Hello suns! I hope you’re all enjoying your summer break as we’re halfway through it. Summer is generally filled with fun memories while basking in the sunlight like lizards. We’re definitely making the transition back to in-person Key Club. With solid dates for Beach Boomba, Fall Rally South, and Rose Float Decorating, the in-person future seems bright for all Key Clubbers. As we roll out even more in-person service events, also look forward to our in-person socials with other clubs. Be hyped as we have a lot in store for all of you! At the same time, please make sure to always be safe and healthy! Don’t overwork yourselves as I’ve done in the past, and make sure to take care of yourselves whether it’s against the harsh rays of the sun or against the dangers of the virus running amok in our world. I hope all of you can confidently say that you’re all truly enjoying yourselves when you attend Key Club events while still maintain your health. I only have excitement for the future of Key Club and the events that are soon to be. The possibilities are honestly endless, so if you want us to plan something, just let me know! We’re trying our best to make up for all of the lost time and it’s all for you suns! Until next time, signing off.
Lydia Lee Lydia Lee OAKC President 2021-2022
Hey suns! I hope that all of you have been making the most out of your summer so far as it begins to come to a close. Over the past couple of months, OAKC has began to start in person service projects and we hope that you can attend with your friends and have fun volunteering! While we’ve began in person service projects, we still have ongoing online service events like Charity Miles, Swim Dash, and more! It’s so easy to gain volunteer hours while contributing to the community and just going on our daily lives but it can make such a big difference in someone’s else life. I hope that everyone can stay safe and healthy as well with school starting soon. Enjoy the last couple weeks of our summer and goodluck on the upcoming school year!
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Tiffany Ong | 12 | Vice President This month, Oxford Academy Key Club has transitioned into not only doing virtual service projects, but also in-person events now! I was able to go to my first in-person volunteering event in over a year, and it made me realize just how much I missed the feeling of helping, or even interacting with, others. This past year, I’ve honestly lost so much motivation to participate in service projects, especially the repetitive virtual ones, since there’s only so much we can do online, and it was even hard for me to simply stay involved in Key Club. However, after I got vaccinated and it was safe for me to finally go out to in-person events, I immediately started signing up for all the events I could attend. HOPE Food Distribution was the first in-person event that I attended this term, and even though getting up at 6am was a huge challenge for me, I had the most fun I have ever had in a while at HOPE. I was glad I was able to help others set up for the distribution, and the fact that Oxford Key Clubbers’ service was clearly greatly appreciated at the event really put a smile on my face. Seeing all the volunteers being grateful for our help made me happy, as did the fact that I actually was able to help a bunch of people in my community. I missed the feeling of helping others, and the event really made me realize why I had joined Key Club in the first place. Those three hours motivated me to keep going and keep serving the community. Plus, I feel like our lives are finally slowly getting back to normal, and I can’t wait to see what our club will accomplish throughout the rest of the term!
Zuleyka Urieta | 12 | Historian I am not a morning person. You’d believe that I wouldn’t miss leaving the comfort of my bed for a service event that starts at 6:30 in the morning, yet this is surprisingly not the case. Since my freshman year of high school Hope Food Distribution has been my favorite service event that Oxford Academy key club partakes in. It is one of the many in person events that takes place throughout the term, so when the pandemic restricted this event from occurring it definitely made me realize just how much I appreciated the experience brought fourth by this service event. On the surface the event might seem average; key clubbers distribute different types of food at Saint Irenaeus Catholic Church, these foods range from boxed pizza to packaged strawberry filled croissants. Nevertheless, Hope Food Distribution is so much more than a service event to rack up your key club hours. First of all, the connections you make with the other volunteers, whether from key club or the local community, are wholesome and always brighten up your Sunday morning. Furthermore, the manner in which the faces of the people that you’re serving light up with joy and gratitude fuel your motivation to continue to genuinely make a difference( no matter how big or how small). Despite several months of not having the opportunity to volunteer at Hope Food Distribution with my fellow key clubbers amidst a global pandemic, the day finally came where I could sign up to once again step foot on the St. Irenaeus Church. This day was June 19 of 2021. Although wearing face masks while serving and distributing food to the back of car trunks instead of the hands of those in need was different, the love I have for Hope Food Distribution continued to be the same. With that being said I encourage any old or new key club member to participate in this service event, yes…even if you’re not a morning person.
