Every year upperclassmen have the option to be big sibs to incoming freshmen and leave little gifts outside their doors for a week before revealing themselves on Friday at house tea. This year I decided to participate and got a lovely girl named Carmen from Connecticut as my little sib. To celebrate the week of fun and surprises I gave her two sea shells with butterflies painted that would be her tickets to a Sunday morning secret adventure. A local butterfly conservatory that I have always wanted to go to was releasing hundreds of monarchs for their yearly migration and so Carmen and her friend Denise came with! Magic Wings is located in Deerfield about 20 minutes away from campus and house over 8,000 species of butterflies and a random assortment of insects, birds and reptiles.
As for the apples, yesterday was Mountain Day at Smith which means that the illustrious President Carol Christ declared a day off from school for students and faculty to enjoy a beautiful NE fall day. The Smith tradition is to drive to Outlook Farm and pick apples with your house and come back and bake pies, apple sauce and dumplings. I went with my old house (Capen) instead of Chapin house because I still have a big group of friends there who are also graduating this year. Around 10 we also followed another tradition specific to Capen house and played a midnight game of capture the flag complete with wacky outfits and wigs. I of course could not compete but was given the responsibility of ref-hood which was a total power trip. I gave one team four points off for the hell of it because they were dragging their jail pad closer to the mid field line. Stupid freshmen...
3 days until fall recess yayy!
Don Kaplan and I just enjoyed ref-hood at field day. What joy!
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