OAKC Newsletter May 2017

MAY 2017 | VOL XVII | ISSUE III

Springing Into

Service

Key Club International |CNH District I Region 3 I Division 30 South I OAKC

1 Table of Contents & Updates 3 Calendar & Upcoming Events 5 President’ Corner

6 Editor’s Note 7 District Convention 12 April DCM 16 St. Irenaeus Service 18 New Term, New Hopes 22 Contact Us!!

Table Of Contents & Updates

Come Join us at Marie’s for some fantastic food and pie! There will be games, friends, awards and much more! See you there!

Help fight against disease and save mothers and their babies from peril by buying stylish shirts and swanky sweaters for 7 and 17!

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T-Shirt Contest Final Day / CLUB BANQUET

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President’s Corner Hello Sunshines!

Welcome to the first newsletter of the new term! I'm Samantha, your new president, and I'm honored to be able to continue serving all of you in the upcoming months; together, I know that we can take this term to new heights. I'd also like to cordially invite all of you to our club banquet on May 19 to celebrate all of our accomplishments during the 2016-2017 term; contact me for more information!

Since most of you don't know me that well, here are a few fun facts about me: 1) I'm really bad at folding paper airplanes. Or doing anything involving origami, really; I can never seem to fold lines straight.

2) I may seem really awkward or unapproachable, but I love to meet new people, so feel free to say hi if you see me around campus or stop me if you'd like to talk!

3) I love okapis, boba, sushi, ramen, In-N-Out, dim-sum, KBBQ, Chick-fil -A, Snickers, and just good in general (no spicy though!). Don't buy me any okapis because they're endangered, but if you get me food I'll probably love you forever.

4) I'm terrible at math (though Mr. V makes calculus pretty fun), and I really enjoy history, English, and Spanish.

And that's it about me for now. Feel free to come up and talk to me whenever you see me at meetings or events; I'm really not that scary, I promise.

I know the next few weeks will be tough with APs, final exams, projects, and more, but I believe in y'all, and don't forget that summer's almost here! (And with summer comes more time to volunteer!)

Stay strong, do your best, and remember to keep on serving; you all make my proud every single day, and I know that you'll do amazing no matter what!

Love, Samantha

Editor’s Note Hey ;) My name’s Jeremie, but you can call me by whatever you like. Some call me Jeremiah, Jerome, or even Jerbear. Welcome to my first ever Key Club Newsletter, and as for starters, I’ll tell you a few things about myself: •

Gum of any type, ranging from peppermint to watermelon, is my most favorite thing in the world. Although I’ll probably get lock-jaw or wornout joints in the future, it’ll be well worth it.

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I have a crazy passion for languages and linguistics. The culture that is defined within one’s local language is absolutely incredible to me, and is something I thoroughly enjoy studying everyday, finals or not. In March, my friends pooled in some money to buy me a AP Spanish book for the upcoming year, knowing I was definitely going to take it. I can’t thank them enough for it, and I hope to not only become fluent in Spanish but French, Japanese, and Dutch one day.

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Games are my life! League of legends, Civilization V, and even Minecraft at times are my favorite things to play, and I enjoy every single minute of it.

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History is my favorite subject! That’s right; the class you sleep in and hope is over is the class I always get electric goosebumps in. I love history because the way I see it, everything, in one way or another, is connected. From Carthage losing against the Romans during the Punic wars to Columbus sailing the ocean blue in 1492, life is shaped and defined by the actions and commands made by the people before us.

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Music-wise, I like anything, but in particular, I’ve been falling in love with lofi hiphop. Although a lot of my friends my disapprove, the mellow cadence and swanky rythms every song of the genre brings to the table are always so fantastic and is something I can’t help but adore.

Enough about me, though, since I could pretty much keep going on forever. If you wanted to know more, you could always just hit me up, even though I might have headphones always on (don’t tell Admin!). Anyway, I hope you enjoy the letter, our new board, and I can’t wait to show you the great things to come every month of the year.

