This summer has been a great experience. I got a job at A.M.A. through step up.  The first week we did group activities so we could get to know each other, like people scavenger hunts, community maps, taking pictures.  After that the next week I think we started working on Obesity & Body Image, we did research and were told to make fact-sheets and postcards. While doing research I actually learned more about obesity and body image that I never knew about. I didn’t know of all the diseases you could get from Obesity and other stuff. Matter Of Fact I think I learned a lot of things from each of the topics. We also did brochures, postcards, and power points on different topics to such as Alcohol Prevention, HIV/STD,tobacco prevention,  Love, Beauty. I wasn’t here for alcohol Prevention but so I don’t know much about that but I learned, new ways you can protect yourself from HIV, expensive drugs you can take if you have HIV, and other stuff from Tobacco prevention and Love and Beauty. My favorite thing was the field trips the target field field trips were really fun. I was really looking forward to the canoe trip but didn’t get to go because it thunder stormed so we went to see a move but that was fun too. Overall I had a great summer with A.M.A. thank you !

we did topic on obessed we did topic on body images we did topic hiv and we did alcohol,tobacco,love, beauty,community maps,target field.movies and canoeing

My work experience this summer with the AMA for the last 9 week it was fun.I learn 9 thing that i never know before and it was a great experience that I did so far.

Community Map:This is the first thing that we did during our first week of school and how we could help the community around the area where we live and where they live.It can help us if we are lost somewhere around there.A map is a really important thing that people they should know because when people they get lost they will know how to use a map.It help the other people to get what happening there when they don’t live near the community.

Obesity & Body Image:When I learn about the Obesity & Body Image it tell me how people they should loss weight when they are to Obese and tried to not eat so much.Obesity can sometime not helping you too.You don’t want your body to Obese then you got to help yourself to keep your body not to over weight it.Obesity is a really important thing that people they do not want to have.

Alcohol:When people they starting drinking alcohol they sometime can’t handle themselves because they maybe drink over the limit that they needed.Alcohol is kind of dangerous for people to drink to because if you drink to many alcohol then you can be over obese too.Alcohol is for people that are over 21 year old..But now day many people around the world they mostly drink Alcohol.Alcohol can make your life up side now too.

Tobaccoo & Drug: Tobacco and drug they sometime can’t not be a useful for your body because they are bad.Tobaccoo can give you bad breath when you do to much Tobacco and also the same with the Drug.If you do to much of these Tobaccoo and Drug your life with be a short life and not a long life for you.Tobacco and Drug can affect you in many ways.It can affect your throat which you can’t talk that loud.

Love & Relationship: Love & Relationship they can come in many way because their different situation that many people they have.A healthy relationship is a thing that make people happy.Many people they have their own love that they give to other people.It how people trust each other and what they do to make people happy.Love is a really important thing that many people have in their life.Many people they are in love because they make connections and they communicating with each other.

HIV/AIDS/STDs: When people they about to do sex with other people they should get a test out if they have any HIV/AIDS/STD.Because you don’t know if they have any of those thing.It really important if people they use condon when they have sex with a male/women.It really important that people they use these because they don’t want to get affect by other people that are having it.

Beauty:Everyone around the world they have their own perception of their beauty.For some women they maybe sometime be pill if they don’t put on make-up on and for some women they are natural beauty and they don’t need make-up.Beauty can be in different color and sometime of the race of people.

Canoe Trip/Movie: When we got to the Canoe place we was about to canoe but it rain so the supervisor or the people at north park they decide to take us to go and watch a move at SouthDale since it rain so hard that we can’t canoe.They took us and we went and watch the ZooKeeper and it was a fun movie that I watch.The movie was like 2 hour long.

the main topic of the week was domestic viovlence but we broke it down into to six topics. the six toopics are love, healthy ,relationship,domostic violonce,feminnism,men,power and control

I worked this summer as most of you should know. For about 3 or 2 weeks i was a manager of three other peers, Molly, Kong and Steven. We did about two projects together. Personal Style & Healthy Relationships. We also did post cards and these are our postcards we did & some other ones i did in the past.

Yeah* i lost some of them but, ANY ways… This summer was a good summer, i made money, and worked everyday except on the weekends. I also met new people and people at my school that i didn’t even know of.

