Political awareness. Support network. Food. These are the words that embody Club Filipina's activities. Check out last semester's activities, and make sure you're there (and not square!) for Spring 2004 Club Filipina Fun!

Our Illustrious Fall 2004:

Support Network

By simply hanging out with a bunch of women who share a common interest in Filipino culture, camaraderie is created. The first and foremost function of Club Filipina is to serve this bunch of women with a support network here in the Wellesley community. The organization also aims to create a second home away from home.

Besides simply hanging out, Club Filipina board members invites any Club Filipina member to join them in attending inter-collegiate meetings for Filipino student organizations in the Boston Area. Club Filipina is part of District 1 in FIND. Club Filipina members are encouraged to attend these meetings and meet other members of Filipino student organizations from Boston University, Bentley, Boston College, MIT, Harvard, Tufts, Northeastern and Brown. Here are some of their organization's websites.

• MIT
• Harvard
• Northeastern

Meetings are held every Sunday night at MIT.

Food

Last, but definitely not least, Club Filipina holds numerous activites that center around food. Spam night and Polvoron night are just among the few study breaks that Club Filipina has. Defined as a luncheon meat, spam is a staple "meat" dish in the Philippines and Filipino households. According to Karla Calinawan, Class of 2004, they go well with rice and coffee. If you want to find out more about spam (an integral part of the Club Filipina experience), feel free to surf http://www.spam.com.

Polvoron is a Filipino dessert. It tastes like shortcake, though much sweeter.

Besides spam and polvoron, Club Filipina members also love to cook adobo, the most popular chicken dish in the Philippines and lumpya, a fried egg-roll. To get these recipes, click here!

When the cooking prowess of Club Filipina members fail them, they take trip to Shuttlestop, a Filipino-American restuarant located in Boston.