Helen Tran | 10 | Publicist Hunger hero was my first ever official Oxford Academy Key Club service event, and it was a blast! For two days at Food Finders Inc., we packed COVID Relief boxes to be sent to partner organizations that would distribute them throughout the community. There was a set list of what needed to be included in each box, and we would first fold the cardboard and tape it to make the box. Figuring out how to use the packing tape gun was quite a challenging experience, but the smooth results were so satisfactory. Anyways, we would then proceed to grab the food then pack them before finally taping the box shut with another strip of tape. Every 60 boxes were packed to be one shipment, and I am so proud to say that we finished over three! There were three days planned for this service event, but because we worked so hard, we ran out of specific food items as well as space in the warehouse to continue packing boxes! I was truly proud to hear this, though I was a little sad about Friday being canceled because all of my shifts were so fun— I got to meet other Key Club members that I had not talked to previously, and made new friends! I really hope we get to work with Food Finders again, and all in all, I’m just so excited about more in-person volunteering events :)
Leann Vo | 11 | Treasurer In-person events are starting once again! From the beginning of quarantine until the month of June, I haven’t gotten the chance to attend a single in-person event. The Anaheim YMCA Blood Drive was a great way to jump into volunteering in-person again. I volunteered with two of my friends and the YMCA staff were so kind. The three of us helped to set up tents to block out the heat and moved the tables around. When blood-donors arrived, we helped sign them up and register to donate blood. We also checked donor’s driver’s licenses to confirm their identity. Once we checked their license, we scanned their temperatures and scanned their barcodes that were given to the donors during online registration. Despite leaving with a sunburnt and being so exhausted, I had a great time volunteering out of the house for the first time in forever.
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Kaylin Chan | 10 | Historian As an incoming sophomore, my first year in Key Club was during COVID-19, the pandemic, and everyone was in quarantine. Throughout the year, everything, whether service projects, bonding events, meetings, or Division Council Meetings, was virtual. Recently, the situation here has been improving drastically, which has led to the tentative “re-opening” or rather “re-beginning” of in-person service projects -- ones I, in my entire year of being a freshman in Key Club, had never had the opportunity to experience! The very first in-person event I went to was a place that unpacked donated foods and prepared balanced packages for kids. The description does not do justice to the real event. To my surprise, this in-person event was much, much more exciting and enjoyable than I had imagined! I was able to volunteer with other people, and the packing was actually very interesting, since the food we packed was different each time, the process was smooth and orderly, and the atmosphere was just so alive. Perhaps it was due to the contrast from before, but I found that in-person events were basically a different world! I love and cherish the online service projects, as well, but my first experience doing an in-person service event was amazing, and I hope more people will begin to come to these in-person ones. It’s definitely worth the drive, ride, and time! In-person service projects are an experience that Key Clubbers definitely wouldn’t like to miss!
Rachel Kim | 10 | Historian One of the highlights of June was probably being able to attend in-person events for the first time! For the past year, all our service projects were in a virtual setting due to the pandemic, which was unfortunate but we still had made the best out of the situation. This month, I was able to go volunteer at Sonrise Community Church Feeding and Friendly Center Food Distribution. After going to these in-person events, I found more inspiration to go out and continue serving. At Sonrise Community Church, a few other volunteers from OA Key Club and I helped out with their local food distribution from 9:30 AM to 2:15 PM. We set up the area and unloaded boxes of food ranging from different kinds of bread to fruits to frozen liquid eggs. Then, we sorted these goods into separate boxes to give to the low-income families around Buena Park who drove to the church to pick up these boxes of food. We also handed out relief boxes full of food for these families, as well as to other smaller organizations and churches who came by to provide for others in their communities. It was a lot of manual work, but it was nevertheless great to see smiles on the people we were helping out by doing this. We still had a lot of fun amidst the busy work, as we were sorting and distributing food while blasting K-pop through a speaker (with permission of course)! The second in-person service event I attended was the food distribution at Friendly Center in Orange. Since one of my friends was available, I took them with me to volunteer here, especially because she had never participated in a Key Club service event yet. Before people began coming at 10 AM, we were preparing by setting up the distribution areas and unpacking the boxes of items that needed to be handed out. These items included apples, bread, potatoes, and canned food in which would be given to low-income or minority families in Orange. There were many families who came by, and we gave out portions of the food to the families. Also, being the historian of OA Key Club, I had fun taking pictures of our volunteers helping out the visiting families. I would definitely say that in-person volunteering with your friends is an exciting way to get those hours in! Being able to physically interact with the people who I was helping out, as well as working with different volunteers of the organizations gave me the motivation to keep wanting to go volunteer at these events. It excites me to think that there are even more service events and projects prepared for us to participate in! If you haven’t already, check out our recap posts/ pictures, and stay updated to sign up for our future in-person events!
