Welcome to the Alps!

Welcome to the Alps, or the hall more commonly known as Judson 400!  We are so excited for all 40 of you to move in we can hardly handle it!  The “we” I’m referring to is your hall staff: I’m your RA, Julie Twardzik, and your three FRADs are Brooke Norris, Kara Barlow, and Theresa Jansen.  We’re just here to make sure that your freshman year is fabulous! 

Our hall theme this year is “The Alps” and you may be thinking, “What is a theme and what do I have to do?”  Well, a theme is kind of like our team name for our hall and our brother hall, Chiles 200, for O-Week.  Our hall will be decorated like the Alps and we’ll come up with Alp-y cheers and fun stuff like that.  And what do you have to do?  HAVE FUN!  That’s what O-Week is all about.

The possibilities are endless for the Alps: mountain sports (hiking, biking, skiing, fishing), tourists, Sound of Music, etc.  Oh, and watch the Sound of Music if you’ve never seen it!

Think:  FABULOUS.  Think: yodeling.  Think: hiking.  Think: lederhosen.

Okay, well don’t go out and buy lederhosen if you don’t want to, but feel free!  We’ll post fun costume ideas here, and if you want to contribute, please do!

Also, we’ll post some cheers so you can get a head start.  These cheers will clinch our O-Week win!  (We may not win O-Week, but we’ll have so much fun regardless!)  Oh, and please make up catchy cheers—we will use them!

The point of O-Week is to get to know each other and to have fun.  We’re all about fun! 

If you have any questions, post them on the post labeled “Questions About Everything” and one of us will try to answer it ASAP (we’re all busy this summer, so don’t hate us if it takes a few days).  Also, I asked my residents this year if they could tell me what they wish they had known or brought and other helpful things so check that out too.  It’s under “Wisdom That May Be Helpful.”  I added some stuff in there too. 

Enjoy!