NCHS Spirit Week and Homecoming

So, next week is Spirit Week and Homecoming at New Canaan High School. It's one of the biggest weeks here and looking forward to this next week because it'll be my last Spirit Week and Homecoming Game and Dance at NCHS. Here's the schedule:

Monday: Pajama Day

Tuesday: High Society Day

Wednesday: Costume Day

Thursday: Turn Back the Clock Day

Seniors: 80's theme

Juniors: 70's theme

Sophomores: 60's theme

Freshmen: 50's theme

Friday: Red and Black Day, Pep Rally, and Homecoming Bonfire

Saturday: New Canaan Football vs Westhill Homecoming Game and Footloose Homecoming Dance

My new roles for St. Aloysius Youth Ministry

I have signed up for new roles for the Youth Ministry at my church, St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church. I have signed up to be an usher to collect donations at 5:30 Mass, an Altar Server, and a Lector. I will help collect money in the baskets to give to the needy. I will also serve at the altar at some 5:30 masses. I will also read verses and stories in the bible at some 5:30 masses. I'm sure that Mrs. Otis, our Youth Minister, Father Rob Kinnally, Deacon Steve Pond, 2 of my favorite priests, Mrs. Cate Pond, Deacon Steve's wife and my old CCD Teacher, and others will feel confident in what I'm about to do.

Ideas for Senior Internships

Here are some of my ideas I had for my Senior Internship:

New Canaan Fire Co. No. 1

New Canaan Volunteer Ambulance Corps 

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 653 New Canaan

Weed & Duryea Hardware Store New Canaan 

Coach Marinelli’s Football Coaching Intern 

Tony’s Deli New Canaan 

Curcio Training and HALO Studios New Canaan 

Coach Miska’s Strength and Conditioning Intern 

Vineyard Vines New Canaan 

Cherry Street East New Canaan 

Joe’s Pizza New Canaan 

The Whitney Shop New Canaan with grandma 

Ring’s End Lumber Norwalk 

Brandman’s Equipment LLC Norwalk 

Home Depot Norwalk 

Lowe’s Norwalk 

Dick’s Sporting Goods Norwalk

Bass Pro Shops Bridgeport 

Stew Leonard's Norwalk 

More ideas to come! 

Home Opener for Football tonight

Tonight is our home opener on Dunning Field at Hawes Plaza at New Canaan High School against the Danbury High School Hatters. Tonight at halftime, they're paying tribute to the New Canaan Rams Football Teams that went on a 33 game win streak from 1968-70. And before the game, they will also pay a tribute and have a moment of silence for Coach Jason "Coop" Cooper, Our former Wide Receivers Coach and who played Football and Lacrosse at NCHS from 1981-84. He caught the game winning touchdown in the 1982 Class M State Championship Game. He then went on to play both Football and Lacrosse at Duke University. And then was on 2 NFL Practice Squads for the Miami Dolphins and Dallas Cowboys. This game won't be easy considering Danbury's 1-0 with a new head coach and we're trying to improve on a loss from St. Joe's but our goals of winning the FCIAC and Class LL Title and Turkey Bowl are right in front of us but we're taking it one game at a time. Right now, we're focused on Danbury and see how we can play and win for Coop and those '68--'70 Teams. If we win, I will eat a pizza dinner with the team at Vicolo's Restaurant and I will start my new tradition of my so called "Post-Win date with both Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana." which means like what one of my best friends on the Football Team, Quintin O'Connell does after every win, watches Disney Pixar's Cars. After every win, whether Football, Wrestling, or Lacrosse, I will watch Disney's Hannah Montana. The reason I call it a post win date with both Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana is because in both the Disney Channel show and the Disney Movie, Miley Cyrus plays both Miley Stewart and Hannah Montana. Miley Stewart is the normal girl from Crowley Corners, Tennessee but moved to Malibu, California to pursue her music passions and had created her pop star identity "Hannah Montana." I am kind of attracted to her because she has my brown hair but has a blond wig for being Hannah and has blue eyes like me and has the same white skin, we have the same personalities, her real name "Miley" and my real name "Myles" are exactly alike, My mom looks like she's related to her deceased mother, Susan or her dad, Robby Ray Stewart (Billy Ray Cyrus), Both have brothers that have names that start with the letter J (Jackson Stewart and Jed Baliotti), She could be me as a boy and I could be her as a girl, I think she's my cousin, I like to hallucinate that I'm doing stuff with her as a cousin as I would, etc. Like Q and Lightning McQueen from Cars basically have the same identities. I hope we win tonight!

Senior Internship Program

I got an email from my case manager, Ms. Hammond about Senior Internship Program. This is a program where at the last month of school, 99% of the Seniors at New Canaan High School won't have to go to classes because of the internships they will receive. The application process begins November 19th and ends on my birthday, December 14th. December 19th is the deadline for the self designed internship proposal. January 3rd is when Student Interviews with the SIP Committee begins and ends on January 25th. April 27th is a mandatory meeting for all SIP Students in the Wagner Room and another mandatory meeting for the SIP Students is May 20th in the Auditorium. May 21st is when the Internships begin and end on June 13th with a reception at 5pm in the auditorium but the end date and reception will most likely change due to snow days.

More details:

The Program offers NCHS seniors an opportunity to explore future careers by experiencing the World of Work first hand. It will also provide businesses with motivated and eager workers and a potential pool of future employees.

What to expect:

• SIP is an approximately three to four week, unpaid internship. It is scheduled for the last three to four weeks of the academic year.
• Interns will work on-site at a business or organization approximately 25 hours per week, according to a schedule determined by the work site supervisor and the work site's needs. Interns will have SIP tasks to complete off-site, such as journaling.
• SIP is designed to operate during school hours (on-site hours will be scheduled between 7:30 am and 3 pm) but other arrangements may be made with particular Interns.
• To the extent possible, students will be matched to an internship that matches their skills and interests.

Let Football Season begin!

Football season has just begun. College Football started last week, NFL Football started last night, and High School Football in the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference (FCIAC) and in the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) begins this weekend. New Canaan High School has their first game tomorrow and I'm excited. We should be very good this year. I am hoping to get some playing time tomorrow.