<div dir="ltr">Dear friends, <div><br></div><div>Thanks for coming out to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Zambian's independence yesterday; it was indeed a beautiful occasion.</div><div><br></div><div>Don't forget bowling today at 6:00 pm. We will all convene on the 3rd floor of the library, Friends of the library at 5:45pm, and then head out at 6pm. </div><div><br></div><div>Please bring at least $5 along, as bowling costs $4.25/head.</div><div><br></div><div>Furthermore, we have come halfway through the semester and this is a good time to talk about ASU in terms of our progress so far, what needs to be changed and what we want to see happen. </div><div><br></div><div>This is also the time for bookkeeping and discussing event ideas for next semester. </div><div><br></div><div>More exciting is the second half of the meeting where we will have Susan Mongalla, a fellow colleague, talk to us about her experience as a young woman growing up in South Sudan. </div><div><br></div><div>Below is a comment Susan Mongalla made in response to the story in this link <a href="http://bit.ly/1ww4gI7">http://bit.ly/1ww4gI7</a> </div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px"> "The more we open up and talk about the hardship that we, as South Sudanese young women went through, the more the whole world will be able to understand and create betters ways of helping us overcome this tragedy."</span><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px">Hope to see you all today.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'lucida grande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19.3199996948242px">Tolu. A. </span></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div>-- <br>African Student Union<br>Ohio University<br><a href="mailto:asu.ohio@gmail.com" target="_blank">asu.ohio@gmail.com</a>
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