Thank you to Brian Whittier for these recent soccer shots. Here are the latest sports updates:
CROSS-COUNTRY: The team will be heading to Charlotte on Thursday after school in preparation for the state meet on Friday.
TENNIS: 6 girls will head to Wilmington on Thursday after school in preparation for the state championship event on Friday. This team finished 2nd in the conference--the highest of any CFS tennis team.
VOLLEYBALL: The varsity team was selected as the #7 seed in the state tournament and will host a match tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5:00.
SOCCER: The team is hosting a quarterfinal match against Caldwell Academy at 4:00 tomorrow. It is supposed to be a beautiful day. Come on out and cheer for our teams!
ETHICS BOWL: Our Ethics Bowl team, supervised by Jamie Hysjulien, headed to Moorsetown Friends School in Moorsetown, NJ, this past weekend to participate in the Bioethics Bowl. They won their first two competitions and finished a close second in their final competition. Congratulations to Jamie and his great team of debaters!
HALLOWEEN CHANGES: Due to the disappearance of so many athletes this Friday, we have decided to alter our Halloween plans. We will hold our Pumpkin Carving contest on Friday, as planned. Our big Halloween celebration and costume contest have been moved to Monday. Students should wear costumes on Monday, the actual day of Halloween.
END-OF-YEAR PROGRAM SELECTION: We announced to students today that our off-campus End-of-Year experiences will be to the Galapagos Islands, Nicaragua, Trinidad, the Adirondacks, and out west to the Havasupai Reservation and the Grand Canyon. Locally, we will offer a local service experience and the Senior Banquet. Students also have the opportunity to plan their own internship experience. More to come about this process.
EXCERPTS FROM AMLIT
The students in Elise's American Literature class are reading Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Their most recent assignment, which was due today, was to write a description of CFS in Capote's style. What fun! I couldn't resist getting my hands on some of these pieces to share with you. I am not free, at this time, to let you know who wrote each of these Capote-like excerpts, which are designated by a change in font. Enjoy!
Friends School, pieced together by time and elbow grease is that of a summer shed, merely expanded to become that of a series of wooden based buildings. The simplistic, green; (but not in color) steps lead to the inviting, inimitable CFS sign. You have a name, she has a name, so does he, and respect has nothing to do with age. Friends have something to learn, something to teach, and something to merely express. The individual, comfortable walls that make each room its own, integrate with the couches, the paintings, the smell of freshly squeezed earth. Where food is sold, innocence is the currency. Where the music is made, soul is the key. Chairs, rocking chairs, couches, benches, stools, and ground. All places to reflect, all places to learn.
Twenty-one faux wooden steps lead to a quirkily-lovable log cabin that obviously would fail a fire code inspection. The steps are an awkward height: short enough to overstep and trip, but not sufficiently low to easily skip one. Whether as a well-traveled pathway, a lunch table, or a homework lounge, the steps are the center of the community. They have supported thousands of feet--bare feet, Ugg-snuggled feet, feet in Coverses, Keds, hiking boots, flip-flops, four-inch heels, cleats, basketball shoes, cowgirl boots, and even a few clad in duct tape.
Carolina Friends School is not for the faint-of-heart. When entering the grounds of the school, you are greeted by the strongly delicate trees whose leaves blossom a beautiful color some would call periwinkle-cream. Continuing past the trees, and the soccer field, usually shared by soccer players, Frisbee pros, and the birds and the bees, the middle school and elementary school of minuscule sizes loom on your left, and soon the traveler finally arrives at the "life of the party" the public knows as the upper school.
The old main building is an imposing structure, its large set of steep grey steps makes it seem far away, almost unreachable, to a newcomer. The regulars, however, are so used to these steps that they barely give them a glance before beginning to trudge up them at the beginning of the school day. Occasionally referred to as the "log cabin," the once natural colored, elderly building now has a coat of dull grey paint that only serves to age the building further. The grey gives the building an institutional, jail-like feel that is only off-set by the empathetic feelings brought out of the viewer by its slightly shriveled stature.
I wish I had time to share more, but I am off to Junior Night. Take a look at the moon. It's a tiny sliver. Beautiful!
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