Message from hdao

[Anonymous]

This reading gave me some great ideas on some activities to do with a club that my students and I are thinking about starting this year to develop their appreciation and knowledge of the various cultures around Alhambra. Many of my students feel like they are living in a foreign country at times, which can be both good and bad. Good in that they are being exposed to other ways of living, but bad because of the sense of the defensiveness that comes about from the feeling of alienation. They never go into the restaurants or stores (unless it's a Korean own liquor store) and they feel cut off the an entire segment of their own community. I want to link to what they already experience (i.e. cup noodles) as a spring board into a deeper transformative cultural experience.