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Joseph Lukas | 12 | Spirit Chair Hey Oxford Suns! Since we are starting to transition back into in-person service projects, some of you guys might not know what to expect as we last had in-person service projects in March 2020. That’s such an extremely long time ago!! In this article, I’ll give you some advice on what to do when you volunteer in-person as we slowly but surely get more and more in-person service projects!
Be there a little early or on time! It’s always important to make sure that you’re there for the full time of the event so then you can ensure that you’ll get the full number of hours! If you’re late, you might not get the full number of hours as the officer that’s chairing the event has to be honest when reporting hours to our secretary.
Make sure to find your fellow Suns! One of the joys of in-person volunteering is being able to volunteer alongside your friends! If you don’t have any friends at a service event that you’re going to, then don’t be afraid to talk to the other Suns that are at the event and make new friends! I promise you that the older Suns don’t bite (for the most part )
Listen to whoever’s giving you instructions! Remember, the main reason why you are at that event is to give back to your community in some way. Make sure to pay attention to the tasks that are given to you by the person in-charge! It’s not very nice if you show up to the event and just do nothing the whole time, and it might lead the person in-charge to not invite us back for future service projects
Be willing to communicate with your Suns and the people in charge! In the event that you need help or are lost, make sure to talk to the people around you! It’s natural to get lost in what you need to do, or maybe you don’t fully understand what you need to do. That’s the beauty of having your fellow Suns with you! They can help you understand what you need to do at the event so you can get on task! If there’s something that you feel uncomfortable doing, don’t be afraid to talk to the person in charge. In most cases, they might have a lot of tasks that you can do, so there’s probably something that suits what you can do!
Finally, have fun! It’s very important that you have a good time while doing in-person service projects so then you can have fun memories to look back on! Whether it be with your fellow Suns or by yourself, Key Club wants to ensure that you have some fun experiences to look back upon so you continue to volunteer more in your community in the future! Whether it be with Key Club or with outside organizations post-high school, having fun memories will help to create a positive association with volunteering, which helps motivate yourself to stay dedicated to volunteering (and to Key Club!)
There’s a nice list of things that you should follow/look forward to when going to in-person service projects! If you follow this list of things to do, I promise you that you’ll have memorable experience at any in-person service project you go to. Have fun getting those hours in-person Suns!
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Lynne Ta | 11 | Bulletin Editor Officer Training Conference is always held around June eve ry year, across the entire regi Club. OTC was a long, educati on to help officers prepare for onal and enjoyable Key Club their role in Key event held on Saturday June th session was for Bulletin Editor 19 by all the LTGS across Reg where I got to listen to my IP ion 3. My Bulletin Editor, who is now our about the roles of a publicist, Lieutenant Governor, Christina tech editor, bulletin editor, and Nguyen speak historian. We got to understa and tricks to improve. nd what our position entails and got new tips The second workshop I attende d was for Public Speaking held by Division 04 West Lieutenant District Governor, Amy Wang. Governor, Diane Dao and CNH For a long time, I’ve always real ’s very own ly struggled with my public spea “uhm” or reading off the scre king, stuttering and saying “like en when I was too nervous duri ” and ng my presentations. Howeve on how to memorize and soun r through the workshop, I was d like a natural public speaker. able to gain tips Always stick to the 3P’s, Prep memorized, cue cards ready. are, where I make sure I have Practice which is essential to my spee ch having a good speech and Perf workshop that I learned a lot orm! It was a very entertaining from and was the highlight for and usef ul OTC.
