Recruiting on April 29

Today's recruitment was the most successful! We had an interested member, Shih-Hao, even come to help recruit! A lot of interest people stopped by our booth and asked about Best Buddies and as many as ten people signed up! Many of them already knew about Best Buddies because they had one at their high school. We even recruited an incoming student who was the President of Best Buddies at her high school!

Recruitment II 4-22-06

Discovery Recruitment III

Date: Saturday, April 29

Time: 9 am to 11 am

Where: Rivera Library Mall Near the Arches

Active Members of March!

Active Members of March

No associate member was picked for March.

College buddies of March are Ariel Bohr and Andrew Pham!

College Buddy: Ariel Bohr

Buddy: Jade Porter

Ariel has been a member of Best Buddies since the beginning of the school year! She is a sweet young lady who has attended many events this year such as the November Ice Cream Social, the January Dance, the Christmas Party, and various meetings. She has spent time with her buddy Jade shopping in Downtown Riverside, visiting her buddy at Ability Counts, and had other one to one outings. You are Jade's first committed buddy! Thank you for everything, especially for your patience!

Jade Porter has been very active! Jade has been to the Honors Community Service Recruitment in Summer of 2005, the Spaghetti Factory Matching Social, the "Love, Inc" TV Taping, the Halloween Party, the Christmas Party, the January Dance, the Valentine's Party, and much more! Jade also participated in the See's Candy Sale Fundraiser. Her mother turned in a nomination for the "Outstanding Student Organization" of the year for UCR! Her mother has also helped us provide rides. Great job Jade and thank you Mrs. Porter!

College Buddy: Andrew Pham

Buddy: Kevin O'Donnell

Andrew has also been very active since the beginning of the year! He has watched Harry Potter, played video games, ate dinner with Kevin, and much more! Andrew has attended the Spaghetti Factory Matching Social, the Ability Awareness Training, both TV Tapings, the Ice Cream Social, and more! He also raised $40 for the March Bash! Kevin greatly appreciates your friendship. You have made Kevin's first year at Project TEAM exciting and fun!

Kevin has been very active too! He's been to the Spaghetti Factory Matching Social, the November Ice Cream Social, the Halloween Party, the Christmas Party, the Valentine's Party, and other events. He also helped Project TEAM win during the Special Olympics Soccer Game in March! Thank you Kevin!

Discovery Day Recruitment Recap

Hey all!

Yesterday, Anna, Thi, and I set up a booth at the Discovery Day for incoming freshman. Many high school seniors and their parents learned about Best Buddies and our mission to enhance the lives of people with intellectual disabilities. Many seemed interested and hopefully they will be joining us next year! Though many hadn't heard of Best Buddies, we also found people that were very familiar with Best Buddies. Many high schools have very successful and active chapters. Some of the high school seniors we met were part of Best Buddies one on one friendships at their high schools. We learned that the Inland Empire is a strong region for Best Buddies! SO BE PROUD!

Thanks to Karisma Kothari for making our sweeeet flyers... and to Christopher Tran and my friend Dee for helping me make our new display board!

- Kevin

Discovery Day Recruitment I

Thank you Thi Mai, Anna Nguyen, and Kevin Izquierdo for recruiting!

Time With My Buddy And Shopping On Campus

Did anyone see all the neat stuff that our sponsored vendor was selling? You guys should really go check it out because there was a lot of good stuff at amazing prices. I bought a bunch of stuff since they are supporting our club, so we should support them in some way as well.

Well..I digress. Yesterday I went to go hang out with my buddy Trent and had a lot of fun. First he was really excited to show me his new DVD which was Winnie the Pooh sing-a-long. And who doesn't love pooh bear? I got a little too into singing with Pooh bear and thats when Trent started laughing at me...haha. After that we watched another one of his favorite videos called the wiggles. I had heard of The Wiggles before but never knew anything about them. For all I knew it was a popular childrens show. I was thinking it would be a cartoon but to my surprise it was not. It was 4 grown men dancing around...Haha quite an experience. We both tried to do the wiggle dance and had a decent amount of success. Here is a short video that you can play at home if you're curious to know who they are.

Ps: On our next big group event I will try making a video and posting it up here. It would be so much more interactive. Wish me luck!

The First Meeting of The Spring Quarter

Hi Everyone!
Hope everyone enjoyed their much needed spring break! Well, I just wanted to comment on the meeting we had last night; it was a wonderful turn out ! The room was packed with lots of new faces and there was pizza! Yum!

Just to recap on what happened during the meeting:
We talked about the upcoming event such as the possible pool party, the banquet, and the nomination for the best club.

Officers, keep up the wonderful job! :)

Tonight's Meeting

I truly think that tonight's meeting was the best! We had pizza and gifts to give to people. We voted on a lot of events and the outcome was great. I saw so many new faces!

Inland Empire Bash!

The Inland Empire Bash was held at the Edward's Mansion from 7-10pm on Friday, March 31st. Thank you Becky, Kieu, Kevin, Anna, and Hugo for coming! We ate Mexican food, chatted, and some of us danced that night! It was great exploring the mansion and the chapel there.

March 31st Special Olympics at California School of the Deaf

During the last day of school before Spring Break started for the buddies, many of them played Special Olympic soccer against many high schools such as Arlington and California School of the Deaf. The buddies at Project Team were very talented, winning five games! Some of the most active and athletic players included Kevin O'Donnell and Jason Albert, who helped Project TEAM immensely! Trent's father was there filming the event while Kevin's father cheered the buddies on. At the end of the event, all the buddies received a Special Olympics Medal, including the two members at UCR who came, Stephanie Do and Anna Nguyen. Congrats buddies and good luck on your next tournament, the Softball Special Olympics on May 19, 2006!

Hey everyone!
How was your spring break? I just want to drop a few words to say "hello!." I also want to ask if your ucr email account is messed up. All my emails from the past to current have been lost, and I did not receive any new emails. Please let me know if you have the same problem.
Always,Thi