Tag: social justice

  • Healthy Relationships

    Long time no see. It’s Linda, who never blogs! Before we start off with anything, today we ate delicious Mexican food made by our cooking group! Yum! Today, we were joined with Nathaniel Shara and Vijou Bryant from the Northwest Network to discuss the topic of healthy relationships. This topic was especially important because everyone…

  • Fried Rice and Self Awareness

    Hello world! It’s Sophie again. So on Friday we started our session with a wonderful fried rice with soy beans, eggs and other tasty stuff. It was delicious! Thank you, cooking team. Great job as always. Our guest speaker was unfortunately delayed in traffic so our discussion started later than planned. But! Our wonderful guest finally…

  • Second Years Get Recappin’ (And Other Stuff)

    Hello, hello, readers. Hope you all enjoyed your day. I sure did. The AGE-UP page on facebook got 18 more likes! Good job, media group and others! Anyway, this past Tuesday, we sat around a triangular array of tables and had chili for dinner. We then explained the racism workshop for those who were unable to attend.…

  • A Trip to Bellingham

    Ah! Frisbee at last. It’s Sophie again! After being snowed in for the last two AGE UP sessions, we were able to stretch our legs and play some Ultimate (although some members played Ultimate in the snow during the break). We boarded the bus at Jefferson at 7:45am, a nice and early start to our…

  • Facing Body Image

    Good afternoon bloggers! Linda wrote a majority of the post, so credits to her! Today’s session was about our perceptions of beauty and specifically, body image. The workshop was led by our 2nd years, Jhanelle, Frances, and Soriya. It was also the session where coaches and players participated in separate workshops. To be honest, we clicked better…

  • Second Years Get Personal

    Hello, hello, readers. It’s Amanda, again. This week, the Top Chef group (with the addition of yours truly), graced us with homemade, whole-wheat pizzas! We’re not talking Hawaiian, pepperoni, or Canadian bacon, either. There were a total of five pizzas topped with ingredients ranging from broccoli, green bell peppers, mushrooms, and olives, to squash and…

  • 2nd Years Tackle Racism

    2nd Years Tackle Racism

    There are millions of problems happening throughout the world but one of them has proven that it is able to make or break our society for good and for bad: racism. It has traveled all throughout the world as a horrific memory from the past to an ungrateful “gift” in our present. If you were…

  • Friday Session on Ageism

    Hey it’s Hallie! I came early on Friday to find Team Top Chef cooking up their concoctions downstairs in the kitchen (which turned out to be yummy burrito-tacos) and a circle of coaches and some 1st and 2nd years trying to decipher Alice’s riddle. “SuzypassesthedisctoBob,whothrowsittoJoe,whoeatsitandpoopsitoutandgivesitMarywhothrows-itintheairandbirdcatchesit. Who has it?” “I do.” Most people figured it out,…

  • The AGE-UP Family Gets A Little Bigger

    Greetings everyone, I’m Amanda, also an AGE UP second year. This past Friday marked the beginning of our winter sessions for first years (new participants). We kicked off the program with introductions within a HUGE circle (I’m talking a total of 50+ coaches, first years, and second years) to allow everyone to get familiar with…