Before Break

I hope everyone had a great holiday! Here are a few pictures from before break that I never got posted. Enjoy them!

Ethan's 22nd birthday

 "Adam, don't let me out of my room until my work is done"

Story time with Dom

 Outasight performing at Colby

Gabby and Peje

Library naps

I'll post some pictures from break soon, I promise!

The Holiday Season

We got pretty into the Holiday Season this year at school. Here are a few pictures with blurbs, but know that this is not nearly all of the activities that went on, holiday related.

 Paper snowflake making in order to compensate for no snow...

Reindeer cookies

Ugly sweater party. 

Secret Santa under a poinsetta

Adam wearing a paper gingerbread man chain as a belt

College version of a Christmas tree.

I hope everyone did well with their finals, and that you all are getting home safely! Happy Holidays!

Thanksgiving 2012

Sorry this post is really late- end of semester and finals week are in full swing so I've been super busy. But here are a few pictures of my time in Houlton with Anna for Thanksgiving this year:

Aroostook County Solar System

Over Thanksgiving, I went to Anna's house up in Houlton, ME, a.k.a. Canada. But, one cool thing about Aroostook County is their model solar system. A professor at University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI) designed a to-scale model of the solar system- each planet is the size it would be in relation to the others, and is exactly the distance it would be from the sun (in this case, one AU equaled 1 mile). And so, Anna and I drove to all the planets and took pictures. Duh.

The cross-section of the Sun.

Mercury

Venus.

Earth and the moon.

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune.

Little baby Pluto.

So, if you're ever up in The County, drive up Route 1 and find all the planets. It's a pretty fun challenge!

We Grew Up At Midnight

This year, I have challenged myself to do something each month that is 100% out of my comfort zone, and so far it's been going really well! One of the things I did was dance in a student choreographed dance piece (called We Grew Up At Midnight), that we performed on Friday and Saturday night, and it was SO much fun. I loved working with these girls all semester, and am a little bit bummed out that it's over! It's also cool that I was exposed to so many new things I normally would not have experienced at Colby (backstage Runnals? When would I have ever been there?). Anyways, here are a few pictures of the experience:

Rehearsal in the Dance Studio

Costuming!

First all-company meeting at the beginning of Tech Week

Mika's piece from backstage

Delaney's dancers: (left to right) Delaney, Maggie, Ellie, Sara, me, and Mika

Sara's piece from backstage

 These goofy kids came to see the performance!

It was such a fun experience! I hope to do it again next semester. We will see. 

'Tis The Season

I was feeling a little crafty last weekend so this is what I did:

It's a Christmas Countdown Chain! I have three categories: red is something I love or appreciate (concrete), green is something I love or appreciate (abstract), and blue is a small act of kindness that I have challenged myself to do that day.

These are all of the "items" lined up. 

So, I will cut one off of the chain (they were put into the chain in a random order) each day, as a countdown to Christmas. I'm hoping that it will bring me a little bit of happiness and gratitude in this season that is so marred by consumerism and greed. I'm dorky, I know, but I want this chain to remind me that there are a lot of big, important things that may be forgotten in the stress of finals and end-of-semester drama. 

I'll let you know how it goes.