House Happenings - February Edition

Erick was in NYC with his family, DR and Jake in Bridgeport, and Jayden in Boston with his mom.

Jake and Erick had fencing competitions on Jan 6^th at Cheshire, Jan 9^th at home, January 10^th at North Haven, Jan 14^th vs North Branford, January 17^th at Morgan, Jan 20^th vs Fairfield, Jan 23^rd vs Cheshire Academy, January 24^th at North Haven, Jan 27^th vs Guilford and January 29^th at Cheshire Academy.  Erick rec’d some press for his efforts:

Jayden had indoor track, a much more abbreviated schedule compared to fencing, with a meet at Yale the weekend of Jan 9^th and 10^th and a meet at The Floyd Little Athletic Center on Jan 12^th.  The Yale meet was in a beautiful but CROWDED facility.

DR continued to do off season lifting with the football team.  He also had a Freshmen Football Team banquet on January 28^th.

Jake had a few debate team meets, and also a Model UN event at Yale from Jan 15^th-18^th.  The final day was cut short due to the snow storm.

Jake has also started SAT Prep with Billy Calder, a new volunteer to the program.

The house attended the VIBE cabaret on Jan 10^th.  Mission accomplished as the event piqued DR’s interest enough that he plans to try out for next year.

On Jan 12^th, Jake’s Host Family (Matt, Aviva and Noah) joined us for dinner and on Jan 15^th, Steph Carbone also joined us. 

On Jan 13^th, Jean joined us for dinner and assisted the fellas with their course selections.

Thank you, Chris, for covering the house for Darrin and I on Jan 22^rd.  Even though we were unable to take our planned long weekend trip to Myrtle Beach due to the weather, we decided, instead to go visit our Son, Kaleb at Stonehill College.

We’d like to give an extra special thank you to our host families.  Besides the warm welcome they give the guys each month, they also extended their stays by an additional night with them the weekend of Jan 23-25 due to the timing of the snow storm on Jan 25^th.

We’d also like to thank Madison Neighbors for the February ‘cover’ and article of our ‘family.’  Hopefully this exposure will increase interest both voluntarily and financially from the greater Madison community.