Senior Trip

Dear Seniors and Parents:

I'm willing to help facilitate a trip to NY for the FSP Senior Class. I'm looking for your ideas of what you would like to do while in NY. I checked into the Wicked show, but it was sold out into July. Beauty & The Beast is a fantastic show! Steve & I saw it on Broadway and it was so much better than the one that came recently to the National theatre. So let me know if you’d like to see that show.(We would need to order ASAP I’m shooting for Thursday 1/5 if NY is a go). The dates we are looking to go are Friday April 27th-Saturday April 28t. The dates were chosen to be after the Godspell show for obvious reasons plus a weekend that had no other CLC family meeting, 10:31 meetings and avoids Spring breaks of CLC & MC, which after all that didn’t leave many options left.

One idea is to leave Friday afternoon after 3pm travel to Red Bank, NJ (~4 hours )or thereabouts(staying in NJ would keep hotel costs down). We could have dinner on the boardwalk or in red bank (lots of good restaurants there) take a walk on a Jersey boardwalk or beach. In the morning, we could take the Red Bank train into the city. We would arrive around 10Am see NY for about 3 hours. Travel groups could be formed around desired itineraries. At 2PM we could catch the matinee Broadway show of Beauty & the Beast ($85 premium seats, $60 rear Mezzanine, $40 too far away to see). There could be an optional itinerary for those not wanting to see Beauty & the Beast. We could meet for dinner at 5P in NY or take the train back & have dinner at Broadway Burgers in Red bank before heading back home, arriving in Gaithersburg around 1AM. We are trying to keep this cost to be less than $190. We are still looking into transportation options. The vans at CLC are not available. Got any ideas?

So what I need to hear form you on is: Do you want to NY? If so, how many parents would be going? If NY is not where you would like to go, please give me some other ideas that include no more than I night away (Friday-Sat.) & cost less than $180 per person. I'm hoping to get your feedback on the above ideas by this Monday 1/23/07. I'm assuming the objectives are to do a memorable event together plus have FUN and of course be open to whatever God’s agenda may be! You could e-mail me privately (YWyzga@comcast.net)if you prefer not to comment on this Blog.

Looking forward to your responses,
Mrs.Wyzga :)

A new speaker...

Okay guys, we're back to soliciting your ideas about your graduation speaker. We'd like everyone to post again regarding your top choices for speaker. We definitely will need to get on this as soon as we're able. Looking forward to seeing your choices! Mrs. Hoover

Don't forget, some potential choices could include Mark Dever, Al Mohler, John Piper, Chip Grange, Bob Donahue, or Mark Altrogee; here's a rule of thumb, though: in your list, feel free to reach for the stars (i.e Al Mohler) but give at least one that's not quite so lofty (i.e. Mark Altrogee).

Class Rings

Hey guys, just a question to throw out to you: who would be interested in getting class rings? (I'm asking for my mom, so I have no idea what it would involve, but in theory, wouldy you like to have class rings?)

Let me clarify: a class ring is a special ring that the entire class would get at graduation that would have our class on it (think a Super Bowl ring). It's just a memento that we could have.

More about Broadway (Mary Poppins!)

First, just so everyone knows, nothing is set in stone yet. We may or may not be going to New York or Broadway, this is purely conjectural at this point.

So, having done some topical research, I have determined that all the shows we are interested in are around $110 for a ticket. If we have a group of 15 or more, though, we can get a major discount. So, here are the shows that are still in contention (in no particular order):

• Beauty and the Beast
• The Lion King
• Wicked

It seems that, by popular vote, no one wants to go to Tarzan, and I just found out that Fiddler on the Roof is leaving Broadway in November.

However, I have also just found out that Mary Poppins will be debuting in November, and it looks really good as well. So that's another show that could be a possibility.

Also, for all of you who want to go see The Lion King, I must warn you that there is one part that has some very sensual dancing in outfits that make the dancers look almost nude. The part is only about two or three minutes long, but it is a problem, and might mean that we won't be able to go see it.

Finally, for anyone with concerns about Wicked, I have talked with several people who have seen it and they have told me that it is completely clean, and does not portray good as evil and evil as good, as the title might suggest. Instead, it merely states that the story has been mistold for generations, and the Wicked Witch was actually the good character. If anyone has Mr. Cairns' email address, he has seen it and I would like to get his opinion on it.

So these are all things to keep in mind as we're considering which show we'd like to see (and remember, it's all hypothetical at this point).

Broadway

Hey everyone,

So if we end up going to New York, we'll probably be going to see a Broadway show. And if we got to see a Broadway show, we'll have to buy the tickets extremely far in advance. So here's my question to you: what show would you like to see? Here are the ones that I'm aware of that will be playing in April/May/June (when we'll be taking the trip) that we could actually go see:

• The Phantom of the Opera
• Fiddler on the Roof
• The Lion King
• Beauty and the Beast
• Tarzan

Les Miserables will be coming back to Broadway for a six-month run, but the run ends in March, so we wouldn't be able to see it.

And for all of you people who can't believe I just put Beauty and the Beast on that list, let me add that, like Lion King, it is one of those shows that loses it's childish stigma when it enters the Broadway stage and is supposed to be absolutely fabulous. If I missed any shows that are viable options, mention them in the comments.

What would you like to see?

Oops, I guess we need to vote YET AGAIN

Well, it turns out that my mom and I had a misunderstanding when I posted the choices, so I left out the most important one. So here are the new choices, please recast your vote again according to these new choices.

#1: Gold for everyone

#2: Black for the guys, white for the girls

#3: A special mixed black-and-white tassel for everyone (this is where the misunderstanding came from)

So please recast your vote one more time, please. (By the way, gold was the winner last time by a vote of 10-8)

Tassel vote, UPDATED

My mom realized that she didn't provide as many choices as were available. So here are the updated choices (the only real goal is to have all the boys pick a color and all the girls pick a color):

#1: Gold tassels for everybody

#2: Gold tassels for the boys, white tassels for the girls

#3: Black tassels for the boys, gold tassels for the girls

#4: Black tassels for the boys, white tassels for the girls

#5: White tassels for the boys, black tassels for the girls

So please recast your vote according to these choices. Thanks!

Official Speaker Votes

Okay everyone, please post with your name and just your speaker choice (please, no additional comments). Let's try to get some concensus going here on who you would want to speak at your graduation. Some great names have been mentioned since Mr. Mahaney isn't available, and the likelihood of Al Mohler and John Piper coming in is sketchy at best. Here's who some of you are nominating: Steve Shank, Dave Harvey, Mark Altrogge, Mr. Veith (Sam's favorite choice), & Bob Donohue. Anyone else? Give compelling reasons. Let's try to hear from as many of you as possible....and the sooner the better!

Mrs. H.

Mr. Mahaney is out :-(

Hi Everyone,

I've got a couple of items I need to let you know about:

1) I've been in touch with Mr. Mahaney's office with the invitation to speak at the graduation. I figured I'd better ask sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, he has had to decline, but he was very honored to be asked.

2) While you all are discussing the senior trip, I need to let you know that the final decision to even take a trip is with all the parents. The parents will need to discuss the whole idea before a final decision is made.

Graduation Speaker

Okay guys, we talked about this at the meeting, so here's what we'd like you to tell us:

• Give us your three choices for your graduation speaker and why.
• Should we do a senior trip or several special activities throughout the year? Whichever you choose, give us your ideas for trips and/or activities.
• Do the girls want white or black graduation gowns? (sorry guys, you all get black, hope you're not disappointed)