Koalatea: Quality Topics & Tea

S6 ep 1 | From Sea to Shining Sea: Stories of Immigration In this episode, the KoalaTeam share stories of their families' immigration journeys, assimilating to life in the United States, and more! Leave a review on iTunes! Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! Share KoalaTea with your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

KoalaTea special episode: A KoalaTea catch-up We missed you! The KoalaTea cast enjoyed a brief hiatus while finishing college apps, but the wait is over! In this free-form episode, we discuss our thoughts on the state of the world. (Editor's note: This episode was recorded on November 22, and the state of the world has drastically changed since then.) Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Anchor.fm ad 0:39 Catching up after the hiatus 1:14 Outro 29:00 Calls to action: Leave a review on iTunes! Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! Share KoalaTea with your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

The illustrious Laura Sun has the honor of being our podcast's first guest! We asked her about her experiences in Scouts BSA (formerly the Boy Scouts of America) and all of the ups and downs of the journey. You don't want to miss this hour-long interview! ⚜️ Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Anchor.fm ad 0:53 LAURA

“Do as we say, not as we do” has become one of the themes of this podcast. Save yourself the trouble of learning things the hard way and listen to the KoalaTeam as they reflect on what they regret from high school. Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Anchor.fm ad 0:39 Our woeful regrets 1:14 Outro 25:04 Calls to action: Leave a review on iTunes! Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! Share KoalaTea with your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

S2 ep 6 || UC Admissions Are you planning to apply to the University of California system, and are you worried about the test-blind policy? Fear no more, for the KoalaTeam will attempt to assuage your concerns… (but seriously, do your own research!) Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Anchor.fm ad 0:42 UC admissions 1:17 Outro 29:52 Calls to action: Leave a review on iTunes! Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! Share KoalaTea with your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

S2 ep 5 || Stressing Stress Management The KoalaTeam share their tips on how to manage the stress that you'll inevitably experience in junior year. Listen to episode 5 of our junior year survival series for some more amazingly bad koala puns! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

S2 ep 4 || Timing is Everything Do you procrastinate? Writing essays the night before they're due even though you had a month to get things together? Wondering what the Pomodoro method is? Then attach yourself to the nearest eucalyptus tree and listen to Episode 4 of our Junior Year Survival series! Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Anchor.fm ad 0:44 Extracurricular advice 1:19 Outro 24:27 Calls to action: Leave a review on iTunes! Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! Share KoalaTea with your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

S2 ep 3 || Getting Extra with Extracurriculars How many extracurricular activities should you be involved in? What counts as an extracurricular? Why is depth, rather than breadth, preferred? And how do you prioritize everything? The KoalaTeam members discuss these topics and more in Season 2, episode 3: Getting Extra with Extracurriculars! (Plus some anecdotes from Boy Scouts and Bharathanatyam!) Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Anchor.fm ad 0:43 Extracurricular advice 1:18 Outro 33:29 Calls to action: Leave a review on iTunes! Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! Share KoalaTea with your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

S2 ep 2 || Acing Acorn Board Wondering whether you signed up for enough (or too many) AP classes? Stressed about how to tackle the APUSH DBQ? Does spelling matter in your FRQs? Get the answers to these questions and more in the latest episode of Koalatea: Quality Topics & Tea. (The KoalaTeam are now SENIORS! :O) Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Anchor.fm ad AP advice Outro High-koalatea music video made by some of our friends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqKAX1veNQY Calls to action: Leave a review on iTunes! Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! Share KoalaTea with your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

S2 ep 1 || A Koalatea Start to your Junior Year Worried about starting junior year? Fear not, for Koalatea is here! Listen to our feature-length episode to get tips on building connections, managing your time, taking care of yourself, and more! Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Anchor.fm ad 0:41 Junior year advice 1:16 Outro 38:13 Calls to action: Leave a review on iTunes! Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! Share KoalaTea with your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

5 || Takeaways from Time in Quarantine Quarantine has been a difficult time for all of us, but it has allowed us to think and reflect. Hear what the Koalateam has to say about this unique time in history! Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Takeaways 0:45 Anchor.fm ad 7:50 Takeaways (cont'd) 8:25 Outro 11:40 Calls to action: Leave a review on iTunes! Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! Share KoalaTea with your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

