Happy Halloween!

Last night we celebrated Halloween in our dorm. Some of the girls went trick-or-treating, and then we gathered for a brief dorm meeting and Halloween celebration with yummy snacks.

Kirin and Sarah H-F getting silly with candy eyeballs. Creepy.

Rowan S's pumpkin

Asha's pumpkin

Michael's pumpkin

Melisa's pumpkin.

 We also got to celebrate Lia and Amy's birthdays!

Barnies in Fall Pro

The fall production of "Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights" by Gertrude Stein was OUTSTANDING. Aside from all of our actors, Sarah H-F's lighting got RAVE reviews. We were so proud of everyone!
(You can see more pics on the CSW facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/cambridgeschool.

Just a typical Wednesday night in the Barn

Wednesday night, Trapelo had their annual Halloween party (a little early) and one of their traditions is a campus raid. This usually consists of them running through all of the dorms, scaring people, screaming, and chanting "Trapelo!" This year, our dorm decided to launch a counter attack. The Barnies left the dorm deserted and hid in the woods around our dorm. Jordan put on his super scary Halloween mask and waited in a dark Hallway for the Trap girls to enter. Once they all came in, they came across a long, masked monster with a light shining on him and were quite frightened, I'm sure. When they all ran out of the dorm, our girls ran out of the woods and what followed involved much shrieking! We had a video, but it doesn't want to play with us today, sorry.

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!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR STUDENT LEADERS

We have two big leadership opportunities in our dorm (other than dorm leaders, of course).  First, we have our Boarding Life Committee (you might remember that Cheyenne from our dorm was recently elected to be the Head of our Boarding Life Committee.) Boarding Life Committee consists of the head, two elected representatives from each dorm, and the Dean of Residential Life. The meet each week to discuss our residential life program, and they solicit and address concerns or ideas brought up by the boarding community. Those ideas become warrants, are discussed in a town meeting, and then are put to a vote. And that's how changes get made in our residential life program! This year, SARAH S. and AMY were elected to serve in this meaningful role. Thank you to everyone who ran and CONGRATULATIONS to Sarah and Amy!

Next, we have our Dorm Board. This is the dorm's judicial board, which is brought together to hear minor dorm infractions. Consisting of 3 elected members (and 2 alternates), Dorm Board will listen to the infractions, ask questions, and determine an appropriate consequence. This is a role that requires a great deal of trust, fairness, and thoughtfulness. This year we had a record ELEVEN people run, and it was a VERY close race. We offer congratulations to our alternates (Tilly and Niko) and our Dorm Board for the 2010-2011 school year.....

Sarah H-F, Lia, and Julia!!!

Happy Birthday, Cynthia and KyoungHee

Cynthia and KyoungHee both turned 17 this week...on the same day! We celebrated with ice cream sundaes, frozen blueberries and the birthday song! 

Apples to Apples

We love playing Apples to Apples. We played for a couple hours and people just rotated in and out as needed. (Melisa won.) =)

Congrats to Cheyenne and Happy Birthday, Flo!

Sunday was a big night in our dorm. First, we had our second family style dinner:

And then the students running for Head of Boarding Life and Town Meeting Moderator gave speeches...including Cheyenne, who did an awesome job:

(spoiler alert: she won! YAYYY Cheyenne!)

Then, we went back to the dorm for dorm meeting, super clean, and FLO'S BIRTHDAY! YAYYY FLO.
We celebrated with strawberry shortcake and the birthday song:

It was super fun.