember, this project is not Khoa's, Vu's or my project, we are just volunteers like you all. We need your SUPPORT!!! Thanks, Minh-Ha

Cho Tet-Lunar New Year Festival-Feb 3rd at Falls Church High School

Hi everyone, As Minh Ha, Vu and I have been planning for our event at Cho Tet - Lunar New Year Festival. below are our idea for selling at Cho Tet. 1- Salted green mangos, pineapples (slides), with Asian chilli and salt. 2- Rafles - 10 prizes 3- Bo Bia - Vietnamese Rolls 4- AAS new design T-shirts 5- Banh Chung - Vietnamese traditional rice cakes Also, we are working on the schedule for all participate members to gather to prepare for the Festival. Saturday - Feb 2, meet at Minh Ha's house at 9:00 AM to preapre the food. Sunday - Feb 3, meet at 9:00 AM at Falls Church High School, VA to prepare, set up and decorate our table at the Festival. If you can give us a hand during preparation and the event (Sunday)...please reply me back at soon at possible. Also if you are intersted in vlunteer at the Health Fair during the festival can sign up with me too. So far we have Kendra, Long Hua, Vee Vu and more will be updated. Thank you and hope too see all of you there. -------------- Khoa Tran

Adoption of AASuccess Mandate/Meeting Minutes (2nd quarterly AAS Meeting)

All, In addition to what are listed in the meeting minutes and adopted action plan (attached), AAS Board/Council/Core Members/Supporters recommended that AAS should spend some time to "chill" during the month of Feb or March. How? Send your suggestions including a show of interest to AAsnews@aasuccess.org Quynh donlyq@gmail.com will help coordinate the process with a student volunteer.Please check with Kendra, Bao, Minh Ha, Robert, Elizabeth, Tam, Ian or me for any questions.For those who have not begun to inquire about your assigned committee, please do so at your earliest convenience. Silence or no communication before or on Feb 15 2008 is treated as an intent to withdraw from AASuccess. Thanks, Dave

AASuccess News

AASuccess News: Our Media Committee is still trying to ways to come up with the procedure. In the mean time, please be patient with us with regard to the email traffic. Join and celebrate TET (Vietnamese Lunar New Year) with AAS on Sunday, Feb 3rd, 2008 from 9:30am-2:30pm. Where: Falls Church High School. Please check with Minh Ha, Khoa or Vu for information. AAS is sending leads to coordinate and volunteer at the Health Fair organized by the Vietnamese Medical Society. When: Sunday, Feb 3rd, 2008. Lead: Elizabeth Do (student) and Bich Phuong (AAS professional). AAS Members who are planning to assist the team: Dave, Jacky, Bao Nguyen, Kendra, Tam Tran. Non-AS members are welcome to join the team. For more information, please contact Elizabeth or me. AAS is planning to announce a number of internships for qualified AAS members. Leadership activities at AAS do correlate to qualification for internships. Stipends may be included. Stay tuned for more information regarding the procedure. The following committees have initiated planning for its respective roles: AAS News/Flyer; Buddy System. First AAS Webinar and 2nd quarterly AAS Board/Exec Council/Supporter Meeting were conducted on Sat from 11-1:45 PM. See the attached (note to the media committee: you may want to use google doc to organize, store and publish the attached files. Unless the message is marked internal, we should publish all our data/info to the public. Quality Report for active members of AASuccess will be due soon. Please send to AASnews@aasuccess.org your progress report (bulletin points) should you wish the Exec/Board to consider you as active or seasoned/core member of AASuccess.

Thanks, Dave