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Hello All,

There are so many great things going on on campus. The big one this past weekend was the College Fun Fair. More then half of the student body helps with this event. It is a fair that we have for mostly small children in the community. There are fun games to play, prizes to win, and yummy food to eat. I sat at the prize table. It was a very intense experience.

The Sorcerer, the community theatre production I am in, opens this Friday. I am so excited, and it will be sad when it is over next weekend but nice to have free time. I have so many things to do for the end of the year, not to mention all the packing that has to get done. Well it is good for me to be busy, it keeps me going, when there is no schedule I become late and don't remember anything that must get done.

So school is really winding down, you can tell because all the events are titled "End of the Year . . .." I think it is kind of funny, but whatever. I am sure I have said this before but the projects and papers are all due so soon. They are all due within about 1 week of each other, kind of intense. But luckily I don't have any exams, just papers and projects. Thank goodness for that.

Well I must fly, too much to do and too little time to do it . . .

PS The Sorcerer opens this Friday, tomorrow, you should come if you are in the area. Google "Mitchell Performing Arts Center" and you can get tickets online.

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School is almost over! We only have about 3 weeks left. WOW!!!!! There is so much going on at the college lately. With end of the year homework, tests, projects and papers, then add onto that all the end of the year social events, it is just plain old crazy here.

This past weekend StuGo put on a campus clean up on Saturday and after that night there was a barbecue on back campus. This event was started by students on StuGo. They wanted to have an event to clean up the campus before Alumni Weekend, which is this weekend. They did a great job and the campus looks even better then it already did.

My life has been so busy lately. The BACT show The Sorcerer, opens not this weekend but the next weekend. The other thing that I have is the college dance ensemble has a small performance this weekend for Alumni Weekend and then the real recital is not this weekend but net weekend, the same weekend that The Sorcerer opens, so this next week is going to be busy every night, all night.

I can't wait for summer, but getting to summer is going to one busy, busy time. Hope i can make it.

Talk soon!

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This past week was one of the most regular weeks ever. There was nothing very special or busy going on, just regular school. My busiest day was Tuesday, and it wasn't even that busy. But on Saturday Social Committee had a Speak Easy. Those were the parties that all the people had in the 20's when it was illegal to drink alcohol. We didn't have alcohol, but I heard was was lots of fun.

And other then that, I don't have too much more to say. I am tired, as usual, and should really try to get some more sleep. Life is hard when you do not sleep very much. I am not busy this week though so sleep is going to be first priority.

Wish me luck . . .

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Hey Everyone,

Hope you all had a great past week. Mine was busy as usual. I don't think I has said anything about it yet but, our whole campus is under construction. We are getting new building left and right. They just recently finished our new chapel. It is really pretty and I am happy I do not have to go to the Cathedral for chapel on Wednesdays anymore. Well the school decided to have a dedication service to show the people who donated money what it looks like. I sung two songs for that, one duet and a trio. That was fun. Then afterward they had a little reception and I gave two tours of the new parts of our main building and the library. It was fun to socialize with all the important adults and board members.

Lisa Kim, who played some songs on the flute (she is really good), asked myself and the others who sang and played piano for the singing if we could sing the songs at our next two chapel services. This way more people will get to hear them, and we worked so hard on them, it is nice to be able to sing them more than just once.

On Saturday I went to a Buddhist Temple for a Dharma talk. It was for the class contemporary comparison religion. It was interesting, there was a lot of meditating and sitting. It was hard for me to stay quite and still for about 20 minutes straight, but it was a good experience. Learning about other religions is really fun, not to mention actually going to different services. It is neat to see how other people worship.

Well that is all I got for this past week. This week is going to be even more busy than last week. I will tell you how it all turns out on my next blog.

Talk to you soon!

Posted by Alexis Asplundh at 11:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

HAPPY EASTER!!!

It has been a long time since I have posted anything, and I apologize for that. I hope everyone has been well. I also hope that everyone had a great easter and that the Easter Bunny came to there house. I like candy a lot, so Easter is a good holiday for me. I have also been really busy with the start of a new term. All the classes that i am taking are more difficult then my past course loads. However the classes that i am taking are really fun. For example, contemporary comparative religion with Rev. Silverman is so fun. He is a great teacher and really loves what he teaches which makes learning from him a lot easier.

