School Gatherings
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Tuesday Talks
- Tim Annick '12
- Vanessa Lizarraga '12 & Nader Batal '12
- Cody Hamilton '12
- Jose Esqueda '12
- Lela Puckett '12
- Kel Mitchel '12
- Avery Schwartz '12
- Taylor Chatman '12
- Greg Cusack '12 & Austin Lokre '12
- Sarah Cohen '12 & Emma Birrell '12
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- Daniel Mock '12
- Alissa Jared '12
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- Charlotte Bowles '12
- Scott Sinclair '12
- Faith Donaldson '12 & Sarah Griffin '12
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- Michael Warren '12
- Fernando Hurtado '12
- Stephanie Flores '12 & Stephanie Duong '12
- Pom Bunsermvicha '12
- Taylor Erling '12
- Assembly
- Convocations
Tuesday Talk
November 1, 2011
Taylor Chatman & Vanessa Quintanilla
To listen to Taylor and Vanessa's Tuesday Talk - click the play button...
Taylor: First off, we would like to say that we did not realize how incredibly nerve wracking it would be to have 300 faces staring at you.
Vanessa: If you don’t know by now, Taylor and I are really good friends.
Taylor: We bring out the BEST and the WORST qualities in each other
Vanessa: We are the self appointed queens of procrastination, A.D.D. and loudness
Taylor: So when we sat down to think about what to say for our Tuesday talk, we quickly decided that it would be lame to talk about our friendship, or try to teach you a lesson that we are obviously not qualified to teach.
Vanessa: Instead, we thought we’d share a little about some of the people that are responsible for the way we are, and that is our families
Taylor: The people who created these jaw dropping, procrastinating, A.D.D. having, loud-mouthed women standing before you today.
I come from a true southern family, a family of gumbo, ribs, okra, red beans, boiled crawfish, and my grandmother’s sweet potato pie, with big holiday celebrations that last all day, and always end with some good wholesome family gambling.
Vanessa: I also come from a southern family, except mine is south of the boarder. And we live to eat. Imagine holidays where mole, Pozole, Pupusas, and platanos fritos are all at the dinner table. Would you like fourths?
Taylor: When we think about our families, the first two words to come to mind are psycho and drama. But upon further discussion we came up with better words to describe our families.
Vanessa: We thought it best to begin with our mothers. Not only do we look like them, but unfortunately we act like them as well.
Taylor: And as much as everyone denies it, we are all like our parents, no matter how hard we try to fight it.
I’d like to think that I get some of my sense of humor from my mom. The problem with that is that I have a mother who thinks she’s funny. I know we all have that one friend that makes jokes, and laughs are their own jokes because they think its funny, while everyone else stays quiet with a confused look on their face. My mom is that friend. Occasionally I am that friend too. My “yo mama” jokes are always twenty times more hilarious to me, than to anyone else.
Vanessa: I unfortunately inherited my awkward laugh from my mom. The volume is all me. However the “hhhha uggh” is all, my mom. So whenever we are both having a hardcore laughing fit we sound like an awkward symphony of dying animals “uhhh,uhhh,uuhh”
Taylor: While those examples are pretty personal, I’m sure we’ve all experienced the:
-I can’t believe you are about to walk out of the house with those clothes
on, look, or that obsessive:
-Honey, just let me fix your collar and dust the lint off your leg, and wipe
tiniest crumb from the crevice of your face, syndrome that all mothers
seem to have.
Vanessa: And I don’t know about you, but we must admit that occasionally we find ourselves in similar predicaments gossiping about the same things we have heard our mothers say countless times.
Taylor: Occasionally mortified by dressing habits of today's youth.
We start with:
“Ohhh, if her mother only knew what she was wearing right now.”
Vanessa: Or that psychopathic look on our faces when see that little
white tag floating on the back of someone’s shirt.
Taylor: But as we all know, it takes two to tango, which brings us to our inherited qualities from our fathers.
I like to think that I got my sense of style from my dad or at least my ability to color coordinate. Over the summer it was becoming increasingly not coincidental that my dad’s iPhone cases matched his outfits. One day when we were in the car, I had to ask. “Daddy do you match your phone cases to your clothes?” He answered “yes…,” as if that weren’t strange.
Vanessa: A quality that I get from my dad is lightheartedness. Both of us occasionally make complete fools of ourselves. Whenever my dad listens to music or if he gets really into a song he breaks down into a stationary happy dance with a cheesy smile on his face. No matter how bad of a mood I’m in this happy dance always makes me smile.
Commonly with Tuesday talks it seems that people feel like they have to teach you something, or make you come to a realization about yourself, which is all and well if that is what you choose, but the point of a Tuesday talk is also to talk about whatever your heart desires.
Taylor: So if you are wondering what the overarching theme or point to this Tuesday talk is, we are not sure that there is one. We simply wanted to talk about something that means a lot to us, our families, and hopefully you laughed and learned something about us in the process.
We hope you enjoy the cookies, and the song we are going to play.