Let’s play a little game of catch-me-up, shall we?
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008Hi-ya gang! How was break? Was it dandy?
So after the Goldie Locks Adventure at the Preschool, soooo much has happened! So so SOO much! I wanted to make a little video about the events. I DID make a video in fact before Thanksgiving break, but somehow it didn’t get downloaded. Such a darn bummer. Therefore, I guess I’ll just have to write about what I did. However, I have some videos for your visual stimuli satisfaction. SAH-WEET!
So let’s go back to 2 Wednesday’s ago. That’s right…come back with me to Wednesday, November 19th. So later that day, I went to a lecture on Internships! I’m so up in the air about internships. I want to do one this summer, because they really REALLY give you connections in the theatre world. Nonetheless, I have a couple jobs at home during the summer, and I want to travel, and I want to see my home friends, and GOLLY GEE so much.
Ready….set….watch!
Then Thursday I was interested in attending something called Interfaith Dinner. I’m not a very religious person. It was just the way I was raised. However, I am a spiritual person and so I wanted to experience this dinner where all different religious groups on campus came together and to share their faiths with some good food. I was thankfully invited to sit at the Hillel table to eat with my friend Renee. I’m just happy something like this exists on campus; a celebration of accepting all different religions. It was a free, loving Thanksgiving dinner, a week early.
VIDEOS and PHOTOS.
Meg DiMaggio pointing out the lovely center piece of gords.
Chowin’ down at the Hillel table!
Renee Levine has knife and fork in hand.
Director of Hillel: Ellen, in the pink.
Here are videos of 4 different religious groups on campus in action at the Interfaith Dinner.
OH and plus, I went to see the midnight showing of Twilight in Poughkeepsie that night, which is about 25 minutes away. I never read the Twilight books, and I was afraid I wasn’t going to be able to follow along. Uh…it’s a human and a vampire falling in love. How difficult did I think it was going to be? But ya know what? I LOVED the movie. I heard mixed feelings about the movie from Twilight fans, but I just fell in love with the story…and oh…Robert Pattinson! UH… DREAMY! I thought they did a great job of taking a fantastical concept and converting it into believable, beautifully awkward moments. I asked my mom and dad for all of the Twilight books for Christmas, probably like every other thirteen-year-old girl, but I DON’T CARE!! I will be having a lovely time this winter break reading up on Edward Cullen and Bella Swan’s love story…and juuust being a romantic mush.
Here’s a bunch of us seeing Twilight at the midnight showing!
Friday was loads of fun. I have a lot of classes that day, which ISN’T fun, however, I had a group project due in my English Lit 1 class. We had to summarize a canto from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, point out and research the allegories represented in the canto, and do a close reading of a couple of stanzas. My group and I had to teach the class what happened in Canto 10. To help the class comprehend this difficult canto, my group and I had the idea to make a skit incorporated with modernized language. That way, the class could laugh, have fun, AND understand it for that tricky final coming up. We asked for volunteers from our classmates to read parts and they really had a blast with it! They loved our references to things such as Twilight, Charlie the Unicorn, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Fellow pupils (that’s right, I actually used that out-of-date word for students) came up to us and said how good our presentation was and…WOW…it was such a wonderful, rewarding feeling!
Here’s a picture of my group and I, after the class was over!
Saturday was a nonstop day! Didn’t even get to sleep in! But hey- I made some dough, so why should I be complaining? I went in at 10am to work in the Admissions building to help with all the mail we’ve been getting this year! WHOA so many applying to New Paltz, it’s insane in the membrane!
All the Student Ambassadors who came in that day had a lot of laughs, eating bagels in the morning, pizza for lunch, and just opening mail or working at the computers (like I did.) I worked until 3pm and then at 4pm I met up with a friend who graduated last year. Her name is Lizz Guzzman and she has a heart of gold with a brain of gold to match (I think I just made up a new expression?) At any rate, we sat at the Plaza Diner, which is right in the Stop N Shop shopping center in New Paltz, for 2 ½ hours because we just had so much to share. She’s so inspiring and bright, and just one of those people that is so relatable. She double majored in Theatre Arts and English last year, and last year she won the “Outstanding Undergraduate Award.” Here, check it out… http://www.newpaltz.edu/english/workscitedvol1issue5.pdf
After having such a lovely time with her, I had to race over to get ready for Our Sexy Pitch performance at 60 Main. The Sexy Pitches is an all girls a cappella group. We opened for fellow New Paltz student Sophia Wortzel, who was my suitemate freshman year! This is her myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sophiawortzel Here check out some of these videos I took.
Sorry, it was kinda dark in there!
Oh and hey, the Sexy Pitches debuted our new song that we arranged: Killin Me Softly with His Song. Check it out! I got it on Viiiiiiideo! Boo ya!
So thanks for playin a little catch-me-up with me! I hope you enjoyed the aplethora of videos and such! Have a not-too hectic Tuesday!
Look what a little kid drew!
Delicious!
Ginormous Turkey!
Some of the prayers.
Some music even!

Liz, me and Joanna!







This guy rapped a song called “Bubble Butt.” Obviously he could have sang, “Mary had a Little Lamb,” and the lady audience members would have still loved him.






Jamie Michelmen, everyone!
Jamie Michelman and Marlea Liguori being cute kiddies.
Erica Clough, Brittney Daily and Kevin McSherry (NP BLOGGER WOOT WOOT) all giving a wide grin…cept for Kev here. Hmm.
Erin Kowalsky and Meagan Olsen giving the ever-so-cheesy “thumbs up.”
Student Ambassador group shot!
Well we couldn’t ALL fit at one table!
Haha, this is painted on the top of the fridge they have in the restaurant! Rock (Da) Pasta!
Nichole Saldana yelping when I took a picture of her. She was caught unawares!
Meagan Olsen acting like the gem she is when we are walking through campus to tie up those darn balloons. We don’t want any families getting lost, now do we?
My theatre professor, Stephen Kitsakos, sacrificed his own raincoat to put over the jacket the costume shop made. It rained!!
Gianna Cioffi rolling that raincoat covered jacket out of the Athletic and Wellness Center.
Jamie Michelman one more time and Zuri Regisford at the Staff meeting after we officially completed the Open House season!
Chris Levine and Stephanie Samuel smiling at the staff meeting! They ain’t tired!
Kevin McSherry on the go!
Marlea Liguori a little sleepy (which is totally understandable! It’s a looong day! By the way, that’s what I looked like last open house!) And there’s Paul Kohler in the corner, all smiles.
Sarah Doran just discovered we have HUGE pockets inside our jackets.
This is me with my “big, tripped-out name tag” as they say in that Progessive commerical. You know what I’m talking about, right? I’ll put up a YouTube video of it, BUT, I just want to let you know that Jamie MADE this name tag for me. Shana, the bossy boss, says she ordered me one, but I’ve been a Student Ambassador for 2 semesters and I STILL don’t have one. Not like I’m bitter or anything. Haha I just can’t win! So here it is, my homemade name tag for you all to see!
Shana Circe with our Team Leader, Matt Vitale. Matt is graduating this December, so this was his last Saturday tour of his life here at SUNY New Paltz !
A REAL group shot of all us Student Ambassadors 2008, after Open House ended! We’re on the Admission Building’s steps. We’re all serious here.
All us being silly gooses! AHHH haha Kevin McSherry what are you doing to that pole!?


