I was in charge of putting on the coffee house last week. I was really sad because I didn't think that anyone would show up. But to my pleasant surprise there were a lot of people there. I was so happy it made my night so much better. So that coffee house was a success.

Social council has a lot of really cool ideas that we want to do. A birthday bash, a lock in, a speak-easy and bowing and roller skating. We are making all of them happen. I think that going roller skating would be so much fun. I love roller skating. If you have never gone before . . . you should go. It is fun to learn how to.

Well the time has come for me to go to a rehearsal for The Sorcerer (a Gilbert and Sullivan show that I am in). Do not fear though, I will be back next week with news about how roller skating goes this next weekend.

Till then . . .

Posted by Alexis Asplundh at 1:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Hello Everyone,
Life is good right now. I have been busy, but mostly with the high school volleyball games that I help coach. They just take up a lot of my time, and last week we had 3 games. But other then that life so going well.

This past weekend was busy but very fun. On Friday I had a high school volley ball game that I went to. That was fun and we won. There was also a high school basketball game on Saturday. This was especially fun because the game got filmed and it was on TV later that night. We lost, but we dominated for the whole game except the last 2 minutes. It was sad that the high school lost but really neat that they got to play and it was going to be put on TV. And, I was on TV. I guess the camera went by me. My friend called me to tell me. So that is cool.

Sunday was Super Bowl. There was a party that the social council put on at Childs hall (Men's dorm). I heard that was very fun, and when I went over to make sure everything was running smoothly, all the people that were there seemed to be having fun. I am glad that event went well, we didn't do the best advertising for it so it is good that a number of people who showed up.

Well, the winter term is winding down and there are many papers and tests coming up. I am not excited about those, but final tests mean that there will be a break, and I need a break desperately. This term has been a lot busier then I thought it was going to be. Fun but busy and tiring. I have loved all of my classes though, and my teachers have been great.

Well, the writing of papers has to start sometime and I think that time needs to be now for me.

Have a good week,

Alexis

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Hello all!
I has been a while but I am back. I had a great break and I hope you did too. I got to relax and sleep which was much needed. I went to the Bahamas with my family for the second week of break. That was a lot of fun. Coming back to school was not very fun though. After spending a week in warmth coming home to cold was very hard.

The first week back from break was good. I didn't have that much homework over the break, and that was good. And because I have a fairly light course load this term, I didn't have very much homework or anything the first week back. The only thing I didn't like was having it be so cold.

There was Karaoke, however one of my friends was leaving the next day to go back to school so she had a fire outside on her deck, so I went to that to see her one more time before she left. I only heard good things about it. Everyone who went had fun.

This past weekend was Whit Hot Club Night. This is a dance the college puts on. the college turns Cairnwood, which is an event building, into a club and the collage and there friends go and dance and eat and have so much fun. Everyone gets dressed up too which is always fun, especially for the girls. There were a lot of people there and I had fun.

Well that is all for now. I need to start writing a paper. As always feel free to ask questions or comment on my blog.

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Hey everyone!

How have you been doing. I have been extremely busy. I have been helping with costumes for the Tableaux at the cathedral. the Tableaux is something that we put on every year here in Bryn Athyn. It is where there is an acting out of the Christmas story. It is cool though because it is at night and there is music and it is just a really powerful thing to see. So I have been busy in that (I was a shepherd, they are the ones that sing) and I helped out with costumes for that. It was fun and the lady in charge was very happy I could help her out.

Another really fun thing that happened this past weekend was a movie night at my house. It was really good and we had a great turn out. And I didn't get too much food, that really made my day brighter. We watched Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. We had music going and people were playing ping pong it was such a good time.

Then the next night, last Saturday, the men's dorm threw a big formal dinner for the women's dorm. It was so cute we all got dressed up and didn't have to eat dinning hall food, which is fine but get old after a while. After there were people watching a movie, but I just hung out with my friends, because I had been so busy it had been a while since I had seen them all.

On Tuesday we had a college skate night. That was fun! I haven't gone skating in so long, and I am really bad at it now. But it was fun to see and hang out with more people. It was cold though. Good thing the college social center is right there so I went and got warm for a little there.