4b || Anime Corner with Anagha and Jackie Anagha and Jackie share their stories of how they started watching anime, and they discuss three anime recommendations! Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Anchor.fm ad 4:40 Outro 9:10 Calls to action: Leave a review on iTunes! Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! Share KoalaTea with your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

4a || Carl's Koality Rant on Recent Reading Support your favorite local bookstore (and beloved authors!) and hear our recommendations on what to read this summer. Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Anchor.fm ad 0:41 How Carl the Koala learned to read 1:06 Book recommendations 4:53 Outro 15:03 Honorable mentions: These books didn't make it into our final recommendation list but are worth reading! We will also have a blog post soon on koalateapod.com which will include some more book recommendations! Colin: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park Serrina: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, The Land of Stories series by Chris Colfer, Chemistry by Weike Wang Vibha: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson, Anagha: Flutter, Anne of the Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Jackie: The Secret Garden, Animal Farm by George Orwell Riva: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Shakespeare: fave comedy - Twelfth Night, fave tragedy - Macbeth, fave history - Henry V Calls to action: Leave a review on iTunes! Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! Share KoalaTea with your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

3 || Self-Care While Stuck at Home Unwind and spend some time taking care of yourself! The KoalaTeam share their personal experiences and tips for you, our lovely and loyal listeners, to decompress. Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Food 0:35 Anchor.fm ad 3:30 Beauty/skincare 4:05 Mental health 8:00 Outro 16:25 Sites mentioned: Tata Harper https://www.tataharperskincare.com/ L'Occitane en Provence https://www.loccitane.com/en-us/ Chloe Ting https://www.chloeting.com/program/ Mental health resources: NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness): https://www.nami.org NAMI mental health call center 1-800-704-0900: 24/7. Languages spoken: English, Mandarin, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255: 24/7, English and Spanish Grief counseling https://www.sccgov.org/sites/bhd/Documents/bhsd-covid-19/Grief-Support-COVID-addendum.pdf Bill Wilson Center: Centre for Living with Dying https://www.billwilsoncenter.org/services/all/living.html Calls to action: Leave a review on iTunes! Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! Share KoalaTea with your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

2 || Summer Solace in the Age of Contagion The KoalaTeam share their tips for how to spend the summer at home. Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Koality Code ad 0:55 What to do this summer 1:42 Anchor.fm ad 16:12 What to do this summer (cont'd) 16:51 Outro 31:49 Websites mentioned: https://letterly.org Calls to action: Leave a review on iTunes! Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! Share KoalaTea with your friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

1b || Tolerance in 2020 Vision — Personal Narratives In this episode, we share stories of our own experiences with racism and prejudice of varying degrees. Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Anchor.fm ad 0:23 Personal narratives 0:53 Outro 9:25 Calls to action: Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

1a || Tolerance in 2020 Vision — Reflecting on Racial Injustice, Social Unrest, and Police Brutality In this episode, we talk about the racial injustice ignited by the murder of George Floyd and the social unrest and calls for systemic change. The co-hosts express their opinions regarding systemic racism in the United States, and they address the demands to defund and/or abolish the police. Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Anchor.fm ad 0:45 Discussion on police brutality 1:25 Outro 17:03 Sources referenced: https://www.businessinsider.com/camden-new-jersey-police-disbanded-but-theres-more-to-story-2020-6 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-training-weeks-united-states/ https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/what-does-defund-the-police-mean-the-phrase-explained.html https://www.instagram.com/p/CBdOPmxDP8r/ Calls to action: Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message

Pilot || Welcome to Koalatea! In this episode, we introduce the members of our podcast: Colin Lim, Vibha Raju, Riva Mikhlin, Serrina Zou, Anagha Srivastav, and Jackie Li. We also delve into how we were inspired to start this podcast and deliver koality content regarding our experiences and opinions on current events. We also give you the behind-the-scenes story of how our mascot, Carl the Koala, was born. Stay tuned for more episodes! Timestamps: Introduction 0:00 Cast introductions 0:39 Carl the Koala origin story 8:33 Outro 11:13 Calls to action: Check out our website! https://koalateapod.com Follow us on Instagram (@koalatea.pod) and Twitter (@koalateapod) for the latest updates! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/koalatea/message