What JAUVONNIE is feeling

EVERYBODY DON'T SAY GOOD BYE. because that good bye word just killes me. But any way i miss all of you guys i would say that the semester is ok, I'm am the only black girl in my wenesdays classes it kinda hard because you guys was just so welcome. But it's different with out ya'll. I am around a whole new group of people and it don't feel right, i feel out of place at times but i guess that's how it is. uh but what i'm really trying to ask is can my bridge bubbies give me some words. ( feeling alone):-(

Remember?

Hey, folks!

How is everyone? I hope your semesters are all off to a good start. Remember, I promised you a free lunch if you come by my office to catch up. Send me an email, and we'll pick a time.

Hope to see you soon.
Danielle

I MISS YALL

Goodbye, everyone!

Hey, folks!

I just read through all of your goodbye messages, and I'm sad that I won't be there to say goodbye in person. However, I'm very happy to see that you are the group that made it until the end. You all deserve it!

Good luck on tomorrow's artistic translation projects. I wish I could see them! If you can, post photographs/videos/etc. on the blog.

Starting next week, I'll be back on campus. My office is 623 S. Wabash, suite 600. I'm in the LAS Dean's suite. Please don't hesitate to come see me, especially if you're on campus early. Remember, if you come visit me and tell me how your semester is going, I'll buy lunch. :) I'm also leaving my email address and my office phone number. Call or email me for anything.

Enjoy the next couple weeks, and I look forward to seeing all of you in September; you'll be Columbia College students!

Best,
Danielle
daquiline@colum.edu
312-369-8842

good bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well goodbye blogger on to bigger and better things was cool having my friends comment and let me know how they felt about how I felt. The bridge program was so cool had a great time and also learned more then what I expected. So just say thanks to my teachers for teaching me a lot so that I will be able to be ready for college . also the bridge program made me less dependent on my family and now I can finally say I am an adult . And the lectures were cool also … but what I liked more was the post lectures in class So to me the bridge program helped me a lot and I feel like have a upper hand in to being ready for college so I wish my friends the best in life thanks everyone.

peace in the middle east!

dayyyyummmmmmmmm! this classss! every person in this class is a real person in my eyes. You guys have been reall cool to mee for theses 4 weeks, and im glad i can say that i was appart of your guys group. This class has talked about some personal stuff, i think that kinda forced everyone to respect everybody in the class right away, and thats awsome becuase we dont even know theses people, but we sat down and expressed deep thoughts and we had deep conversations, and we all kept it real and theres nothing better than feeling you could be yourself a 100 percent around people you just met. And as for Steve and Danelle you guys are freakin great! two of the most intelegant people ive met, and you guys defenatly know how to connect with a stranger, and i hope one day to have that skill, but yeaaa im going to look for your guyes name at orentation!

but but but salt is still the shit

CJ says fairwell but not goodbye

Coming into bridge i did not know what to expect. I was uneasy and unsure if I would make it past the first week but still, I came in with an open mind. I was greeted by people with similar fears and understanding teachers. I am happy to say that I have made so many new friends here and I honestly hope that these friendships will last not just throught our time at Columbia, but for a life time. I am honestly glad to have met each and every one of you and I do sincerly hope that we keep in touch over these years. I think we should all make it a point to chill together as often as we can. I love all of you guys and I will miss those of you that I will not see as often. Take care. I wish all of you nothing but the best and the utmost success.

much love,

CJ

The end

Bridge you are a nice young lady who gives your man everything then with the quickness leaves him only for him to realize that he can fall for anything and need to go into his future relationships better. After all you were the first girl he treated with respect, patience, and passion. Now he has to think back on all the other girls he treated bad but what you gave him before you left was the love for girls like you and treat those girls forever how he treated you before he's left in the dust again.
I guess I'm still in love with you Bridge but our relationship is over. We both knew it was only temporary. So I leave you with a 1,000 I love yous, 100 miss yous, and 1 thank you.

And Luis is the truest, C.J. is the cripple Jew, Molly is a Jo bro, Tonas is tonasty, adam is , kiki is um great, leah is m.c. hammer, teri is legendary, jasmine has passion, jauvonnie is cris breezy, and maddy is my sweet heart some time. And I'm the valedictorian FOR REAL.

