HoosTalking

Club Description

The organization was formed in December, 2016. The current president founded an online platform to help both herself and other students to express their anxieties and pressure through this anonymous platform. She made a Google Form to collect students’ responses and post them on Wechat every week. Soon it became popular among certain student groups and some students came together to found this organization as it is now. Weekly Wechat push has become a regular event for our organization. After the organization was created, our organization also sought for other ways that engage Chinese students to share their daily life and facilitate a sense of belonging at UVA. For instance, some students would make cooking tutorials videos for us. Pets videos are popular in our Wechat push as well. In order to provide those who are interested in pets more information about keeping a pet, we make videos of the pets from Chinese students. These videos are all distributed online via the Wechat. Apart from video-featured columns, our organization decided to initiate discussions of common social issues among students to help relieve stresses and enlighten them. The topics of discussions we have initiated include depression and eating disorder. By collecting and posting anonymous response from students who have experienced similar issues, we tried to let other people be more aware of the issue and keep an eye on themselves and people around them.