Yesterday after chapel we sung Christmas songs with the whole college and then had lunch all together. That was fun, and because we are so small we can actually do things like that. Most people were there, some left early though.

Well that is what has been going on here. I am just glad I am not as busy as I was last week and not stressed all the time. I can relax before Christmas Break which is a rare thing.

So I will not be getting back to all you readers until I get back from my trip to the Bahamas (that is where I am going form break). So I will talk to you in about 2 weeks and tell you every thing that I did while I was down south.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE
and
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!

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So this past weekend was filled with Christmasy things to do. It was crazy. There was at least one thing on everyday. On Friday especially there were so many different things to do. There was a group that when to Philly to sing the Messiah, there was a group that went to Philly for first Friday (art galleries are open for everyone, I went to that one) and one of the girls in the dorm had a snow flake making party (you know the paper ones that people make). I wish I could have gone to all of them.

So the galleries in Philly were so cool. I have never really been to an art gallery and it was really cool to see the different paintings drawings and mixed media pieces. I walked around with my friend who is really into art and then later we met up with the rest of the group who had stayed together. After the galleries closed we just walked around Philly for a little. It was cool to see how excited the international students got about the city. It is kind of like when we go to France we really want to see Paris because that is one of the major cities, for them to come here Philly and NYC are the main cities that they want to see. They took so many pictures, it was so fun. For me it is always weird being touristy in the city that I live in (ok well not really live in in but it is so close).

Because we got back a little late from that making snow flakes was not really an option. There were a few people still making away but most people had left. But from the looks of how much food was gone it looked like there was a good turnout. I really wish I could have sung the Messiah. That was really sad for me to miss. Oh well there is always next year.

Saturday was really fun too. I didn't really do anything just relax before the last weeks until break. Broom ball happened that night. For those who don't know, it is where you play hockey except you wear shoes on the ice and play with a ball and brooms. It is always a good time. It was funny because everyone is so soar the next day from falling and running on ice. Some girls in my dance class today were really soar from it. That made me laugh. However, I went to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra with some 4 of my friends. It was sooooooo good. I suggest if you ever get the chance to go see it do. The lights and music are sooo good. It is really exciting.

Well that is all for now.

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Hey everyone!

So I have been very busy. I have more classes this term then I had last term so more time is spent in school. But a lot of my time out of school has been spent on some extra curricular activities. For one, I am dancing again. Dancing again is like a breath of fresh air, I really had forgotten how much I love to dance. I have dance as a class and am getting credit for it and I also dance with the college dance students that dance outside of class. We have just started to work on the dances for the performance and it is getting really exciting.

I love all of my classes so far. I am really interested in everything about each of my classes now and so my homework is almost fun for me. I don't have to force myself to do anything because I like to do what I am doing. They are all so rewarding, especially volleyball. I am helping coach the volleyball team at the Academy of the New Church (high school). This is so fun because I get to do something that I like, stay in reletively good shape and teach others about something that I love so much. They just had their first game and did really well. They lost but altogether they played as a team which is one of the most important things about playing on a team. The mistakes that they made in the game were all sorted out in our practice today. It was really fun.

I am working on getting the four people that I sung with for Charterday together to go out to dinner. Even thought it was a long time ago. They head of Marketing at Bryn Athyn College is taking us to whatever restaurant we want to in Philadelphia. I think we are planning to go to Tangerine which is one of Stephen Star's restaurant. I am really excited for that, it is going to be a blast.

Another thing that is happening this weekend is the first Friday in Philadelphia. This is where all the museums open up at night and are all free. There is a small group going to do that tomorrow night. And on Saturday some people from the college are going to NYC for the day. The school is paying for a lot of the cost of the trip too. I wanted to go but I am going to go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra on Saturday night. I thought about coming back early but decided that would be too much work, and traveling back to Philly by myself from NYC sounded boring.

Oh, we just found out tonight that the men's dorm is hosting a big Christmas party for the women's dorm. We get to get all dressed up and go over the the men's dorm and eat some amazing catered food (from a place called Always Cafe, and it is really good).

Those are just some of the cool Christmas things that are going on at the Bryn Athyn College. And as always, if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask.

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