St. John's Department of Multicultural Affairs held various events from November 14-18 as part of the school's Diversity Week celebration. Included in these festivities was an afternoon of multicultural workshops held in the D'Angelo Center (DAC) coffee house area on Tuesday, November 15. I arrived to find this event packed with students participating in culture-oriented activities that included learning to write Chinese calligraphy, designing masks, making friendship bracelets, and purchasing jewelry made of fair trade Ugandan 'Beads for Life,' which had its own table set up there. Students were also busy working to achieve the goal of folding a thousand paper cranes, which Associate Director of St. John's Multicultural Affairs program Rosa C. Yen explained to me signifies a special prayer in Japanese culture. When finished, these paper cranes were hung up on the walls of the DAC third floor coffee house area, and were a beautiful reminder of the wonderful and tremendous diversity that exists in the student body of St. John's (which I am so glad to be a part of).
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Me with student Suya Chen, who kindly guided me in making my purple paper crane, which I am holding in the photo |
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| A wall of paper cranes in the D'Angelo Center |
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