Bwuaha, I went and deleted two old posts so that this wouldn’t be my 100th post because I have nothing planned, no time to do anything, and I missed blogging too much. Wee!

Anyways, on Saturday I attended MAUVSA’s 3rd Annual Retreat which was conveniently hosted at George Mason. Its basically an organization that unites the Vietnamese Student Associations of George Mason University, George Washington University, Georgetown University, James Madison University, University of Maryland – College Park, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. It was super duper fun & I wish I didn’t have to work so I could’ve gone to the uNAVSA conference earlier this month and maybe the MAUVSA summit next month. I also wish I wasn’t sick so that I could’ve enjoyed Saturday better and not refrain myself from meeting people cause I couldn’t stop coughing/sniffing.

My name tag. Colored circles correspond to the workshop we are go to.

My partner in crime. We didn’t have any workshops together D:

All of the schools, represent.

VCU has got major VSA pride (:

All of MAUVSA

George Mason University, cause that’s the only school I care enough about to show (: Can you spot me? I’m behind my brother.

It was pretty fun. The opening ceremony consisted of a huge icebreaker. Basically on the back of our name tag was an animal and we had to make that noise to get grouped with the rest of our kind. I was a lion so I rawred myself over my my group mates. Phana got a giraffe, and to this day I still do not know what sound giraffes make. After that, within our group we had to do a scavenger hunt where we brought random things that they called out up to stage. Someone under five feet, a pen, an iPhone, a condom, a tampon (which NO group had), and the like. The winning team (which wasn’t us we didn’t have a condom, stupid boys!) then had to go on stage and play the alphabet game until there’s only one standing. The alphabet game is basically you go between two people and say statements that do not have to relate to each other starting with the next letter in the alphabet. i.e. Are you okay, But you smell bad and so on.

The rest of the day was workshops, free banh mi, more workshops, and a closing ceremony. There was an after party but I was way too sick to go and try to fend off creepers. I met a total of three people whom I added on facebook. I really hope I didn’t give off the “btchy stuck-up” vibe because I didn’t want to talk to anyone since I didn’t want to cough in their face. A lot of people kept on complimenting my camera cause apparently its really cute, (I agree n_n). And also everyone kept on asking me if I was Nam’s little sister. Sigh! It’s really hard to not be compared to him if he’s on the microphone, on stage, pointing at me going, “THAT’S MY LITTLE SISTER. STAY AWAY FROM HER. BTW, CALL HER NAM’S LITTLE SISTER!” ;____;

Stereotypes workshop, where we talk about how Asian people are bad drivers and have small packages.

The icebreaker workshop. They’re playing the staring game. You can blink but you can’t take your eyes off of each other & you can’t laugh.

Also part of the icebreaker workshop, musical chairs!

Team building workshop led by these facilitators. We had to get through the “Spider Web of Death” without going through the same hole twice and no touching of the web as a team.

Rawr, spider gonna eat chu (:<

BTW, do you not get enough of Mai action on this blog alone? I started a tumblr for all the random things that happen in my life that I feel like I need to write down that are too long for tweets but too short for a blog post.