Cheers, Jeremie

DCON 2017

By Brittney Le I Publicist

DCON is one of the biggest events that Key Club holds, aside from Fall Rally South. DCON stands for District Convention, and it’s a three day event that gathers everyone from California, Nevada, and Hawaii. There, we celebrate all of our accomplishments, learn new skills from workshops, and welcome in the new board for the 2017-

2018 term. This minute chance to go to DCON, and it was all thanks to a friend who wasn’t able to attend. Although I was given the task to take the photos of DCON for our club, it was an opportunity that I couldn’t be more grateful to experience. As it was so unexpected, I had no idea

about what was going on and what we even do at DCON. Through these three days, I was able to capture exactly what it was and what makes up Key Club. I went to many workshops and meetings throughout the three days with my Key Club friends. During this weekend, I got to strengthen the bonds that I had with friends from Oxford Academy, but I also got to make tons of new friends from other schools. I met people from not only our division, but I also got to befriend people from all over

the Cali-Nev-Ha region. DCON was such a worthwhile experience, and I’m so glad to have gotten the opportunity to attend. I met so many new friends that I can’t wait to see at upcoming Key Club events and next year at DCON. It was truly a highlight of my sophomore year, and is one I'll never forget.

By Samantha Yao I Pres.

Missing prom was absolutely worth it for what I can say was one of the best weekends in my life. DCON 2017

was held at Anaheim Convention Center from April 7-9.

Even though it was just right in our backyard, it was a surreal

experience to meet Key Clubbers both old and new from all across California, Nevada, and Hawaii.

My favorite memory from DCON was being recognized as distinguished treasurer during Saturday’s awards session.

While I was waiting in the back for my turn to go onstage, I was incredibly nervous, but talking to the other treasurers helped me realize that I should be proud of all the work that I had put in over the 2016-2017 term to help our club achieve success. It was humbling to get to meet our district treasurer and to be recognized in front of thousands of other Key Clubbers, and it was definitely a big Key Club moment for me.

Three short days passed by

in a flash, and soon I found myself on Sunday morning taking pictures and saying goodbyes. Seeing the old district board retire and the new board be installed was what made me realize that the 1617 term was really, truly finally coming to an end.

Oxford Key Club, thank you so much for allowing me to serve as your immediate past treasurer.

You all have been there to support me through all my mistakes and ups and downs, and I wouldn’t be anywhere near where I am now without all of you. I am honored to continue serving you in the upcoming year as your president, and I know that together we can reach even bigger, better heights.

2017 APRIL DCM

By Jessica Martinez I Historian

April DCM was the first DCM of the term and it was an event that I had a lot of fun doing. I had a chance to see an old friend and meet new people. I had a great time overall and I can’t wait for the next DCM. In the beginning, Vivian talked about the club and some of the

past events. Some people talked about their goals for this year and what they planned on doing. Then, we all got put into teams. Oxford was paired with Katella and Los Alamitos. We had to work together in order to win the challenges and games. A challenge was that we had to say a Key Club cheer along

with a movement. We all had to do it and say it together which was fun to do and to see others do it. If we repeated one of them then we would get disqualified and we would have to sit down. Another game that we played involved our team having to make a long line.

We had to hold on to someone’s shoulder while someone else placed their hands on our shoulder. The last person in the back had to have a piece of cloth hanging on their back. The goal was to pull another team’s piece of cloth.

While we tried to pull someone else’s cloth, other teams tried to pull our piece of cloth. Although we lost that game on the first round, it was an exciting game to play.

The first place winner was our team! As a team we won 1st place along with Katella and Los Alamitos.

Towards the end, each school had to send two representatives to model and to do a pose. I think that everyone liked that challenge the most

because it was funny to see people model and to see their creativity.

For our school, Leonel and Amber were our representatives. They posed and modeled and did the traditional Oxford jumping jacks. In the end, it was between us, Los Alamitos, and Katella. The winner would get to take home the spirit stick and bring it back on the next DCM. In order to see who the winner was, each of the three schools had to send someone that would have to hula-hoop. Julianne was our representative. Los Alamitos ended up winning and taking the spirit stick home. Even if we didn’t win we all had a great time working with Katella and Los Alamitos.

It was a very fun DCM and it was the highlight of my weekend!

By Vina Nguyen I Secretary

Beginning in the 2017-18 term was LTG Vivian Bui’s first DCM, April DCM definitely a memorable one and a great kick-start into the new term. Not only just the usual division updates, the new Division Leadership Team was annou we played so many fun, bonding games. Special congratulations to all those w DLT including Tracy Vu, Julianne Gamiao, Leonel Contreras, and Helen Phan! I Sunny Team will do amazing in the new term. This DCM was more of a compe among the club buddies. Club buddy schools got to compete in games such as and even the special addition of Poncho using Division 30 South cheers. Throu DCM, I got to make new friends and bond with many people. It was a great ex and I had such a great time.

