The Red Hunting Cap

Joke from Traditions told by one of my favorite seniors: "Two psychiatrists were walking down the street. One turns to the other and says, 'You're ok. How am I? ' " Hope you get it.

Hello again. Amelia here. I'd like to preface this by saying that the camera is Yana's and therefore I cannot take as many pictures. Also I think my writing balances it out. Also, I adhered to the snack schedule, so you're welcome Yana who thought I couldn't do it. So, on Sunday we went to multiple paint stores to look for that special Benjamin Moore paint we need for the mural. We finally found it in Wellesley (a store called Something Green (not the actual name, just how we remember it)). There was a nice store guy (shoutout to Chris from North Carolina) who helped us choose the paint and carried it to our car and said y'all a lot, so we asked if he was from ~the South~ like our only fan KR (more on him later). He admitted that he was. Anyways, here are the many things we learned, both today (actually muraling) and yesterday (just shopping). 1. Paint is super expensive. Originally, Ms. Snow gave us an 100 dollar budget for mural supplies. Turns out like one ga...

We’re writing this blog post a whole business week after the actual muraling (don't blame us, we're new to this whole blogging thing) , so we don’t totally remember everything that happened. But here’s what we do remember: Apparently Yana takes the snack schedule very seriously (residual trauma from the intense Mock Trial snack schedule) and so Amelia has to bring “food” next time. The school field is a great place for a picnic, although random joggers will judge you. Some backstory: we’ve been planning to have a picnic at the school for the past two years, but we never actually got around to doing it. Until now. Pro tip: a rigorous snack schedule + being at the school until 10pm are the secret ingredients to making a school picnic.   The school is a great place for a photoshoot (see below) After 20 hours of work, we’re finally almost done with sketching out the mural on the wall, which is nice. Plus it actually looks surprisingly decent, which is also very nice. Now ...

Hello people. Welcome to our blog. So... the background: earlier this year, Ms. Snow (English teacher) + Ms. Latimer (Art teacher) + Ms. O'Connell (Art teacher) proposed a competition, whereby any student could submit a proposal for a new mural in the English wing and they would choose the best design. We thought, "oh ok, this could be fun," and so we created a design, drew a sketch, typed up a writeup (started a writeup the night before and finished the block before, don't tell) and submitted the whole thing. The prompt was to "design a mural based on quotes from books." We both love C atcher in the Rye , so naturally our mural is based on Catcher. Here's the quote we used: “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around, nobody big, I mean—except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if...