Boarders' Weekend

We started with a hypnotist and ice cream sundae bar on Friday night, and today we played twister, jenga, poker, fruit poker, pictionary, guesstures, and balloon pop tag....followed by a boarding town meeting, where the boarding community voted to institute a family style dinner program next year. YAY CSW FAMILY!

Melisa and Rainn Play Drums

The Annual Egg Hunt is ON!

That's right. 56 eggs were hidden in the dorm on Monday night, after all the boarders were snug in their beds. As of today, 13 eggs remain hidden. Sneaky! Here are pics of some of our favorite eggies, waiting to be discovered...

Happy Birthday, Cheyenne & Tilly!

We celebrated Cheyenne and Tilly's birthdays on Sunday with cupcakes and make-your-own-sundaes!

Happy Birthday, Rowan!

Rowan's birthday was Tuesday, and we celebrated with ice cream cakes after dorm meeting!

Mod 5 Art Show!

Courtney's photo of Cheyenne and Tai

Kirin's Jewelry

Niko knitted this out of paper!

Kandice

Emily's hat

Da Hae's Photo of people interacting with drawn art

Courtney's photo of Briana

Courtney's photo of Emily

Cheyenne's jewelry

Happy Birthday, Jane and Kirin!

Jane's birthday was yesterday, and Kirin's is tomorrow. So we celebrated with delicious Dunkin Donuts and chocolate chip cookies! And, of course...the birthday song. =)

Happy Birthday, Yujia!

We celebrated Yujia's birthday on Sunday night with special flavors of ice cream from Starbucks!

Videos from Dance Concert

Have been posted on www.facebook.com/cambridgeschool. They feature lots of Barnies!

Barnies in the Dance Concert!

Busy Weekend!

We had another busy weekend in our dorm. First, our resident poets and members of Poetic Justice performed at the ICA museum on Friday night. At the same time, Jane and Julia (and the other members of our girls varsity basketball team) played in the final CHAMPIONSHIP game against Brimmer & May--on Brimmer's court--and WON!!!!! For the first time since 1994, the girls took home the championship with a final score of 44-36. Amazing. Finally, we celebrated Emily's half birthday last night, because we didn't think it was fair that she miss out just because her birthday falls over summer break. =)

You go, Kandice!

Tonight Alicia and I took a few of our girls to see Kandice (and 2 other CSW students) perform in an AMAZING show targeted to stop violence against women and girls. I tried to take a video but the beginning and the end got cut off a little bit. Sorry 'bout that. Still, it was so good I got GOOSEBUMPS. And some of us might have cried a bit. It's possible that happened. We are so proud of Kandice!

The video is too big to post on here...so please go see it on the CSW facebook page: www.facebook.com/CambridgeSchool.

A Red-Letter Week in the Barn!

Oh, this has been a very joyful week in our dorm.

First, we celebrated Valentine's Day by sneaking out of study hours (with permission) on Monday night to see the movie Valentine's Day. It wasn't the most profound movie ever, but it was uplifting and fun to all laugh and groan and sing and clap together.


Then, on Tuesday night we celebrated Kandice and Alicia's birthdays with cheesecake and the birthday song.


We welcomed a new resident in our dorm--Kirin, from Pennsylvania (and more recently, Trapelo dorm). We celebrated Black History Month with videos, slam poetry, and a few unsung heroes.

And we ended the night with a Red Envelope Treasure Hunt in honor of the Lunar New Year, which is celebrated at home by the Barn's Korean, Chinese, and Taiwanese students. Traditionally, elders give children money in little red envelopes. That wasn't quite in our dorm budget, so we put candy in the envelopes--and one very lucky "get out of a warning free" coupon. While students were in study hours, we hid them ALL over the dorm and sent them off on a treasure hunt at the end of dorm meeting. It was SO MUCH FUN. And, we have some VERY good searchers! The coupon was actually in the last envelope found--by Rowan, who said she needs it. =)

But...we found one envelope that was still hidden after all the girls had given up...which means the dorm parents are quite clever and proud of ourselves.

Congrats to Lia!

Lia won an honorable mention in the 2010 Globe Scholastic Art Awards.

Our winning students, along with other winners from Massachusetts, will be recognized at a ceremony on Feb. 14, and their work is currently on exhibit at the Transportation Building in Boston until March 19, 2010.

The winning artwork was selected from 6,500 individual and 500 portfolio submissions from students in grades 7-12 in public, private, and parochial schools in Massachusetts. The Boston Globe awards program is an affiliate of the national Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, which is now in its 86th year and is the longest running recognition programs for student artists and writers in the United States.

Go Lia!

Monday Night in the Barn

Today we celebrated Asha and Shari's half-birthdays. Since their birthdays are in the summer, they miss out on celebrating at school. And that's really not fair. Shari requested veggies and dip, and Asha wanted cupcakes!




We also celebrated Black History Month, with a whole bunch of quotes, some Malcolm X Trivia, and a beautiful, powerful poem.

We hope all of our friends out there are thinking about what Black History Month means to them...to the world...