September RA social event

Another really good photo of my RA team!

front row: Kelly, Jenna, and Julie
back row: Jon, Bryce, Josh, me, and Ashley

Once a month I do a social event with my RA staff - partly because I really enjoy doing fun things with them and partly because it is a good way to model the community enhancing benefits of good programming on their floors. For September I decided to take them to Winona Lake, IN to a place called the Pottery Bayou. I had been there back in February with my friend Rebecca and really enjoyed it, so I decided to take my staff there for our first social event of the year.

Kelly, Jenna, and Ashley

I decided instead of letting them choose which piece of pottery they wanted to paint that we would each paint a dinner plate and that would be the plate we use all year for our weekly RA dinners. We had such a fun time! It was fun to see the creativity come out of each person - some were very symmetrical in their design while others were quite abstract and outside the box. Here are some photos. of the plates (they are supposed to be more vivid in their colors once the glaze is put on and they are fired in the oven)..

Jon, Bryce (the captain of our basketball team), and Josh's plates

Kelly, Ashley, and Jenna's plates

Julie and my plates