Getting into the swing of things- First Trimester and On Hall-Programs

With already three weeks behind us at NCSSM, 1st Trimester underway, and the first tests and essays of the year being assigned, Hall programs are a great way to balance schoolwork with fun, social, stimulating activities on the hall.  First Hunt has a planned program of some sort nearly every day- whether its a trip to the gym to play Dodgeball, a game of cards, or a sleepover in the Main Hall lounge.  Throughout the week, First Hunt, in addition, bonds through a variety of other activities.  IM Games, Hall Food, and hanging out together in the lounges are among these.  

In addition, this year First Hunt is trying something new when it comes to programming.  Each week, a member of the hall will be required to plan, advertise, and execute a program of their own creation.  Last week's program was done by Noah Gavenus- where he taught members of the hall how to sign up for a fantasy football league (First Hunt has its own bracket).  

In other news, the hall is getting into both the academic and social swing of things at NCSSM.  This year's Junior and Senior classes (on hall) have bonded well as a group thus far and have been very active and successful at the Intramural Soccer Games and at school-wide events such as the amazing SMATH race, which First Hunt won this year!  

Finally, I want to introduce a way of better communicating what sorts of things First Hunt is doing specifically, so blog viewers can be more informed of the amazing things we're doing here.  In order to better relay what's happening on hall and at NCSSM in general, the blog will be updated with a program or two each week with a short write up telling a little bit about what's going on.  

For starters, a short description of a fun game on First Hunt called "3 Men on A Couch".

Three Men on a Couch.

 

Three Men on a Couch is a game where each person writes a one-line summary of a story and gives it to the leader of the game, not letting anyone see what they wrote. The leader then chooses one of the pieces of paper and each of the three guys have to create a story based on that. One of them will be true and the other two will be a lie. It is the audiences job to figure out which one is telling the truth. That evening we were enthralled with storied about "a wolf bit my shoulder" "The police chased my car and I got away" and more. Most of the stories were fairly good, some (Cole) just disregarded the chosen paper and told their original story anyway, but it was all a lot of fun.

A lot of information in this post.  But that corresponds to the large amount of things going on on First Hunt!