Houseparent Nicole Hapeman and her advisees went to Bombers for dinner on Wednesday. They could not wait for this exciting event because they had planned this trip since the beginning of the year. They had big burritos, tacos, tofu fries, fries, and soda. Eating nice food and talking happily released their stress of the day. [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Activity’
November 10, 2009
Peer-Ed Retreat
Over this past weekend, the Peer Educator group of the ’09-’10 academic year took their annual retreat to a group member’s beautiful home just a half an hour away from Mt. Ida. The Peer Ed group, whose mission is to ensure a safe, comfortable, and well-educated community, completed many team building activities, as well as [...]
November 10, 2009
Care to Tango?
Jorge Torres, a world-renowned tango artist, came on campus for a day full of Tango last Saturday. The dancing began in the afternoon with three workshops for achieving balance in Tango, Vals, and Milonga. At night, a social event sponsored by the Emma Willard Dance Company put the dancing in full motion with Dance Company performances and social tango for [...]
November 8, 2009
Biology Field Trip to The Wild Center
Students who take Biology left school early in the morning on November 6. They went to the Wild Center in Tupper Lake. After three hours on the bus, they arrived at the Wild Center with joy and excitement. Students learned a lot through experiencing three different activities. First, they watched a short movie that introduced them to [...]
November 8, 2009
FASO coffee house
On Friday, FASO held a fun cultural coffee house where students from different countries show their unique abilities. There were performances such as Thai dances, Chinese songs, English songs, Chinese traditional instrument, Bolivian dances, a Hong Kong skit, and fashion show. In the end, all the FASO members sang the song “It’s a Small World” [...]
November 4, 2009
What are you?
This question is more complicated than it sounds, especially for a multiracial person like Kip Fulbeck, who is both Chinese and American. The first in this year’s Serving & Shaping Her World Speakers Series, Fulbeck, a slam poet/filmmaker/author extraordinaire came to Emma Willard today to explain his Hapa Project in which he photographed different kinds of people related only by [...]
November 3, 2009
Proctor retreat
Proctors are seniors who are selected to lead, support, inspire, and guide the student body through the academic year. As part of their training, they recently participated in a retreat where they bonded as a group and learned techniques for helping fellow students.
Photo by Maureen Harrison.
November 1, 2009
Race for Hepatitis C
On a not to hot, not too cold “perfect day for running” this morning on November 1, the Emma Willard community, along with local people and friends and family of honoree Betsy Lamoreaux, came together to race for Hepatitis C around our campus. The 5K race included race participants who ran and walked the race supported by many student and [...]
October 30, 2009
Fair Trade Chocolate Sale
On Halloween, the community service Fair Trade sold chocolate during lunch outside the dining hall. Fair Trade is a nonprofit community service that sells traded coffee, chocolate, tea, and hot cocoa to provide a way for students and faculty to help with creating an equal market. Students and faculty could also place an order [...]
October 30, 2009
Halloween at Emma
It’s the EMMA HALLOWEEN! This year was special because it happened on Thursday. Students got the chance to take a wonderful break in the middle of the academic week. The very first exciting thing was, of course, the dressing up. We had people from cartoon characters to movies stars, daily life objects to videos games, [...]
