AGE UP News & Updates

On February 14, 2014 – Valentine’s Day (!) during our AGE UP session we talked and discussed about sexuality and gender. We had guest speakers Sonny, Gabe and Jhanelle come in to our session. We started with the basic introduction of each other using name, pronoun and musical guilty pleasure. The activities we started with…

Hey it’s Yee and Sam! Today we had an awesome session where we talked about capitalism and poverty. We had some yummy Filipino food made by Kendra and Jhanelle. We had sinagang- a sour soup filled with shrimp, cabbage, tomatoes, and bitter melon. We also had bilo-bilo, a sweet dessert with ube, rice balls, coconut…

This is our third blog and Cyril is here to talk about what we did in today’s session. Today we had a session about relationships and dating. In this session we had a special guest, Shannon, from Northwest Network, who helped talk about some healthy and unhealthy relationships. We started off the session with a…

Hi, our names are Rose and Lizzy. This is our first blog post! Today’s session was led by Jhanelle and Gabriella. During the check-in, they introduced public speaking by asking us what our worst public speaking scenario was. Mine (Lizzy’s) was during finals week when I had to present a debate with my partner in…

Hello my name’s Marc and I’m Yu Wen. This is our second blog and we are going to tell you guys about how our AGE UP went today. We started off eating food that the girls AGE UP left and got Top Pot donuts from Sam TH. The boys had a special session taught by…

What’s up everyone! I’m guessing you have heard of AGE UP (which is an acronym for All Girl Everything Ultimate Program), which has been going on for a few years.  Just recently we gave it a little twist and made an AGE UP for guys – my name is Ray Santos and I am part…

Hey ya’ll! It’s Sam, Amanda, Rena and Amy from AGE UP. Today we woke up early on this “BEAUTIFUL” Saturday morning and departed to Seattle University. We then met up at their field to kick off our day with some Ultimate. We warmed our selves up and scrimmaged with the SU gals. We closed up…

Hey ya’ll! Today at AGE UP, we had a delicious meal provided by our amazing returners. We had yummy Kapoon, which is Laotian food. Our alumni, Lynda, came up with this great recipe! In today’s AGE UP session, we had a workshop on Colonization and how that affects us today. This workshop was displayed by…

Hi my name is Deqa, today we had a tournament on the field next to Mercer. It was SOO fun, because there were several activities (Ultimate related) that you could choose to do. I decided to play the Goaltimate with Gwen, and although it was hard, I kept trying, and I was encouraged which was…

Hey its Sam and today at age up we started our session off by becoming one with our bodies and becoming aware of our breath with a calming yoga session from Katelyn. We all had wonderful downward dogs! Afterwards, we enjoyed a delicious dinner made by our cooks: Jude, Ramon, Amy, Alex and Sam. They…