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January 16th was an interesting day at Age Up (as if any other day isn’t). It started off with Mandy laughing hysterically while rolling on the ground. She claimed she was being tickled but I believe that she is just weird. Everyone was setting up tables for dinner and delicious smells were wafting from the…

January 18th’s first year session was all about self-confidence and insecurity. We started off the night with delicious ratatouille and cous cous, then we checked in, as per usual. The first years grouped into their pre-assigned groups and, together, defined certain  words: confidence, insecurity, cocky, and self-image. Each group shared out their definitions and drawings.…

Welcome back, readers.  For clarification, the Youth Board consists of a group of returners responsible for AGE-UP’s long-term goals. This past Tuesday, the Youth Board got together to learn about “nonprofit” organizations. As we sat around the table eating sandwiches, Lynda arguably drew up the best agenda of all time. After, we played the Nonprofit game.…

  At this First year session Race was the topic. First we started off with check in and how we felt like usual. Then Lisa brought out all of her fruits to demonstrate how race is similar to vegetables and fruits. It sounds complicated but it’s not that complicated. Race is like sorting vegetables, it’s…

Today’s (yesterday’s) session was really great! We opened the night with some mouth-watering chili and cornbread, and we all chowed down while we did a check in. Linda chose the question tonight—“If you were a book, what book would you be?” There was definitely a lot of confusion as to what exactly that meant, but we…

Written By Susan On January 7, Tiffany, Azia, Jhanelle, Hana and I went to visit Planned Parenthood to prepare to run an upcoming workshop on Sex Ed. At Planned Parenthood, we talked to 3 different sex educators, Teddy, Megan, and Becky, about methods to facilitate a successful workshop. Going into the meeting, we had absolutely…

January 3rd Burrrrrr! The first years and the other years came out for a scrimmage today while the sun was still out. Shortly after we headed to Pho Rainier for a soup feast!!! It was amazing how we all just ate, chatted, and took a very uh-maz-ing down the table photo with NO ONE cut…

December 21st After having the delicious shepherd tamale for dinner made by our wonderful food group, we had an activity where we talked about socio economic status. The room was split into two sides, half was agree and the other was disagree.  We started off with easy simple questions like “Did you go to a…

*Sorry folks we are bit behind, this post is from last Friday! Enjoy!* This week we focused on the importance of the things that people say about one another. Whether it’s on a social media website, behind their backs, or in front of their faces. A lot of things that the first years didn’t like were…

Hola age up fanatics! On Saturday December 8th we went on an incredible field trip to the University of Washington. We were joined by the lovely dream project. A group devoted to helping first generation students go to college. They specifically work in King county and help low income students. The AgeUp girls had the…