Kenneth Nguyen | 11 | Project Chair On June 19th, Region 3 of the CNH Key Club District hosted the Officer Training Conference, often known as OTC, to train and help their region’s officers on their tasks and duties. This was my 2nd OTC of my Key Club journey, and unfortunately, it was similar to last year’s due to the virtual setting. However, I was still able to learn a lot as well as meet new people from all over the region. If you didn’t know, our Region is composed of 7 divisions, D04W, D04E, D04S, D04N, D04C, D30N, and D30S (our division!). In this conference, there were 2 workshops, with breaks in between for lovenotes (affirmations). For the first workshop, the options were position related breakout rooms. Already attending the Treasurer and Secretary workshops previously in previous conferences, I decided to attend the Vice President workshop. Although I am not currently a vice president, the information that I learned was very helpful, not only if it gave me advice as a president for another club, but also because it taught about how we can be a leader that not only can delegate tasks and make decisions, but also work under someone (a president). For the second workshop, I attended the Service Projects workshop again, since my position is Project Chair. I learned what a service hour is and the Major Emphasis Project. Although OTC is quite long, it was an educational experience where I was able to see officers from all over Region 3 meet up. Hopefully next year, OTC is in-person like usual, and I will get to meet new people! Along with OTC and DCMs being significant events, the RiverBed Farm event have been an exciting event that Victoria and I wish to continue to have for our club in the future. This event was my first in-person event since February 2020, right before quarantine started. I remember my last event was Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast in La Palma/Cypress, and this event gave me memories of how fun my freshman year in Key Club was. At this event, myself and 2 other volunteers helped pull out dead plants from the farm for the majority of the time, since it allowed the “farmers” to know what plants needed to be planted more, as well as to get rid of anything that won’t be used. After, we planted basil seeds all over the farm, so we got our hands dirty for a while. Lastly, we were able to help out with the chickens, harvesting the eggs as well as refilling their food container. This plant/crop farm was an amazing event, since we were able to help out a farm that is non-profit, donating all of the plants, vegetables, and eggs! I hope to continue to attend in-person events both during the summer as well as the school year!
Victoria Tran | 10 | Projec t Chair Whew! First quarter of key club is over already? These last three months have def Key Club. With the new Div initely been the best since ision Leadership Team leadin I joined g us at the DCMs and our every week is so much to tak in-person events coming bac e in. I am really glad to see k our general members posting the fun they are having at on their Instagram stories all our in-person events. Going to a few myself, I have rea have missed out on becaus lly enjoyed the human inte e of quarantine. Every volunt raction I eer experience is different just sitting around and clic and it’s just so much better king buttons on my comput than er. In addition, I recently went to Officer Training Conferen ce, and it was a magical exp for what I want my Key Clu erience. Exploring my option b future to look like is someth s ing I think about a lot. This my mind more by giving my trai ning conference really ope insight and advice for my ned responsibilities and duties. long conferences and the Sometimes, I look at these se report forms like a chore, four-hour but once I start doing them, I can enjoying my work. It’s the sam ’t stop, and I find myself e with my project chair resp onsibilities. When I think, “Oh internet again...” I find myself no, time to start searching dreading it, but then once the I sta rt, it’s like I am on a roll and what kind of special effect cannot stop. I don’t know Key Club has on me, but it definitely making me more club. and more passionate abo ut this Just hearing about in-perso n DCMs excite me a lot and I go even crazier when I hea Rally. I can’t wait for Key Clu r about Beach Boomba and b to get back in-person and Fall if I didn’t believe that my Key better, I now know that it can Club experience could get because all these events are coming up and I am so eag Key Club was the best time er to go. If the first quarter I’ve had in Key Club, how of will I feel after all the fun-fille d events coming? I can’t wa it!
