Home for the Holidays

I hope everyone is enjoying being home as much as I do! I miss Siena though :-D...its good seeing friends and when your back home with your parents you realized that you can't hang out until the wee hours of the morning...kind of sucks. Anyway, just wanted to say hi and I hope everyone has a wonderful new year! see you in January!

Abrupt Ending

    It has been a little crazy the past few days.  From finals being pushed back, losing electricity, and being homeless from Hines I think sending us home was a good idea.  But now what is going to happen? I guess we'll wait and see what they decide to do about the finals that weren't taken.  I'm still in Hines, and its 4:40 on Saturday. I'm packing up all my belongings and heading to my brothers apartment for a a few days until he is done with finals and ready to go home.  I hope you all got home safely and have a fabulous break.  It has been a great first semester with Bonner.  You all are such amazing people. See you all soon 

B-Love

-Mel

F.I.N.A.L.S.

F.I.N.A.L.S. (Fine I Never Actually Learned this Stuff) -the polite form

I have been so overwhelmed and on pins and needles about finals that I have neglected to blog. I hope all is well for everyone and I feel bad for those that I had finals pushed back to sunday because of the weather. Well I am going home on Sunday! I miss my family, friends, and my cocker spaniel Tweety! :-D Good luck to everyone on finals, happy holidays and see you all in January!

Bonner Love,

Tai

Finals....

So I'm working on this paper now, but I'm really not working on it cause I've been logging hours and writing blogs and such for Bonner's which is soooo much more fun! I hope you all had fun at the party, I did!! I hope tim and Amanda enjoyed their formal!
Good luck on finals and Merry holidays to anyone i don't see!!

Last week I was at Joseph's house and a man walked in asking for help, but his english was not very good. I watched him talk to my supervisor for some time and then jumped in asking if he spoke spanish. He got VERY excited and started talking and talking to me about what was going. He was looking for a bed for an 18 year old mexican boy. Unfortunately, in the end i was not very much help at all to him, but it felt amazing to offer a service to that man that no one else in the building could have by speaking spanish.
Sometimes I think my small skills in abstract things are unhelpful, but it's times like this I realize that we need diverse people in every setting we're in. Diverse in culture, religion, skills, thought process... you know.. the whole shaBANG.

Finals

So again I come to blog with not much to blog about.

Our rugby formal was last night and that was pretty fun! I'm sorry I missed the holiday party, I was going to try to come but with my now broken foot it's pretty hard to move around campus and I try to do so as little as possible. My armpits are just about falling off by now, but atleast I only have one more day of real classes to crutch around to.

I still haven't been to Circles since before New Orleans because of my foot. I'm hoping to get back there Monday to get in another week of volunteering before finals. Other than that, Keri already mentioned to you guys about calling the Representatives about HR 4048, so PLEASE HELP US OUT and give them a call, it will be greatly appreciated!!! =]
Good luck with finals everyone!

Amanda

Christmas Party!!!

The Christmas Party was a lot of fun last night!  I'm glad everyone knows that Tai, Joe and I had the best gingerbread house ever.  I mean come on... we all know Siena beat Albany in out game! =)  I'm not gonna lie though... there was a lot of creativity and Kim had a great story line.  Anyways, wrapping presents was funnn and dinner was great.  Thanks Nicole and Judy! =)

As for everything else, life is crazy!  The little rambunctious children at the Boys and Girls Club are getting ready for our Christmas show.  My group is doing a dance presentation.  I am helping them out, but for the most part, they are collaborating their own dance.  This show is instilling the ideas of Christmas being right around the corner and they are all beginning to get wild!

Finals and final papers are driving me crazy!  I have a lot due on Monday but then I have quite a bit of free time next week so I think I will probably going to my site.  On a good note, I was able to really talk up Bonner yesterday when I gave a tour.  It was my first tour and the students seemed VERY interested in it.  I think we will be looking forward to many many applications coming in next week!

Well I'm outttt.  Off to class.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

BoNNer LoVe

Aprillll

Hey all,
Hope everyone had a really good Thanksgiving!! Mine was amazing. It was soo great seeing my family again and eating REAL FOOD! I think I ate enough to hold me over for these two weeks until I go home again :-P
Things at Two Together have been going really well. This Thursday we are having a little Christmas party for the kids since it will be the last time we see them until after break. I'm going to miss not having them as a part of my week to look forward.
Buuut I am pumped about this whole christmas party... Ginger bread houses??! I have this one in the bag! :-D Can't wait to see everyone!

B-Love
Stephanie

albany med

So this week I was able to finalize my class schedule and my volunteering schedule for next semester. I will be volunteering and Albany Medical Center and for now I am volunteering one day at the ultrasound department and the other day in the ER. I am pretty excited and I am pretty sure I will have a chance to see some crazy things.
Also just a reminder: On monday and tuesday (the 8th and 9th) Amanda and I will be calling into our local representatives offices and emailing them asking for their support and vote for the gulf coast civic works act. It would be great if some more bonners and siena students could call to. All the information is in the email I sent out and just in case you deleted it I will send out another email on sunday. Good Luck on all your finals!!!