Happy Halloween from the Barn!

Happy Birthday, Amy!

We celebrated Amy's birthday on Tuesday, after the dorm meeting, with brownies and whipped cream! And, of course, the birthday song! Hope it was a good one, Amy!

Courtney's Birthday Celebration

We celebrated Courtney's birthday tonight, with the beloved shaved-ice fruit thingamajigs that everyone loves so much--and some juice. And the birthday song, of course!

Pumpkin Babies in the Barn

The finished pumpkins!

Pumpkin Carving Party

Look at that super-complicated wolf!

Briana was so thoughtful and sweet and brought a whole bunch of cute little pumpkins and right this minute they are downstairs carving away. Courtney is playing DJ and there's a lovely sing-a-long providing the soundtrack for tonight. Can't wait to see all of the finished pumpkins!

The play was AMAZING!

I just got back from the play, which had the most amazing set--and the most amazing cast (what with three of our Barnies in it and two behind the scenes.) Sarah H-F, Cheyenne, and Lia were on stage, Rowan worked on the set and was a house manager, and Cynthia worked on lighting. We couldn't be more proud of all the hard work they put in--and it really paid off!

Dorm Meeting

Check out the video below of the winning team getting untangled!

Our dorm leaders think of fun 'ice breaker' games we can play at the beginning of each dorm meeting--they help us build dorm unity (usually by sharing lots of laughter). Tonight we did the human knot...which is VERY challenging with so many people in such a small space! But they were victorious! (mostly)

We also shared "high's and low's" and it was really amazing to just take some time to see how everyone was feeling and to celebrate and sympathize with them.

We finished the meeting by learning to greet each other in our four languages, which sounds something like this (phonetically, of course):

Mandarin: Nee-hao
Korean: Anyoung
Spanish: Hola
Danish: Hi! (that one's easy).

Melisa and Michael's Pumpkin Carving

Michael and I carved pumpkins this weekend! Don't be too impressed--we used a kit. And after a mere two and a half hours we had these! Sadly, we also found out you shouldn't carve pumpkins two weeks before Halloween. My monster (we called him Robbie) already started shriveling. =( I miss him. Michael's cowering little guy is still in one piece...so far...

Come see our fall production!

Fall production opens next week, and Cheyenne, Lia, Sarah H-F, and Rowan have all been working really hard getting ready for it. Let's all show our support!

Go Barnies!

Good Morning!

We learned at our dorm meeting last week how to say "good morning" in Mandarin, Korean, Spanish, and Danish!

Tai's "Walking a Life of Death"

At the end of each Mod, we all get together in the student gallery to celebrate the student art work created during that mod. It's a bit belated, but I went down to the gallery to try to capture at least some of the artwork from each of the Barnies represented in the art show so everyone can appreciate how talented and creative they are!

Tai's "New Generation"

Amy's Crushed Cans

Briana's Spiky Sculptures

From Yujia and Tai

Cynthia's scuplture

Sarah's Self-Portraits

Yujia's Hand Sculpture

Amy's Hand Sculpture

Briana's "Sweet" Bed