Dorm Meeting Time Warp!

Our dorm leaders led our dorm meeting yesterday, and in honor of Halloween, they started by teaching us all how to do the TimeWarp dance! Then, as a followup...we learned how to say "Let's do the Time Warp dance again!" in several different languages. Now, when we run into each other on the quad, we can break out into song and dance (in several languages.)

There were a lot of kudos and other fun things at our dorm meeting too....including preparations for a fun Halloween celebration next week. And an update on our dorm sweatshirts...we'll be ready to order them tomorrow, and students will have the option of charging them home. The cost will be approximately $30 each, and they will be FABULOUS! Hopefully, we'll have them before Thanksgiving break! YAY!

Pictures from the Halloween Dance!

Happy Birthday, Sarah HF!

Yesterday was Sarah's birthday and we celebrated with apples and caramel and pita chips and hummus. And the birthday song, of course. =)

Kudos!

The Barn has a tradition called Kudos, started by students two years ago. Throughout the week, whenever we want to applaud one of our dormmates, we write a little note for them and slip it in the kudos box, to be read aloud at the next dorm meeting. Here's a sample Kudos reading from last night's meeting...

Mod 1 Art Show

We have some pretty talented Barnies, and I tried to capture at least one work of art from each of them....ENJOY!!

Sarah S.'s portrait

Ellery's jewelry-making class

Kirin's surreal collage

Lia's portrait

Niko's self portrait

Beechna's self portrait

Yujia's photography

Briana's photo of Niko making her self portrait!

Yujia in One-on-One Dance Performance

The One-on-One dances are like a big-sister dance, where an older/more experienced dance student choreographs a dance for a younger/less experienced dance student. Yujia participated this year and was awesome!

Congratulations, Riz!

Riz was elected by her class to serve on the student Activities Committee! YAY!

Lost in Translation...

Last night's dorm meeting was long, but fruitful! After a fun weekend of activities that included Blue Man Group and Alice vs. Wonderland, we all gathered together to learn phrases in all of the native languages of the dorm, which include Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Danish, Italian, and Spanish. We started with greetings, so we learned how to say hi and bye! In case you want to learn along with us, here's our phonetic guide:

Extra kudos go to Rowan S. and Rowan H. who have been peppering their roommates with questions in an effort to learn Chinese on their own. =)

Then, we voted on the designs for our 2010-2011 dorm sweatshirt! We had really great entries this year, and we're proud of everyone who submitted. It kind of made us wish we were designing more than one sweatshirt. But we offer warm congratulations to TILLY, whose designs were selected for both the front and the back of the sweatshirt! Here are the winning designs:

This will be the chest logo on the front of the sweatshirt

This design will be the big design on the back of the sweatshirt

Next week, we'll figure out which style and color of sweatshirt we want! Then, we went on to celebrate our new ROKU, which is a new gadget we've gotten for our dorm that allows us to stream netflix movies as often as we want. We definitely tested it out this weekend, and it was very exciting.

Finally, we celebrated Felicia's birthday with brownies, ice cream, and a very enthusiastic birthday song:

Ciao for now!