Snow Globe Making

Today was a pretty usual Monday. I was done with classes by noon. After classes, I went to the last sign language club meeting of the semester. For the last meeting, we had a Holiday party and had lots of junk food to eat :) When I got back to my room, I did my laundry which took forever because there were no dryers open once my laundry was through the washing cycle. I hung out a little bit, then went to Stop & Shop to get some things that I needed. I got back to my room and decided I wanted to get some of my Music paper out of the way. I got a good 4 pages written and decided that would be a good place to stop for the night. At 8:30 a few of us went to a program in the main lounge to make snow globes! We used baby food jars, water, laundry detergent, and glitter to make them. They provided us with frogs to put in the snow globes, but I decided to use an old fashioned key that I had lying around in my room. It is not your typical snow globe, but it's still pretty cool :)

Back to December

Today was a very relaxing day. A full day in the city really tired me out, so it was nice to have time just to hang out. All day I watched movies including Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the end of It's a Wonderful Life, and Titanic. Titanic is a 3 hour long movie..so it took up most of my day. At 8:00, Carly, Allison, and I went to McKenna Theater to see Katelyn perform in the Choral Ensembles Concert. It was nice to see the choral groups on campus and in the community. All of the musical performances were great! One student played a Chinese instrument in accompaniment with one of the choral groups and I actually recognized it from my world music class that I am taking this semester. It was neat to be able to recognize it. Anyways, I'm hoping to make hot chocolate soon and watch a Christmas movie :) Here is a picture from the concert..I was only able to take one because my camera died, so it isn't the best, but it'll have to do.

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Christmastime in the City

Today my suitemates and I went to the city! We had such a great time doing lots of fun things! First, a few of us went ice skating at Bryant Park. I've always wanted to ice skate in the city and I'm so glad that we ended up going. At first we weren't sure if we would because the line seemed really long, but it was only a very short wait before we were able to skate. We ate lunch and then went to Chelsea Market! The market was really neat and beautifully decorated for the holidays. We then headed to Times Square and shopped in the new Forever 21 for a couple of hours. The store has 4 different floors filled with clothes. I ended up buying a blue sweater and a multicolored scarf. I can't wait to wear them! After that we went to the Stardust Diner for dinner. We had to wait around 40 minutes to actually get in the place, but it was worth it! The diner's wait staff are actors and actresses who are practicing to be in Broadway musicals. They are constantly performing and singing to the customers and it was a lot of fun! At the end of our trip we went to Rockefeller Center to see the Christmas tree :) That was probably my favorite part of the day. Here are some of the better pictures we took.

Chelsea Market

Ice Skating at Bryant Park

Christmas Tree in Rockefeller Center