Captain's Log: Voyagers

These are the voyages of the GAMship captains.  Our fifth Captain's Log is about two captains.  This is the voyage of two extraordinary friends, Captain Janneisy "Janeway" Vidals and Captain Luiza "Lulu" Bilt.

GAM has a tradition of officers selflessly switching titles to give each other a chance at the helm. Our original two captains--Captain Ninoska Alvarez (CCNY) and Captain Harry Baker (NYIT)--both switched to give another officer a chance to be captain before they graduated.  In that fine example, Captain Luiza and Commander Janneisy switched titles.  Luiza and Janneisy are great friends, and Luiza wanted her friend to be captain before she graduated.  GAM CCNY is very lucky to have had two great friends leading their ship.  So Captain Luiza offered the helm for a semester to Commander Janneisy.

Captain Janneisy Vidals, GAM CC Fall 2010
Captain Luiza Bilt, GAM CC Spring 2011

Captain Janneisy then guided GAM ahead in an event labeled Go GAManas to combine a message about good nutrition in between classes with the showing of a foreign film that complemented that message.  The timing could not have been more perfect.  Go GAManas was able to support a professor's class project that similarly encouraged marketing students to use their skills to spread a message of good health.

After the two friends switched titles back, Captain Luiza resumed leading GAM ahead in C.C.N.Y. University (a GAMetta Stone series) to combine school pride with GAM's mission to unite students. GAM invited language clubs and other organizations with cultural themes to decorate a table in the style of their most iconic new year celebration to Come Celebrate New Years by sharing the University of the Countless Cultures of New York at C.C.N.Y.

Captain Janneisy recalls:  "I felt very welcomed from the moment I joined as a shipmate.  While I was a shipmate I learned so many life lessons and how to communicate better.  Face it, the world out there is tough and you have to learn how to market yourself.  I learned through challenges how to market myself through GAM."

Captain Luiza recalls her first event before taking the helm of GAM:  "MoMMA was a special and memorable event that not only made me celebrate my mother in pleasant way but also interact and get insights about the other GAM shipmates' lives, pasts, feelings and thoughts, getting to know them better."

Without these two extraordinary friends, the voyages of GAM CCNY would have ended a year ago. Captain Luiza and Captain Janneisy sail out of port soon.  Bon Voyage, Captain Janneisy and Captain Luiza