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SERVIN’ AT ST. IRENAEUS

By Emily Sunaryo I Publicist

This month’s article, I have chosen to write about the St. Irenaeus HOPE Food Distribution, as I found as it is an event I have grown to love and appreciate. This event is very special to me, because it is the first event I attended as a new freshman in Key Club, and this event had pushed me into continuing my path in Key Club today.

This event really opened my eyes

to how much acts of kindness can really affect others. Waking up at 6:30 in the morning on Saturday isn’t ideal, but the looks of appreciation I am given, and the “thank you’s” and smiles make it all worth it. Although its just passing food out to the less fortunate, it really makes you appreciate we have, and to show a sense of gratitude instead of asking for what we

don’t have. Through this event, I was able to understand the true meaning of Key Club, to give back to the community, and to build a strong and caring foundation for those around us, and to always give a helping hand whenever given the chance. I plan on continuing attending this event every other week, and chairing this event as well.

By Jeremie Manuel I B. Editor

One of my favorite moments of this year was being able to participate in a thing called St. Irenaeus Tutoring. This opportunity has radically changed my life in ways I would’ve never expected. Originally, I was nervous because I’ve never really been great with kids, but after a few days, I sincerely started to think about how much I enjoy helping those awesome rascals. I’m telling you, they’re the most precious and pure little things, and that truth was set in stone when they began to give me hilariously cute cards, trinkets, and awesome origamis

(ones that I taught them!!) just for the heck of it. Being able to join this club only recently has really made an impact in my year. From being an active body in my community to being able to achieve the role of a board member on my first year in Key Club, my sophomore year has really been a blast and I can’t wait to keep going on for the next year and the one right after.

NEW TERM, NEW HOPES

By Huda Saleh I VP

Hello everyone! With DCON ending try my best to not let you all down. a couple of weeks ago, I am excited To any new board members, I want to say that the new Key Club term to congratulate you all for your hard has officially started! It’s bitterwork up to this point. I am pleassweet to think about this being my antly awaiting to see what great last year in Key Club and my last things you will accomplish this year of high school. At the same term! I am sure your achievements time, I am glad that I get to spend will be spectacular! :) Now, to all my last year serving all of you and members, new and old, thank you making some more new and memo- for choosing to join us in our efforts rable Key Club moments. to better the community. Without It’s so weird to think that three you all, our impact would be little years ago I was a freshman. I don’t to none, so I encourage you to conknow how these past three years tinue serving and shining! Don’t forhave flown by so quickly, but I do get that we will still have events know that I am truly grateful for during the summer months and of joining Key Club as a freshman. course when we come back to Honestly, I started off liking Key school in the fall. Key Club is YEARClub because it gave me an excuse ROUND! to get out of the house more and So, anyways, cheers to the new feel more productive. Plus, I truly term and the journey ahead! wanted to help people in my community and Key Club provided me with the opportunities to do so. By Mai-Vy TruongI Historian Now, as a junior, this club has blessed me with leadership experi- HELLO FRIENDS!!! ences that I definitely will not take I'm super excited to be one of your for granted. It’s exciting yet terrify- historians this term! Key Club has aling to know that I have a responsi- ways been an amazing experience, bility to lead this club to a success- giving me so many opportunities to ful future, and I promise that I will relieve stress by volunteering with friends while making a difference in

the community at the same time. I love seeing everyone volunteering together and making peoples' lives that much better. By becoming one of your historians, it will give me a chance to give back to this amazing club and at the same time help make your experience as fun and memorable as it can be. I love taking pictures of everyone doing everything, even though sometimes those pictures might not be the best quality. I'll be sure to do my best to record all of your memories throughout this whole year, so at the end of the term you can look back and remember all the amazing times you had! Let’s make this term the best one yet, and LET’S HAVE A GREAT YEAR KEY-UTIES!!!

By Ricardo Alvarado I Historian

Although I’m proud to say that I’ve

been in Key Club since my freshman year, it is only until this month that I finally get to call myself a board member. I am so thrilled to begin working more with my other teammates; I know that together we’re going to make the 2017-2018 term delightful for our club members and make long lasting memories along the way. This whole experience, of knowing you are a leader within your club and being behind all the work that goes into keeping the club running, is what makes me drives me to continue dedicating myself to Key Club. It’s already more than I expected it to be and I feel more regret for not applying to board sooner. However, along with my excitement comes some nerves. I feel the pressure of owning up to my responsibilities and because I’m new to the board position I feel even more stress to get everything accomplished.

However I’m going to turn that pressure and use it as motivation to better myself and bring out the best in me.

I can’t wait for the dozens of memories and experiences this term is gonna bring!

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