Fall Festival

Hi everyone!! We held our annual Fall Festival on October 30, 2009. This year, we had a unique opportunity to partner with Harbor Church and Bayside Community Center! This gave us a wonderful chance to hold the event off campus and really engage ourselves in the Linda Vista community! We had a great time playing games, doing crafts and handing out candy to many eager children and their families! A piñata, abouncy house, facing painting, story telling and a cupcake walk were among the many fun activities that kept the children entertained! Many animals, transformers, superheroes and princesses made an appearance and most of them took home a prize from our costume contest!

I want to send out a HUGE thank-you to all of our USD volunteers and campus organizations that participated and sponsored activity booths for the kids. This event could not have happened without you!! I hope this event was as fun for all of you as it was for me. I can’t wait to see everyone again next year for this festive and fun filled event!!

A Day in the Life of a Cool Cluber

Mood: Excited

I stroll into UC 113 thrilled to be taking a break from my ridiculous class schedule and amped for some time well spent with some friends of mine. Chase comes running in yelling ‘Lets Go! Come on its sports week! We got to go!’ like he forgot to plan out today’s activity or something…but we all know it’s just his way of getting us excited. The drive there is too long but before you know it I’m already tagged out in an epic game of ‘Pacman’ where we essentially play tag but are restricted to the white lines of a basketball court. It’s a bit more low-key than kickball, until I realize I’ve got two TRACE students barreling down to get me out again. These guys are crazy! As I’m now tagged out first for the third game in a row, I can’t believe it is already time to go! Well luckily next week we are paper-maching so hopefully that won’t get too messy…oh wait.

“Cool Club is an organization on campus committed to bridging the gaps between USD students and those students of the TRACE program part of Mesa Community College. The TRACE students are college-aged students who suffer from an array of intellectual disabilities. Every Tuesday and Thursday, from 1:45pm-3:15pm, we partake in many different activities, ranging from sports and recreation to arts and crafts.”

Stop Child Trafficking Now Walk!

On Sunday, September 27, 2009 more then twenty USD students attended
the Stop Child Trafficking Now Walk at Mission Bay. The event was held
to raise awareness and funding for the cause. The grass root
organization helps retired elite military operatives to target the
demand side of trafficking. If you are interested in this cause please
visit the website at www.sctnow.org or contact Chelsea Simon at
chelie412@gmail.com.

2009 AIDS Walk

Hi everyone! Thank you SO much to all who volunteered to represent USD-CASA in the 2009 AIDS Walk! It was an awesomely inspiring event that took place on September 27^th in Balboa Park!! It was great to have the support of all the USD students who unselfishly got up early on Sunday morning to help bring awareness to HIV/AIDS. It’s your passion and commitment that makes events like this so successful! Also, a special thanks to Anjuli Wright for all of her hard work and dedication to the walk! We definitely would not have been so successful if it weren’t for her! Thank you again to everyone who participated! It was so much fun! Hope to see you out again next year!!

Alcala Bazaar 2009

Recruiting volunteers at the Alcala Bazaar!

Training 09-10

We just wanted to say thanks for your energy and enthusiasm at the leadership summit. We look forward to working with you all this year!

Hey ya'll!

For those of you who don't know me, which should be very few, my name is Chase Tushaus. I'm a senior Industrial and Systems Engineer and a Co-Director of Direct Service in the office with my sidekick Bryce Abraham. I'm one of the coordinators for Cool Club and am also one of the student leaders for the New Orleans Immersion trip. When I grow up I want to be a cowboy or Ronald Reagan. Along with these activities I also like spinning (in circles not on bikes), coloring, listening to Bruce Springsteen, and getting tickled.

This was my first summer in beautiful San Diego and I spent it as an intern at Hamilton Sundstrand in Kearny Mesa. I spent my weekends either down by the beach or pool hopping in La Jolla and the Del in Coronado. I also saw a few plays, mainly Godspell which was just terrific! (If anyone is ever interested in going to a musical or something hit me up!:)

Unfortunately, I also had shoulder surgery this summer, it might have been my 5th one and I might have done it trying to sit down but who's really counting right? I look forward to meeting you all soon...even if I have met you before 'cause I might have forgotten.

Peace, Love, and Bob Hope.