Build A Bear @ Campus Center-- Come Early limited supplies

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UH Manoa Students,

Come this Friday (Feb. 18) to Campus Center to enjoy a night of fun for the kid in everyone!!!

We will be hosting three exciting events in Campus Center this Friday for you students to enjoy. Bring your family and friends!!!

* Create-A-Bear: 6-9 pm in the Campus Center Ballroom
$5 for large bears and $3 for small bears
All proceeds go to the American Red Cross.

* Bingo: 6:30 pm- 11 pm at Campus Center 3rd Floor (CC 308/309/310)

* Movie Night (Tangled): Two showings at 7 pm and 9 pm

25-cent Subways, Cookies, and Drinks

10-cent Popcorn

Brought to you by Campus Center Board,

See you there!!

Hey There Good Lookin'

           Hey there good lookin’? You are awesome and we’d like to celebrate that. In our media centric days it’s easy to get caught up on the latest fad and feel the pressure to fit into a certain type of body frame or image. This issue is not only happening in America, but all over the world. But don’t lose hope; the standards of beauty vary from place to place and time to time.

          Come to the Conference Room on Friday, February 25 to watch a marathon of Jessica Simpson’s The Price of Beauty to see her journey around the world to explore beauty.  The marathon will start at 5 and end at 10 PM.

          On February 26, 2-4 PM we will be having a continuation of the program. Two full hours of self-appreciating, feel good hang-out time at the Conference Room. It’s a totally informal session with super fun activities that will make you feel awesome about yourself. Refreshments and fondue served as well. Hope to see you there!

Just as Hawaii born Grammy Award winning singer Bruno Mars said, “You’re amazing just the way you are.”

The Front Door is Fixed!!!

You read that right. The FRONT Door is Fixed! After being broken for months Frear’s front door has been fixed. The Frear staff hopes that our door will remain functional through the rest of the year. Here are some tips to help keep our front door functional:

• Swipe your key card, wait for the beep and the sound of locks turning, THEN open the door. Easy, breezy, simple :)

• Keep the door closed and refrain from opening the door to the point that it hinges back. This actually breaks the door.

Hip-hop Abs! Gag-gift gone good

          A New Year, a new you! For many the beginning of the new year brings about aspirations and resolutions of losing weight. With this in mind, RAs Skyy and Sara held a Hip-hop Abs dancing program at the Conference Room. 

            The program had a great turn out! 20 residents came and had a blast burning calories with the upbeat video. Many of these residents actually take dance classes and are interested in more dance events here at Frear. Look out Frearians, more dance programs are on the way.

           

New Year's Around The World Continued

          Ever wondered why some New Years are celebrated in different months of the year? On February 3rd, Hala presented on the different calendars that countries around the world followed as well and the Chinese Zodiac. In addition, Yumi also made delicious Ozoni Soup, a Japanese soup traditionally made with mochi during the New Year. Finally, Hala also made her awesome lamb dumplings for residents to try out.

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Update on Roses: Community Council

    Due to a high demand of interest in the Chocolate roses Community Council has now closed the ordering process. Community council had a total of 126 orders for roses. Thank you and we appreciate you support!
If you would like to create a positive change in the building, please join Community Council. This is a group that is run by students. Though our ARD Christin advises the group, all ideas are student generated. Whether you are passionate about creating activities or want to make Frear a better place for residents, here is your place to shine.


Frear’s Community Council meets twice a month on Mondays at 6PM in the Game Room. Our next meeting is on March 7, 2011. See you there!

China Town Extravaganza

           On January 29th Residents had a chance to explore China Town at its Chinese New Year’s Celebration. From Food, martial arts demonstrations, charms and conveniently priced sale items this event was a very awesome cultural experience! It’s China Town at its most joyous celebration of the year.

Lion Dance Team doing their finale in the middle of the street after their martial arts demonstration.

           On this trip, Ame took a group out to China Town where they explored the various cultural sites. The group also had a chance to try out vegetarian Chinese food as well as exotic fruit smoothies.

Residents eating in Maunakea Market Place Square

“It was fun! It was a cultural explosion of color and I loved it.” 

Chatrice Barnes- Resident, Frear Hall

Eco-Art: Chinese Lanterns--New Year's Around the World

           Have you seen our awesome Coke Can Laterns in the lobby? This was made by cutting and folding Coke cans to create a round shape and then strung up. On January 28th from 3-5 RA MB set up a table at the lobby and taught residents how to make Chinese Lanterns out of Coke cans.

Wanna learn how? Check out this tutorial by ThreadBangers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcysOTdASFU&fmt=18

Valentine's Hershey Kiss Roses

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          Alas the month of love has again arrived and we can see it everywhere! (Wal-mart, Safeway and all the super markets actually have an entire shelf to let us know that Valentine’s Day is coming.) 

          For those of you interested, Community Council is making Hershey Kiss Roses for Valentine’s day and just like most of the best things in the world its FREE! All you need to do is fill out a form at the Front Desk and we will make sure to give your sweetie a chocolate rose in their mailbox.

    This offer is now over. Community Council hopes that you had a great Valentine’s Day!

New Year's Around the World

           Beside Valentine’s Day February is known for Chinese New Year’s. There are a variety of different cultures represented here in Frear. Besides our language Residential Learning Programs (RLPs) we have people from all over the world living in our amazing building.

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          As a tribute to the diversity of our population we are proud to present New Year’s Around The World, a multi- faceted celebration beginning on January 28 to February 3, 2011. Check out our display on the first floor by the bathrooms (available until February 28).

Hello World!

Welcome Frearians to our blog. This is where we begin our journey as a building.

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First thing’s first what exactly is a Frearian? That’s just anyone who lives in the building or those who feel like they have a special affinity to Frear Hall (aka most likely, it’s YOU!). The 2010-2011 RAs coined the term based on the movie 300 and it just stuck from there.

As residents in Frear, we often go about our ever-so-busy lives that sometimes we just use our dorms rooms as a place to crash and do homework.  However, Frear is our second home and plenty of things go on in the building. . From programs, to announcements and opportunities, we, the RAs of Frear Hall created this blog for you, our residents and our friends to keep up to date with what is going on in the building.

This is an open venue for you to comment on how you feel about the programs and the building in general so please DO NOT hesitate to comment and subscribe to us via RSS. Please keep comments PC (politically correct) and appropriate. Any offensive comments or comments in another language will be taken down. (No hard feelings.)