UChicago PASA

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Join PASA for the first meeting of the year on Wednesday Oct. 17 from 8:30-9:30pm in Harper 151!

Officers 2012-2013

Announcing the PASA Officers for 2012-2013!

• President - Ola McLees
• Vice-President - Ania Bokun
• Secretary - Mark Koziel
• Treasurer - Stephanie Oehrlein
• Social Outreach - Konrad Kubicki
• Publicity - Ula Kulpa & Dorothy Olszewski

Sad news

I mean, not really, but still. Our VP, Asia Sobiech… is in Greece. Having an awesome time. But, she’s not here. With us. The party has to go on. Somehow…

Review of past quarter

No i co tam, ludzie?  We’ve been extremely busy this past quarter. The last you heard from us was from the potluck. Well, guess what? We had ANOTHER potluck. Even better than the first one. Then, we celebrated the International Food Festival, and that was great fun. Lots of people asked about how we differ from the Germans. What! How dare they. We later had a summer opportunities panel with the European Student Association (ESA), International Student Association (ISA), CEERES, and others. Here is the official announcement: Are you studying pre-law, pre-med, history, politics, academia, or business? Are you interested in Eastern European culture, do you speak Polish, Czech, Slovakian, or even Spanish, French or German? Are you going to be hungry on Thursday night? 

If you answered yes to any of these questions, we have an event for you!

Come join us at the IHOUSE for our summer opportunities panel. Representatives looking for student interns both in the summer and now from COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC (http://www.communityhealth.org/), POLISH AMERICAN MUSEUM (http://www.polishmuseumofamerica.org/ — who plan to offer an internship ESPECIALLY FOR UCHICAGO STUDENTS!), THE SLAVIC DEPARTMENT will be there. We are eager to help you find a job where you can use your foreign language skills or any EASTERN EUROPEAN skills. 

FREE DINNER WILL BE PROVIDED FROM PIZZA CAPRI.

Here is the official list of speakers:

Julita Siegel - Polish Museum
Consul Robert Rusiecki - Polish Consulate in Chicago
Kelly Tondini- Community Health Clinic
Bozena McLees - Polish Language learning opportunities, from Loyola
Esther Peters - Czech Language learning opportunities
Rachel Ward - CAPS
Dana Immertreu - CEERES
Bryan Benavides - VP of Marketing for BayRu LLC

We also celebrated Paczki Day, or Tlusty Czwartek. We had 200 paczki, and they were gone within an hour! DELICIOUS!

Next quarter we will have Kielbasa on the Quad, a Potluck, a study break, re-elections, and the CEERES Study Break. Looking forward to seeing you!

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That’s Asia, Dan, Ania, and Ania. From the potluck. Which was awesome. Sorry for the lack of updates recently! We’ve all been dying from preparations for POST. The potluck went swell and we had visitors from UIC, Loyola, Northwestern, and the Intercollegiate Counsel. We then attended the International Food Festival, and were the last ones standing with food. Probably because Polish food is so cheap. But, most likely not. Please see facebook for pictures! We don’t want to post them all here, and in this way, it will encourage you to join our group! We are planning some exciting events. First off, the Chicagoland PASAs are planning on getting together and preparing some sort of panel/shadowing program for different careers for Polish students. This will likely occur in April. But, before then, our PASA, that’s right, OUR PASA, will be having a panel for summer opportunities, partnering with ESA (European Student Association), CEERES, ISA (International Student Association), and Russian Club. Exciting! BUT BEFORE THEN — TLUSTY CZWARTEK! Next week! PIEROGIS GALORE!

Come join us next Thursday for some delicious eats in Bartlett Lounge from 5-7pm!

…and a new quarter begins

HOW WILDLY SUCCESSFUL WAS WIGILIA? VERY. VERY MUCH INDEED. Here is a link to our pictures: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2734052917103.2160776.1430709607&type=3

Anyway, question.

Did you miss us while scarfing down your BIG PIEROGI during wigilia? Us too! Anyhow, let’s start this quarter and year off with some good ole’ polish time. Meet us in Asia’s apartment. We will have snacks and a variety of drinks to taste and consider. We will also let you all know about all the wonderfully free events we will be hosting this year, including a very serious panel to talk about summer opportunities for Slavic/Easter European students and for those interested in Slavic/Easter European cultures. So come join us! We would also like to extend our welcome to all of our freshmen friends! Hello there! You’re so cute! Please come!

So, once again, we are doing our potluck. This time, it will be even bigger and better. Just look above.

Wigilia is next!

10th week, Wednesday, November 30th! 

SOUTH LOUNGE 8:30pm! 12 course meal including:

The menu will look something like this:

mushroom soup, 
boiled potatoes (kartofle), 
pickled herring (sledzie), 
fried fish, 
pierogi, 
beans and sauerkraut (groch i kapusta), 
a dried fruit compote, 
babka, oplatek, 
assorted pastries, 
nuts and candies

Jolly Inn trip = success

Dan’s van drove us all the way to the Jolly Inn. Super fun!

 Dan was so happy with the food! a little fight for the front seat of the van!

6th week event!

HEY EVERYONE!
Our event is set! We are going to the Polish restaurant, Jolly Inn:http://www.jollyinn.com/restaurant_eng.asp . This will be a subsidized trip, and we will most likely leave campus together, in Danusz Stanek’s van, but depending on the amount of people going, we can arrange for other transportation as well. THIS EVENT WILL HAPPEN NEXT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4th, at around 6 or 7 pm. They have good polish beer. Just saying.