Goodbye

WOW IT HAS BEEN QUITE A JOURNEY WITH YOU ALL. I am so thankful that I had a class that was family to me. You were truly family, each of you are special and unique in ways that I can't even describe. I really want to say that it was incredible getting to know everyone. I am glad that everyone was able to express who they were and that they were not afraid to show their true self's. I am definitely going to miss you guys. So take care of yourself even though this is good bye I guess we would see each other in the future and hopefully the future will come quicker than we realize. So with these last moments that we spent are coming to an end. I want you all to enjoy these moments and remember them forever. I really want to stay in touch with you so here is my facebook. www.facebook.com/mollyx3smusic and my cell is 6307708840.

So one last time I would like to say good bye. I wish you all the best and I know that you will achieve your dream on what ever it is. I love you all

Love Always.

Molly Bell

Rah Rah ah ah aaaah

Bridge:

At first I was really frustrated when I found out I had to go through bridge, but from the first day I was interested and enjoyed it that I wanted to come back. I didn't realize how much I didn't know about writing a simple paper, I don't dread writing papers anymore (for now) but I feel a bit more confident. Im glad I got to learn how to ride the metra its been real cool even though I missed it a couple of times. I'm glad we had the teachers we did, I think we had the best. The museums were really interesting I don't think I would have ever been to them. I remember when I was in grade school and we went to a museum for a field trip and when we got there all the kids in my class ran to my mom saying she would be their chaperone. So i'm thinking well its my mom I'll be with her regardless, then my teacher said "she has a large group already you'll be with my group" I was mad as heck. My mom let them get in the old fashion cars and stuff that isn't even a loud my mom was fun I knew that and everyone loved her. Thats the only museum experience I had until bridge, and the last museum made up for it. But thanks Danielle, Steve and class I learned a lot from you guys and I had fun doing it.

in case i dont see ya, good morning, good afternoon and goodnight

yeah the blog thing was a good concept i got alot better at being able to answere question right on the spot andimproved my typing. Im excited to get out of the bridge program honestly getting up at 6 in the morning to catch a train and walk all the way from union station was not on my to do list for four weeks out of my summer but it was a great experience theres alot of kool people here and i think i got alot better at writing and a little bit more prepared for college

FINAL FAIRWELL
well, this bridge program has been a good experience for me. Im so glad I met all of you, we had a lot of fun telling stupid jokes, debating and getting to know each other these past four weeks.. I'll never forget the ridiculous faces tonasty makes, salt's zombie story, or the imitations we did of each other outside after school bahahaaha.
LUV YA FOOLS! I hope we see each other next year... party at the dorms! And I want to thank steve and danielle too because they were really inspirational, I truly feel like a better writer and thinker after taking this class..
All of you are amazing people, you all have so much potential and are so smart, you will all go far and I know we will see each other soon but even so I wanna wish each of you good luck, stay golden!! LATERRR guyzz:)

what i learned

damn man what i learned in this program..... man i learned so much and made so many new ppl and funny tonas.... who had me dying laughing i couldnt breath.... man its hard to put in words man i would have to say that my english class was the best out of the whole program i had a lot of fun learning how to improve my writing....like who would have thought improving was actually fun.! and alsoi felt that my math clss was ok i mean i didnt really get the meterial at all my teacher was the kind of teacher that said here do this.... and then didint teach us anything so the math portion was really hard for me because i felt like he was going to fast and he didnt say.. step by step that needed to be done and thats the kind of person i am i need things done step by step layed out and so i felt like i didnt learn the math that i was pose to.... so0 thats what i felt like! i dont know if u guys feel the same!

Love Ya'll/Remember ME Jauvonnie/ Good Bye

Hey ya’ll it all coming to an end, I was ready for it to be over when it started but now I don’t want it to end. I have meet new friends now learn new thing. Having the blog help me release something that was on my mind and I was able to write about how I felt about the subject that was giving to us. I can say that I found out some more of who I am. I can say that being in the bridge program have help me became a way better writer then I was before. I love bridge I really don’t want to leave real talk. I will never forget this experience has at Columbia now I love this school more now. at least now I got a teat of the real thing. I’m ready to go all the way in full time at Columbia.
And to all the beautiful friends in my reading class I love you guys just stay cool and yourself because you all are cool as hell. When I c ya’ll around on campus don’t act like ya’ll don’t know me.
Love ya’ll
Jauvonnie

Goodbye

I will miss this class I hope we hang out together and keep in touch. I learned alot from each person and about myself. I hope this blog keeps going. I made some great friends and met some interesting people. Had fun all through out even when I was in trouble. I wish everyone the best of luck in all there goals and I hope we get together and look back on this and laugh. Steve and Danielle I will come visit you often and get advice and share experience. Ill miss everyone alot but I know well keep in touch. Sucks we had 4 weeks with each other and then were off into college. I hope Im remember as funny and determined. Good luck everyone in your life journey=D.

