Morning After!

Well that was a rush of 2 days! We had a blast hanging out with you all and hope you too had a grand ole time with us! We would really love to hear what everyone's favorite part of Orientation was, so please take a few minutes and leave us a comment or post on our Facebook wall! As we find and gather more pictures they will be loaded on our Facebook page! Be sure to like us and say heyy!!


If you have any thoughts, questions or just want to say hi, you know where to find us! We are on campus all summer!!


Once again here is our facebook link! https://www.facebook.com/JwuDenverSummerOrientation2012

-Peace, Love and JWU--Sam

It has arrived!!

Hey all!


Today is the day! ORIENTATION IS HERE!!!
We are super excited to see all of your faces so bright and early and can not wait to spend the next 48-ish hours with you!!


If you need anything while you are here please feel free to let any of us know! 
I have to make this quick so I can get back to work but I will post some pictures and highlights from today later tonight!!


Finally we ask that you all drink a ton of water with the hot weather and high altitude to make sure you can enjoy your Orientation experience to it's fullest!


Until then,


Peace, Love & JWU!!


-SAM

Facebook!

Hey all!

Just a quick little note! We have a new facebook page!! Make sure you like us and let us know if you have any thoughts or questions!

https://www.facebook.com/JwuDenverSummerOrientation2012

-Sam

Senior Staff!

Here is the Team! These are the people that have been working countless hours to prepare for your arrival! Now that you know who our "student" staff is let me introduce you to our Senior Staff!


    First we have Charli who is our WONDERFUL Graduate Intern from Boston College. She is awesome, always full of energy and is really good at making us (student's) look at things differently. We are super glad that she is here and can not wait for you all to meet her!


    O'Malley. His real name is John but most of the people around here call him O'Malley. During the school year he is a Resident Director, but during the summer we are very fortunate to have him apart of our Orientation Senior Staff. If you are ever looking for a good laugh or some solid advice he is the go to man!


    Our Glue. Jen is officially the Coordinator of Student Affairs, but we like to call her the glue. She has worked really hard to keep everything on track even though we have been going through a hard transition. She is very smart and makes everyone laugh! We are very lucky to have her on our team to help keep the peace and hold all of us together and on track!! (hence the glue).


    Finally the last but certainly no the least member of our team is Brian. Brian's official title is Director of Orientation and First Year Initiatives but really he will be our fearless leader! Brian is new to the team like most of us and we are all really excited for him to be here...even though he is not in Denver yet (he is moving from Washington state)! 


    Today was one of our last days to "get work done", and did we ever. Personally I can say that I stuffed every single one or your name tags (even though I had to redo them all because I had originally done them upside down....), finished a few sessions, finished a publication for you all and took a few pictures. We got a lot done today! The finish line is near and after our haul today we are even more prepared for that finish line.
    Make sure you catch tomorrow's blog post! It will have a lot of Orientation Session 1 related information like what to bring, when to check in and all that fun stuff. 


Until then amigo's!


-Sam

Meet Joey!!

Hey all!

Here is the last member of the Orientation Team (well besides the senior staff).

Countdown is to 5 days!

Meet Joey


Position: Orientation Leader
Major: Culinary Nutrition
Year: 3rd year
Hometown: Fullerton, CA
Favorite Color: Neon Green
Favorite Orientation Memory: Meeting my Orientation Leader for the first time and getting connected.
Favorite JWU Memory: Cooking and serving for the  Police Department for my Leadership program with my  Leadership and Service WIGIS  group. 
Hobbies: volunteering, cooking, freestyle dancing and running. 


Now that you know the team we will get back to business as usual on here! In the next few days we will help you make sure you are all prepared for your Summer Orientation Expereince! As always feel free to comment with any questions and join our JWU Denver Orientation 2012 Facebok group! There you can find more about the Orientation Team, meet the OL's and ask even more questions because we know you have questions for us!


-Sam

Meet Emily and Sam!

Hey Ya'll!
I hope that you are all super duper freaking excited for Orientation because the first session begins in less than a week!! Since we did not get around to blogging because we were so busy today you will be introduced to two members of our Summer Orientation Team. 


Emily Lanoce

Position:  Family Orientation Leader
Major: Culinary Nutrition
Year: Third Year
Hometown: Puyallup, WA (pronounced Pew-all-up)
Favorite Color: Turquoise
Favorite Animal: Elephant
Favorite thing to do in Denver: Find hole in the wall restaurants!
Favorite Orientation Memory: Playing Elfs, Wizards and Giants
Favorite JWU Memory: My 1st Late Night Breakfast
Favorite thing about JWU: EVERYTHING!!


Sam Klatt
Position: Orientation Leader
Major: Marketing
Year: 3rd year
Hometown:  Sauk Rapids, Minnesota
Favorite Color: Teal, Grapefruit and Leopard print
Favorite Animal: Dog
Favorite thing to do in Denver: Find new restaurants and go to all the sporting events!
Favorite Orientation Memory:  Seeing the campus for the first time ever!
Favorite JWU Memory: Cheering at all the home sporting events no matter if there were 3 of 50 of us there. The games are all really fun.
Favorite thing about JWU: Getting connected with the faculty, small classes and pretty much everything there is to love about JWU!




We have been working super hard this week to make sure everything is ready for you all! Today we are working on some videos to show you all along with building some of the sessions and working on the door decorations for your room that you will be staying in while attending Orientation!


Have a fantastic day!!


