More Weekend Performances

Paoli won against West Washington on Friday night

Megan is the high "flyer" in this photo

Drew Owen, Megan, and Andrea Sopanaro (an exchange student from Italy)

PHS Harmony Singers' Christmas Concert

Megan and friends, Tania and Allison, in their best "Santa Baby" pose

Wow! It's been a busy weekend for everyone! Here are a few more performance pics.

Mort's Christmas Concert

The Greenfield Community Choir sang the first half of the Messiah, then several traditional Christmas songs after the intermission. MORT HAD A SOLO!! AGAIN!!!! He never tells me anything and he was just going to let me find out when it happened but someone else in the choir was asking how the 'soloist' was. Carrie& Joe and kids plus the Ray & Becky with grandma Pohland and grandma & grandpa Stroh (Becky's parents) all came. Of course, we are not the host like Carrie and Joe are. We feed no one (unless you count all the cookies that were there).

A Very Harris Christmas

After weeks of studying, hours spent in the Reynolds Club (also known as the Great Hall of Hogwarts), and a diet consisting of nothing but take-out for days on end, I am done with my first quarter of graduate school! Studying was surprisingly fun, as everyone I knew had the same tests and so we were all stuck trying to learn 10 weeks worth of material in about three days together. That, and the Midway ice rink opened right after Thanksgiving, which made for very pleasant study breaks. Especially since it is free, and about 30 yards from my school.

Leslie, Christine, James, Francisco and Dalmar
working hard in the Reynolds Club.

But now finals are over and we've got about six inches of snow on the ground. Life is pretty good. I'm not sure how I actually did on any of my tests, but am fairly certain, at least, that none of them were failed. Everyone in my class (just about, anyway) was done with everything by Wednesday evening, so we got together for an end-of-quarter holiday celebration at my buddy Elise's flat up in Lincoln Park. It was a great time, and nice to be done with everything school-related for the first time since moving up here.

Leslie, me, Christine, Meg, Meredith, Elise and
Angie at the (un)official Harris Holiday Party.

I'll be up here in the Windy City for another week or two, taking care of friends' plants and cars, mostly. But I am really excited to head south and see everyone in Paoli for Christmas!!

Katie Day 12--8-07

Katie sings "No Wonder We Call Them Wise Men". She did an excellent job, I was just awestruck.










Kyle peeking at Katie backstage.










Emily, Nikki and Kyle ready for Katie Riley Day.








"She's Like The Wind" Hip Hop Dance
















Katie's liturgical dance to "No Wonder We Call Them Wise Men"

Holland Dr - ready for what comes next

View from the north window... TV in living room ...ready for cable

South corner of lot

University of Chicago Kickball (almost) Champions!!

Our team lost in the last game... we blame it on having sat throught 3.5 hours of economics lecture directly beforehand. Plus, it was really, really cold.

But check it out -- we play our intramural sports on Stagg Field: THE football stadium. Not quite The Rock, obviously...

(Bit o' trivia: Stagg Field is the site where the world's first sustained nuclear reaction took place. That's right -- this school is so nerdy they run science experiments on the athletic fields.)

Who is this girl?