BYE!

So how many of you are living on campus?
It would be nice to see some of you when Bridge is over, I live at the Plymouth dorms :D

Overall the Bridge program was alright, I like this english class a lot better than my other one.
Math was pretty easy. My teacher was crazy though, but she was nice.

Umm I guess it was a good learning experience and gave me a preview into real college courses.
Hopefully my writing class will come easier to me now.

It was also nice to get to know the area way before the other new students. Also getting to know my roommates/floormmates before all the other students move in was fun.

I can't wait for my friends Anna & Antonio from Wisconsin (that's where I grew up) to come here though! They're going to Roosevelt and living at the UC. Also I can't wait to have some more free time to have fun in the city and explore the suburbs more.

Anyway! I wish you all the best :)

- Leah xoxo

Bonjour, class!

Hey, everyone! I just wanted to write you all a quick note to let you know that I received all of your papers via email. I'll be responding to those tonight (which will be Tuesday afternoon for all of you). So, you can be looking for my comments.

Paris is wonderful, by the way! We spent our first day getting over the jet lag and eating everything we could find. I'm terrible at French, but I'm managing to do what I need to do. Here are a couple photos.

Of course, I miss all of you guys. How was Dave Dolak's lecture? What are you all planning to do for your artistic translation projects?

For those of you that added me as a friend on Facebook, I'll approve your request as soon as class is over and you are no longer my students. :)

Be nice to Steve!

Au revoir,
Danielle

Day 13 teri ? by Salt

Day 13 by salt
With the genocide it’s tough to say what you will or will not do. When we say things we must act on them because then our breaths are being wasted and we become full of shit. Although the genocide is horrible and people are dying every day, the system of government just don’t care. They will not care at all. We were suppose to write a letter to the senators of the U.S.A. To me that was a waste of time because my mother always said if my kitchens dirty how are you going to clean someone else. That’s how I feel how can we make change somewhere when we have on a lesser scale genocide amongst each other in our own neighborhoods. I have seen family members kill each other. The government has never cared about any of us where I’m from and I don’t own my own government so how can I help when can go spread the message all we want about these people but we don’t even love each other enough. For me I’ll help the situation by trying to take care of community and helping my mess that’s going on in my neighborhood. If we all had that attitude then we would all have the structure to then help them out. What we need to do first is blitzed these elected officials with these questions then vote for them based off this subject then we will have enough power to say lets go help out and change some stuff. With that all of us as a nation don’t care about genocide so for now we have to just keep blitzing the message and one day we will all care then change what’s going on. I truly hope we can I care I just don’t care for my government and my fellow Americans

Contribution

Thes projects, The Cradle Project and One Million Bones, have touched me quite deeply. Beyond making a bone and giving money I want to contribute in other ways as well. I will dedicate films to it, I plan on volunteerenig when and where I can. Haveing family that barely survived the holocaust I feel it is my duty to aid in this effort. I am unsure as to the perticulars of eactly how i will help, but i do inted to find out and work my hardest.

I wish, than I don't, im happy

Ok, yes I did wish that I had a good ended with me and the father of my child. I love hard and when I say I love someone I’m fucking serious. Sometimes I wish we could had work out only for my son, because I know when he get older he is going to have questions that I am going to have to answer, and once I tell him I know he’s going to be hurt. But just to avoid all the hurt I went through and the hurt that my baby is going to feel. And I hate that is going to have to go through that. But now I don’t wish for a happen ending because I would have never met the sweetest, cutesiest, care hearted guy I ever met. I do think that if I did had a happy ending it wouldn’t last long at all. And I really thank the father of my child for this because he made me grow up and became the great mother and a better girlfriend that I am today. He got me ready for my future. And I’m happier than I have ever been with my son Marion and my new boyfriend and future husband Nathandla.
Now honestly just for now I don’t plan on to make a change now because for me right now is ok. But I know in the future I will make I change don’t know how but I will wait till that time as came to me. So just as of right now everything is all good and well.