Tuesday
We found out our outreach location choices today - I’ll be telling you the choices and the location I chose as soon as the teams are confirmed.
Friday
Yesterday and today the September DTS came back from their outreaches - one team from Poland, one from India. A lot of us shifted from first and second level bunks to the third level bunks that are almost ten feet off the ground in order to allow the returning students to move in more easily - we knew a lot of them would be horribly jet lagged. It’s a bit nerve wracking sleeping up that high when there aren’t any rails to keep one from rolling off like one of the girls from the September DTS did during their lecture phase. It’s pretty crowded here having almost 50 students in the same house.
I’m on the planning team for Café Night - which is going on tomorrow - and I’d volunteered to make chocolate chip cookies for everyone, so I gave Gina the list of things I’d need and wrote out my recipe. Esther and Ruth helped me make them - we made 2 huge cookie pizzas and cut them into squares.
I’m on the planning team for Café Night - which is going on tomorrow - and I’d volunteered to make chocolate chip cookies for everyone, so I gave Gina the list of things I’d need and wrote out my recipe. Esther and Ruth helped me make them - we made 2 huge cookie pizzas and cut them into squares.
Saturday
This morning at nine o’clock Vetle came up to the girl’s landing, blew the brass horn that hangs in the stairwell, and announced that all of the girls from the January DTS needed to be down in the front hall bynine fifteen.
We had guessed that the guys were going to do something for us for Valentine’s day, but we weren’t sure exactly what. We were totally surprised when they came out into the front hall all dressed up in collared shirts and ties and escorted us into the Leather Room. They’d set a long table with lace table cloths, candles, and hand-written calligraphy place cards (Jon has many talents, apparently), and they had Norah Jones playing. Shea told us how the guys just wanted to show how they appreciate us, then they proceeded to take our drink orders and set plates before each of us. They’d made crepes, scrambled eggs, bacon, and hash browns. They kept our drinks full and cleared away our plates, then served us fruit salad. All of us girls were terribly impressed - these guys had gone all out!
This evening was our DTS’s first Café Night. The dining room had been rearranged and decorated for Valentine’s day and mics and a movie screen had been set up at one end of the room. There were about ten different acts put on by students and staff. I acted as emcee, which was a bit intimidating at first as I didn’t know about half of the audience, but it turned out to be fun.
Some people sang, some showed funny videos they’d made, Jon and Gert-Jan made a game with video clips - my small group read out 8 poems we’d written, one for each of the guys in our DTS. That was fun - they were lame poems, but they were made up of inside jokes so everyone got a good laugh out of them.
The act that stole the show was the last - it was Turid’s idea. She and Kayla got up and called Shea, Jon, and a staff member named Con up to the front and surprised them by asking them to complete a series of tasks and compete to be the most romantic guy.
They each had to show how they would ask a girl out, propose to her, and deal with her having a baby. The guys went up one at a time and didn’t get to see what the other two had done, so things got pretty funny - I haven’t laughed that much in a long time! Jon won, the gentleman.
Photos: Saturday, Feb 14
Me emceeing & making a funny face
We had guessed that the guys were going to do something for us for Valentine’s day, but we weren’t sure exactly what. We were totally surprised when they came out into the front hall all dressed up in collared shirts and ties and escorted us into the Leather Room. They’d set a long table with lace table cloths, candles, and hand-written calligraphy place cards (Jon has many talents, apparently), and they had Norah Jones playing. Shea told us how the guys just wanted to show how they appreciate us, then they proceeded to take our drink orders and set plates before each of us. They’d made crepes, scrambled eggs, bacon, and hash browns. They kept our drinks full and cleared away our plates, then served us fruit salad. All of us girls were terribly impressed - these guys had gone all out!
This evening was our DTS’s first Café Night. The dining room had been rearranged and decorated for Valentine’s day and mics and a movie screen had been set up at one end of the room. There were about ten different acts put on by students and staff. I acted as emcee, which was a bit intimidating at first as I didn’t know about half of the audience, but it turned out to be fun.
Some people sang, some showed funny videos they’d made, Jon and Gert-Jan made a game with video clips - my small group read out 8 poems we’d written, one for each of the guys in our DTS. That was fun - they were lame poems, but they were made up of inside jokes so everyone got a good laugh out of them.
The act that stole the show was the last - it was Turid’s idea. She and Kayla got up and called Shea, Jon, and a staff member named Con up to the front and surprised them by asking them to complete a series of tasks and compete to be the most romantic guy.
They each had to show how they would ask a girl out, propose to her, and deal with her having a baby. The guys went up one at a time and didn’t get to see what the other two had done, so things got pretty funny - I haven’t laughed that much in a long time! Jon won, the gentleman.
Photos: Saturday, Feb 14
Me emceeing & making a funny face
It's really wild that you were the emcee...That took some guts. Did you volunteer or were you "drafted"? Dad
ReplyDeleteIt was fun being emcee - I think I was better prepared for it than I expected due to all my time at Old World. I don't have nearly as much of a problem with getting up in front of crowds as I used to.
ReplyDeleteI signed up to be part of the party planning team along with Esther and Jonathan, and Gina (the gal who was heading things up) asked if one of us could host and I volunteered.
You missed out one of Jonny, Shea and Con's challenges...the infamous 'daughter finds out she's a woman' scene!
ReplyDeleteYou're right! I have no idea how I forgot about that one - it was one of the best!
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