Amare*, a participant and immigrant youth from Ethiopia in our Silver Spring program, was elected as the Fall 2009 President. Check out what he has to say about our Silver Spring program below!
October 22, 2009: Thursday, October 22, we had our sixth meeting. At first we ate pizza and drank soda. Then we took a survey about what we want the most out of the Civic Education Program and where we want to go for D.C. Later we had a guest speaker Mr. Gustavo Gutierrez who was introduced to us by myself, the President. Mr. Gutierrez is a public defender and represented people who cannot afford to pay for a lawyer, but he gets pay from the government. He spoke to us about his childhood experience and educational background. When he was teenager like us he made bad choices. So he advised us to not do the same thing and take the right the right path before it's too late.
October 27, 2009: Tuesday, October 27, As usual we ate pizza and drank soda. We played a game. We didn't actually know the name of the game but we all liked it and got to learn about each other. After the game, we had a guest speakerMr. Jose Dominguez. He mainly talked to us about human needs. Afterwards, we cleaned up the room and left.
October 29, 2009: We ate pizza and drank soda. We discussed about current events. We played jeopardy and the topics for jeapardy were Montgomery County, Congress, Washington DC, College and Chris Van Hollen. Also, we leanred about Chris Van Hollen (our representative).
