Eighth Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, is a place the Chinese community built with their own hands. Everyone put forth their effort, culture, traditions and virtues to build our own Chinese paradise in this alien land. In 2009, when I immigrated to New York, Eighth Avenue was mostly residences and we could only find one restaurant, located several blocks away. However, over the past five years, I became a tiny ant in this whole population of 87,400 Chinese people who live on Eighth Avenue now.

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This past summer marked the 4th annual class of the ACES Summer Institute Program at St. Joseph’s College on the Brooklyn Campus. Compared to last summer, the number of participants for this term increased by half. Any students entering their sophomore or junior year were welcome to apply to the program. The program consisted of students from 6 high schools. 

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Something that I really loved was what happened before the play was about to start. The lights slowly started to dim; it was preparing the audience for the play. It was a nice touch of the theater. Thanks, theater! A few minutes past 7:30, the play started. The opening scene began with Shelley, portrayed by Quincy Tyler Bernstine, praying to a microwave.

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Last summer I went back to China. I still remember how excited I was. I had all the beautiful images in my head: hanging out with friends, being drunk at night and singing songs to get home, talking to friends about funny things, doing what we used to do, and going to travel someplace new together. I finally arrived at the airport in China in the afternoon. “Already four years,” I said to myself. I called a taxi to get home. On the way home, I watched the scenery roll by the cab window. It didn’t change a lot, and I could still remember what was there.

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The play itself is reflective of Peter Brook’s vision of theatre. Firstly, it shows Brook as a director committed to experimental theatre. Rejection of the traditional story-telling plot structure and conventional stage setting creates an emphasis on dialogue. Throughout the performance the actors reach out to the members of the audience, interact with them and strive to make them a part of the theatrical story-telling process.

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In many theaters, when the lights turn off, the EXIT lights usually stay on, but the whole room was pitch black. No sounds were heard, no more whispers, not even heavy breathing. It almost felt as if I had fallen into a deep sleep but my mind was still awake and ready to process whatever was coming next.

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For me, mostly, creative writing has been a private affair. I’ve always written, but rarely have I shared my work. It took over two years of marriage to even permit my husband to get a peek at poetry (when I finally did he read them on the subway and missed so many stops that I had to pick him up with our car).

                                                                                                                       —Catherine Meehan

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Towards mid-July we finally decided it was time for us to leave our family and begin traveling by ourselves. We packed our duffle bags and hit the road. Since Albania is mostly known for transportation with vans (not in a creepy way), we decided to hitch hike on the highway until we found a van that was heading towards our destination. Our first destination was to go south and see the coastline of Greece and Albania. The trip would take about five hours, but it had always been a dream of mine to go there.

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