August 8th, 2009
-By Adhithya Rajakumar

For a long time, Subramaniya Bharathi shaaka (Bellevue, WA) was making plans for a Kishor get-together. After much thought, the decision was made: a hike in Cougar Mountain. The proposal was met with much rejoice from the Kishor, who had loved the outcome of their previous get-together—a hike at Rattlesnake Ledge.
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So finally we made it to StoneGardens. We were all excited to start climbing but it took some getting used to wearing really tight shoes. After putting on the shoes and the harness we climbed the walls belayed by the trainers from the gym. Man, what looks so easy in videos can be super tiring. Your forearms get pumped in no time. Climbing is a great workout, no doubt about that. We were a group of 12 and all of us got try different routes a number of times. Some of us tried our luck in the bouldering section too. Feels weird to hang from the ceiling, not to mention the strength and stamina required. In short, all had a great time and we look forward to go there again.

This year, the University of Washington chapter introduced HY Socials, with the ice-skating event in Jan 2009. And, it was a lot of fun!

This time around, they plan to have a break-dancing session from Jeromeskee. This would be a introduction to break dancing and you don’t need to worry if you haven’t break-danced (or even danced at all) before. Kids are highly encouraged to attend cause it will be a lot of fun. It’s a beginner level class but it will be challenging for sure!

When - March 25, Wednesday - 7:45pm to 8:45pm
Where - Velocity Dance Center, 915 East Pine Street, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98122
How much? $10 per person

Our man, Jeromeskee has participated successfully in several b-boy titles throughout the world and has worked with and taught at many corporations and universities and holds workshop classes in Seattle every Wednesday to teach break-dance.

The Facebook page for the event can be found here.

Let us know if you need or can provide car pools.

Holi - the Indian festival of colors. The sheer name of this festival brings into mind a splash of colurs. So, when Hindu YUVA, UW decided to organize Holi celebrations for the first time, it had to be special. A flood of colors that Seattle’s grey skies has never experienced. An addition to the American red, blue and white. An event full of enthusiasm, joy, wonderful colors and some delicious food. Can you expect anything more? Oh yes you can. The event was organized at the Golden Gardens beach in Seattle. We decided to hold our weekly gathering - shakha at the beach too. We played some traditional Indian games like kabaddi and kho-kho. Playing these games on the beach sand made them all the more fun. We decided to light up some real holi fire near the beach. The lighting up of the holi fire turned out to be a good idea given the cold seattle weather. 
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