International Club.

I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you all about a cool thing that went on this week here at CMC.

The Alpine Campus (and possibly other campuses) has the International Club. Basically, they meet every so often and put on events to raise cultural awareness. This past week, Monday - Thursday, they put on the Festival Week of Events. Everyday they put on a different event to inform people about various Native American customs as well as some international ones. I have to honest and admit that I personally did not partake in any of these events, but I just wanted to give any prospective students an idea of what the International Club does.

Monday started it off with a Beading Workshop in the MPR here in Hill Hall (the residence hall) where Noreen Johnson showed students various techniques for beading necklaces and various pieces of artwork with simple string and beads.

Tuesday was the ESL Cultural Festival, which was put on by the English as a Second Language school in here in Colorado. This event was open to the public and took place in Willet Hall above the cafeteria and consisted of various booths of different cultures' foods and information about their people and history.

Wednesday had two events. In the afternoon, there was a Solomon Island dance lesson in the gym in Bristol Hall, which was free and open to the public, where people could learn the traditional dances of the natives of the Solomon Islands That night, again in Willet Hall above the cafeteria, they had a showing of the movie City of God, which is an excellent movie, based on a true story, about two boys who grow up in a housing project in Rio de Janiero called Cidade de Deus (City of God). The movie shows their lives and how one becomes a photographer and the other gets mixed up in drugs. I don't want to give anything away but I would definitly recommened it.

The last event, on Thursday, was another dance lesson in the gym, again free and open to the public, where people could learn traditional Ute Indian dances along with drumming techniques.

Like I said, I unfortunetly didn't partake in these events but it seemed like a really cool thing the International Club put on, but I thought I'd let you know about it, and hopefully it gave you another reason to come out to Colorado Mountain College. Peace.