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Lydia Lee | 12 | President On June 30th, John F. Kennedy Key Club and Oxford Academy Key Club hosted a joint social where we were able to participate in a variety of activities. These activities included watching interactive movies, participating in a service project, Pictionary, a Kahoot, and more! It was our last online social (as of now), and, as the President, I hope we don’t have any more. We do have in-person socials in progress, so be excited for those! Anyways, the social was quite the learning experience. Tiffany, Joseph, and I planned our first social together and it was not up to our expectations. We faced several technical difficulties and made many last minute changes. However, flexibility and being able to adapt to abrupt obstacles is necessary in any leadership position, and this social proved it once more. From the meeting ending at exactly 2pm, when it was actually supposed to start, to the absence of one of our chaperones, the whole social was much messier than I’d like to admit. Although we had started planning far in advance, last minute changes were impossible to avoid. Regardless of the setbacks we faced, being able to converse with Marilyn, the JFK President, and her spirit chairs was an enlightening experience as we planned a whole social together. This social was definitely not one of the best we’ve seen, but I hope that everyone who attended had an enjoyable time and liked their experience. I definitely do look forward to the future socials as this is just the beginning of Oxford x ?’s storyline! Who’s next? You’ll find out soon. :D
Devanshi Kothari | 11 | Secretary One event we had this past month was the joint social between Division 30 North, Division 16 West, Division 16 East, and our division, Division 30 South. During this social, I was able to meet so many new people from not only my division but the three other divisions that were present at the event. At the beginning of the event, we were welcomed in with fun music and were asked to rename ourselves by including our division and school name in our names. Then, we were sorted into breakout rooms. Personally, I was in breakout room 2 where we began with a quick icebreaker where each of us present in the room introduced ourselves and talked about our favorite music artist, music genre, or song. Afterward, we began writing our rap! In our breakout room, our room leaders shared a google doc with us where we brainstormed ideas and began to form verses for our rap. Our rap slowly developed into a 3-verse long rap focused on the two regions present at the social, region 3 and region 7! We finalized our rap and one of the members present in the breakout room volunteered to rap in the main room. Once we reached the main room, everyone took a 15-minute break and during the break, the LTGs read out Lovebox messages that were positive messages submitted to a google form that was circulated at the beginning of the event. One hour into the social, we were called back into the main room and the rap battle began. One by one, each breakout room began presenting their raps and I was amazing at how each rap was simply so energetic and fun! Talent began to shine, and the raps were so good! In all, this event was super exciting and showcased incredible creativity. I enjoyed the event thoroughly and it showed to me the different ways Key Club spirit can be represented. All the rappers did amazing and presented their raps with great energy. This event was one of the most entertaining, engaging, and spirited virtual events I have been to this past year, and I hope to get to go to more exciting events soon!
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Megan Tran | 10 | Publicist June 26th, the day of the D16W, D16E, D30N, and D30S Joint Social, my spirit coordinator partners and EAs were put up to the job of leading the breakout rooms. The social itself felt very spontaneous and last-minute, despite it being scheduled weeks beforehand. The upcoming week before the social, I was behind on how planning was going, and the day before the event, I found out we were going to be doing a rap battle. My first reactions were, “What…rapping?? I can’t even rap... What if I have to rap in front of everyone!?!?!?” This brought a little bit of anxiety and nervousness to me before the social, however, I went into it with an open mind and was prepared for what I was about to face. My breakout room leading partner was Natalie, one of our EAs, so it was nice to see a family face, but this was my first time leading a breakout room with people from outside D30S, so I was intimidated by that. Little did I know, I had nothing to be nervous about. As soon as I joined the breakout room, I felt everyone’s energy matching mine. In my room, I had a mix of all the divisions: D16E, D30S, D16W which meant I didn’t know that many people. We did popcorn intros and got to know a little bit about each other, then we got straight to composing our rap. At the pace we were writing those lines, we finished our rap in under 15 minutes, with 15 minutes left to spare to exchange socials and practice our rap. Natalie and I “volunteered” to rap our Key Club rap, and the rest of our group was put up to the task of hyping us up during the rap. Tyler, a Key Club member from D16E, started saying things like, “YUH, SCREE, SKRT, YEET” during the rap and at that point, I couldn’t hold back my tears of laughter. Then it came the time to perform our rap to all the other divisions in the main room. The opening of our rap started with, “YEET, SKRT, SCREE, YA, YEET” by the one and only Tyler, and after that everyone on the Zoom burst into laughter. Then it was my cue, I rapped my verse: YUH YEE we the BEEs, always staying SAFE KEY All we do is service, when Tyler spits his bars, everyone gets nervous!! Yah we the bees, we have the keys, we always on beat Room five don’t take Ls, we the beasts, Sit down, accept your defeat, We come from 30 North, 30 South, 16 West, plus the EASTTT!!! Pack up your bags, take a seat, take your defeat, We on BEAT! We do SERVICE, we do FUN We be Axolotls, Koalas, Rhinos, and the SUNSSS!!
After we finished our rap, everyone was surprised by our performance, so surprised their jaws dropped and they froze from shock. Hearing all the other breakout rooms’ raps surprised me because they were all so good, which made it hard to vote. In the end, the results were announced, and my group got 2nd place!! Second place is not first but winning does not matter when you have a lot of fun. After the social, my face was red with laughter and I came out of it knowing I made new friends, which is the best feeling. Key Club socials are my favorite thing ever because of the hype and excitement from everyone else. Everyone should go to socials because they are honestly such memorable experiences. Shout to room 5 if any of you guys are reading this!