-Sam

Meet Johnny!!

Hay all.
9 days until our opening session of the first Orientation for the summer. We are so pumped up for you all to get here!! 


Johnny Lindstrom



Position: Orientation Leader
Major: Culinary Arts with Nutrition Intent
Year: 2nd/3rd year
Home Town: Tempe, AZ
Favorite Color: Baby Blue
Favorite Animal: Dolphin and Dog
Favorite thing to do in Denver: Walk around downtown and 16th Street Mall and see what fun things are happening!
What is your favorite Orientation memory: I enjoyed the ice breakers and energizers along with meeting a lot of cool new people!
My favorite thing about JWU: Late Night Breakfast!!!

Meet Taja

Hey all!
Here is another member of our fabulous Summer Orientation Team!


Taja Coleman


Position: Family Orientation Leader
Major: Sports, Entertainment and Event Management (SEE) 
Year: Class of 2013
Home Town: San Antonio, TX
Favorite Color: Pink & Green
Favorite Animal: Turtles!!!
Favorite thing to do in Denver: Line dance at the Grizzly Rose
What are you most looking forward to this summer with Orientation: Meeting all the new students and helping them connect.








Orientation Countdown: 10 days!!!!

Meet Katie!

The first session of orientation is only 11 days away! To get you all as excited as we are, we thought we would let you know who our team is along with who we are. For the next few days we will be introducing and featuring a member of our 2012 Summer Orientation Team! So here we go!

Katie Clark!

Position: Orientation Leader

Major: Hotel & Lodging Management

Year: Senior!!

Home Town: Neligh, Nebraska 

Favorite Animal: Horse

Favorite thing to do in Denver: Go to bakeries and ice cream places

Best JWU Memory: Late Night Breakfast!!

Favorite Orientation Memory: Oh goodness, probably the campus activities showcases.

Favorite thing about JWU: The relationships you form with friends, faculty and staff.

Pearl and the Plunger

Hey all!


Sam here! We have a lot to catch up on since the last post that mi amigo Johnny did. I realize that the title is a little "weird" per say but I promise it makes sense later!


Training. Today was a blast. We created our team cheer so get excited for that. It is pretty freakin awesome if I might say! Next we had a session with Brennan Meadows who is the Director of Student Activities.  This session was really fun for us since we got to hang out with Brennan and chat about the fun things that there are to do on campus (There is sooooo SO MUCH!!)  Anyways one tool that might be useful for you all is the Involvement Network. The IN (Ironic that the acronym is IN for involvement network) is a place where you can find information about and join the organizations we have on campus.  So make yourself a profile, find what organizations are a good fit to you and get more information on them! Its really easy, trust me! 
After our session with Brennan we met with Steven who is the counselor on campus. He is soo easy to talk to and is really brilliant. He is a great resource for all students even if there is no apparent "struggle" in their life. 


Our next session was with Campus Safety. We have some pretty awesome officers here! I mean all we did during our session was laugh and joke around. There are some pretty cool things that you all should know about Campus Safety. 

1. They are really fun.
1. Even though they are all super nice and can joke around with students it is important to remember that they do have a job to do.
2. Safe Walk
1. If you would feel more comfortable being accompanied while walking anywhere on campus give them a jingle and they can do that!
3. Crime Prevention Series
1. Free Food!!
2. Hanging out with Campus Safety 
3. Learning how to protect yourself from crime.
4. 303-256-9500
1. The Campus Safety Phone Number 
2. PUT IT IN YOUR PHONE 
5. They really are there if you need anything
1. They may not plunge your toilet for you but they will bring you the plunger!
6. Pearl
1. They drive a white Prius (her name is Pearl) so be sure to wave to them if you see them driving Pearl.
2. Sometimes they have to dive after people that drive on our sidewalks (I can't explain that one...) and even though they try they can not "chase" after the people because they drive a Prius.....

When all is said and done we have awesome Campus Safety!!! So if you are ever in need of anything do not be afraid to ask them for help! They will generally say yes with a bright smile! 

Our day concluded with our first look at Orientation!

We started building many of the sessions and thinking about each groups themes! If you think you have a brilliant idea please leave a comment on here!

Don't forget the FIRST Summer Orientation begins Monday June 18th!! To register click on this link and fill out the information! http://www.jwu.edu/EventMicrosite.aspx?pageid=60439

Also always please let us know if you have any questions in the comment section!
Tomorrow we begin introducing the Orientation Team so GET EXCITED!!!!

Peace, Love and JWU,

Sam

No Day But Today!!

Training Day 4
So today is Friday and we had a short day today!! We started the day bright and early at 8:30 am (for summer that is early lol) we decided to get us to wake up a little we needed to do an energizer!! We played bang bang your dead and a super model game!

Then we had the privilege to have an informative session with the Director the Center for Academic Support (CAS) Kecia Leland. She explained to us all the different tools that her department offers to make students JWU experience as easy as possible such as: free tutoring, writing center, academic counseling, and much more! She then wanted us to make sure that all students and their families feel as comfortable as possible during orientation and had us learn all the easiest access points to all the buildings on campus.  

Next we learned a little bit about some communication skills and how important it is to know that even though we may understand and perceive something one way that new students as yourselves may not perceive it the same way. This is important for us as orientation leaders to make sure that all students truly understand the material that we are giving them. SO DO NOT BE AFRAID TO ASK QUESTIONS!!!!

See you all soon!

-Johnny