My Thanksgiving dinner was amazing this year. A couple of my friends and I got together and cooked again. I guess we haven't learned from our mistakes last year because the turkey was pretty dried just like the year before. Besides that, we had a blast.

Turkey day was the highlight of my week. As for the other days of this week, I spent it working on my projects. I'm in Photography class and our final project is to shoot a theme of our choice. My theme is to convey words through my pictures. So I scheduled a photo shoot with a friend of mine for Thanksgiving Day to do it but I forgot to buy films. Knowing that nothing would be open; my only option was to search for the films at grocery stores. They had all sorts of film, except for the one I needed. I should have thought ahead. Now I have to find another day to do it, and times are running out.

I auditioned to be in this year's theater show, and Professor Ronis finally sent me an email informing me of the roles I got. I'm really excited. I get to play an angry customer causing a fuss at the DVM, a romantic guy in a foreign shop trying to woe a foreign woman and lastly, I will be in a skit called "the Restaurant Sketch" from Monty the Python. I have no problem at being angry, but being romantic--I really need to do a lot of work on that. As for Monty the Python, well I've never understood the show, so that will be the biggest challenge for me. How am I supposed to be funny when I don't get the joke myself?

A few pictures from the dinner...

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This is exciting, my first blog post! Is this where I'm supposed to introduce myself? Don't worry; I won't bore you with my whole life story. My name is Hau Le but most people know me as Howie. I'm a sophomore at Champlain College studying in Graphic Designs & Digital Media. I'm originally from southern Vietnam and I've been a resident in the United States since 1990.

Now that the introduction part is over with, let's talk about vacation. Oh yes, vacation! It’s coming up in less than a week and I can't wait. I'll get to make another attempt at cooking a turkey. Last year wasn't great; the turkey was dried and burnt. Any tips? Tent city is happening this week; I wonder how all my friends are doing in the cold. Tent city is a week long, campus wide event that happens once a year to raise awareness and money for the hungers and the homelessness. During this week, volunteered students will sleep outside in a tent, they gave up all their luxuries (cell phones, laptop, cars, makeup, you get the idea), they’ll get two meals a day which consists of basically just bread and broth, and lastly, they'll have to beg for money (which will be donated to COTs). It's harder than it seems. I was a part in planning it this year, but I didn't commit to sleeping outside in the courtyard. So far this week, I've gone to all of the educational activities and brought them donuts. I just wish I could do more. How hard is it to buy donuts compared to what they're doing? Do you think you can do it?

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