My co-workers and i went to different places we went t the twins Stadium, that was a cool experience for me because i never been there before and that was my first time, we had free food and went to the seats where i could never AFFORD to sit in.

We also had a canoe trip but on the day the girls went it was raining so the girls had to go watch a movie instead. We watched Zoo Keeper, it was good… Could of been better.

& now we are going on a plane trip. We’re not going any where we are just gonna see how it is. The place is all the way past Bloomington, but i can’t wait for it because i never been on a plane before.

I learned a lot this summer. It felt like Health Class more than Work. I learned more about Tobacco use, and that it gives you a lot of diseases that cant be helped some times. Alcohol use i learned that every does it at least once Also that it kills brain cells and gives you kidney problems. Obesity was another one, i found out that a lot of younger kids are obese because of eating too much junk food and watching TV all day. We also talked about SEX EDUCATION. That was VERY interesting, because i learned about all these STD, HIV and AIDS diseases. The pictures we saw in class at North were DISTURBING ! We learned and talked about a lot of others such as LOVE, Beauty and ETC.

My experience was good at AMA, i liked the people i met and my supervisors. BUT MOSTLY THE MONEY I MADE

-Bao Yang

The celebration yesterday was really nice. I had a lot of fun seeing the mayor dance and seeing people Celebrate. I forgot Sign in and so I didn’t receive my certificate. The celebration made me proud I joined the Step-Up program this year and made me want to come back next year. The presentation was really nice and I had a lot of fun.

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This summer, working with Asian Media Access, we went through a lot of topics our communities are struggling with. We took pictures, made postcards and preventions, powerpoints and brochures. I learned more in-depth within the topics through our researches and projects.

Community Maps:

We started off the summer making community maps of the North Mpls neighborhood. It made us understand our surroundings and the community better as a whole. And it lead to our topics as the community’s concerns and problems.

Obesity & Body image:

Obesity is becoming a nation-wide concern. Not a lot of people are eating healthy and getting enough exercise they need. Obesity comes alongside body image because body image is influenced by the media. Here, people might not be eating ENOUGH because they want to be skinny and not labeled fat.

Alcohol prevention:

Even though the legal age to drink is 21, there are more under-age drinking. Many of it is influenced through peer pressure and also culture/traditions. The culture and traditions very well with my life because of the way my people celebrate and do the traditions.

Tobacco/Drug prevention:

Drugs and tobacco use are also influenced mainly through peer pressure. Many might think tobacco use is not as bad as drugs because of the way society thinks or runs, but they are both still bad.

HIV/AIDS/STD prevention:

We had many guest speakers who came in to talk to us about STDs and HIV/AIDS. There are a lot more I didn’t know and a lot more I learned. We also learned safe sex along with birth controls and condoms. This kind of comes along with a topic we didn’t discuss too much of; teen pregnancy. With the knowledge we learned through this, we could prevent teen pregnancy and further more, the spread of STDs and HIV/AIDS.

Beauty:

I think beauty was a big concern because it also comes along with body image. Everyone has their own styles, vision and perception of beauty. A lot of what people think of beauty is also influenced by the media, peers and culture. The topics we presented were personal styles, wedding clothes, and body art of tattoos.

Love & Relationships:

This topic kind of ties the knot of all the topics and bring them all in. It fits how body image comes in play, alcohol/tobacco/drugs can come into use, and how STDs play a big role in this. It can also lead to teen pregnancy. We discussed the cycle of domestic violence and how a healthy relationship should be. Many main roles we said lead to healthy relationships includes respecting each other and no pressure.

All of the topics we researched and did projects on had a common ground. They are mainly influenced through media and peers sometimes culture and traditions. But throughout the summer, i learned many preventions and a better understanding and vision of them.

Field trips:

Target Field Tour: We took a tour throughout the whole Target Field and had some lunch in one of the public rooms. Then we had a chance to talk to the Vice President of Marketing and asked him questions.

Canoe trip FAIL – Movies: We went to watch “Zookeeper” with the North Commons when the weather turned bad on us.

Young Eagles Flight: Coming up this Saturday, August 20th !