2nd Annual Veggie Fiesta Update: Tales of the City Premiere Gala Silent Auction

Dear Friends,

The May 14th Veggie Fiesta is only a week away and our student Culinary Team is getting more excited by the day.  Many thanks to our wonderful sponsors and donors who provided an amazing assortment of raffle prizes.  Even more exciting, we just received a gift from one of our most generous benefactors to boost the Fiesta’s fundraising goal.  We have been given 5 tickets to Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City Opening Night Gala!  ACT’s premiere production has been much anticipated and the gala event has been sold out for months.  These tickets will be made available through a silent auction (see details below).  Forward this email to anyone you know who is a Tales fan and help us inspire future food leaders!

See you at the Fiesta, Susie White, Director

Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City Opening Night Gala – June 1, 2011

This sold out gala is expected to be THE event of the San Francisco season! Beginning with a black tie cocktail reception and gala dinner by McCalls Catering in a tented Union Square (designed by Stanlee Gatti), the event continues with the world premiere production at the American Conservatory Theater, followed by a disco after party with the cast at Ruby Skye nightclub.  Only 5 tickets available.  Each ticket is valued at $1,250 and will be auctioned individually.  Start bidding now!

Veggie Fiesta Raffle Prizes Announced!

MANY THANKS TO OUR GENEROUS RAFFLE CONTRIBUTORS!

Anusuya’s Youth Voice – No 4

Maybe a fun Blogpost?

As a teenagers life goes on, we don’t realize how many qualities we have in us. We’re still at a stage where we don’t even know what really makes us happy, sad, interested, or even excited even to want to finish it. In my high school career, I have noticed that there is a lot of exploring involved, like meeting new people, finding your true self, what you like, hate, et cetera. Even though we are judged by our peers about what we do, our deep rooted values and our personality are what makes us get through the rest of our life. I have been writing a lot about the class and what it’s like to be in a “company”, but this time I wanted to bring in a personal touch to the CEO’s corner and give an insight of how I got involved in Nextcourse and came here.

It wasn’t easy moving from a different country and landing up freshmen year here in San Francisco, and in a whole different schooling system. It’s a grueling process of assimilating and getting with the flow of things. We have mood swings and tantrums due to the fact that pressure of uncertainty hits us. It’s not fun being a teenager who keeps travelling like me, because you don’t make a lot of close friends, but the connections you make with people are very valuable. It’s sometimes frustrating to be a teenager too, for me it was when I didn’t know what I loved to do. I remember when I would do my homework and after didn’t know what to do besides facebook and texting my friends. It was like a soul -searching process. What do I like to do? What makes me happy? It wasn’t until my junior year in high school I realized that writing makes me happy. It was a feeling of happiness and fulfillment when I write due to the fact that it comes straight from my heart.  But it’s interesting to see when adults say that teenagers don’t care, are to self- centered, and selfish to know what’s up with the world. I want to tell those adults that try discovering what you love, have the pressure of growing up, and changing backgrounds. It’s not that we don’t care, it’s more like we have to pay attention to what we need and focus in on that time.

See earlier posts:

No 1, No 2, No 3

Anusuya’s Youth Voice – No 3

What happens in the class besides the snack product?

Welcome back to an all new episode of the Nextcourse “Teens on greens” blog center, with your host, Ms. Anusuya Mukherjee (aka the CEO in training). Ah, imaginations, one can only imagine such ideas. Welcome back readers; hope you have enjoyed a teenager’s insightfulness on food and her witty behavior in writing. So far at school, I am on my spring break and enjoying the fact that I have only 2 months left before I graduate, exciting!!! My second pieces of writings will be published in 2 months time also, under the anthology by Writerscorp. I have also gotten over my senioritis, so thank you for asking.

Since I write about what’s happening in the class, in this blog post I wanted to focus on the “Eat Ur Veggies” class we had this Wednesday. Personally, I don’t like cooking, so in these classes I focus on how the food is being made. It’s interesting to see how food brings people together. The class that comes for the training is learning English as a second language. My “employees” all know a second language besides English. I’ve known that in the business world it is very important that your company is more approachable to different communities. I’m not a business person and I think that the business world is too complicated for me, give me an experience and I’ll write about it- that seems like a better way to describe what I am doing. The students enjoyed every bit of the class and they also asked what certain things are called in their language.   The class seemed to enjoy every part of the process and so did I.

2nd Annual Veggie Fiesta – May 14th

SAVE THE DATE!!