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After such a busy day yesterday, today was much more relaxed. We slept in (relatively) and had a leisurely breakfast at 8:00 AM.

We were introduced to the amazing Kanbar Hall -- the student center of the campus. The staff set us up in a room they call the performance center that has high ceilings, an enormous window and glorious air conditioning! The singers rehearsed while I learned my lesson that the hardest part about being a chaperone is trying to track down all of the misplaced items along the way. Although it was cloudy on the way over to Kanbar, I believe our performers missed the brief sprinkles that happened while they were singing -- otherwise it was another beautiful day.

After rehearsal and before lunch, Mea let the group work off some energy in an exhausting looking game that involved a frisbee. Later, Ellen took some of the group exciting excursion to Rite Aid Pharmacy to get restocked in toothpaste, batteries and other necessities; some of the graduates went into Central Philly; and many of us returned to Kanbar to discover that our practice room had been converted to the ultimate WII room. For those of you who haven't heard -- the WII is a video game where the controller can sense your movements so you can play games such as tennis, golf, bowling and GUITAR HERO from the comfort of your living room. I was there long enough to see the guitar hero competition. We were like kids in a candy store, we jumped from WII to table pool to ping pong to basketball all before the campus tour.

The group that I was with was shown around by Tanya. She showed us part of the campus and got a chance to visit the school of Architecture and Design where they learn about building everything from houses to commercial buildings to museum exhibit spaces. And they learn how to design everything from roller coster rides to car parts. We also got to visit a building where they learn about textiles, fashion design, cartooning, mental health, occupational therapy and medical education (they are one of a few schools that have a cadaver lab.) We were surprised to discover that the participants in the television reality show "Project Runway" are students from this school. The winner of the first season, Jay McCarroll, had been a student here and is now teaching here. I know the participants in my group were full of questions about the school and about how college worked. It certainly piqued their curiosity.

After the tour we split back into groups based on interests. I went with a team back to the gymnasium where we discovered that their enormous basketball court is also surrounded by a raised indoor track. I was so impressed by how many times some of our young ladies raced around that course! Again, they will sleep WELL tonight.

After dinner we celebrated Allison's sixteenth birthday. The kitchen staff made her a gorgeous, enormous cake which were were barely able to make a dent in, just before the water battle that ended in liquid carnage and serious laughter. Those who managed to stay dry were given big hugs by those who weren't so there were very few dry shirts by days ended. (Fortunately almost everyone had changed into bathing suits first.) The volleyball game and hanging out were so much fun that we ended up canceling the movie that was scheduled for the evening and it was left as an evening of free time. Some kids had a party to celebrate Allison's birthday some more, some just took advantage of the down time to relax, hang out or go to bed early. (Some kids got a chance to learn how to do some laundry, too.)

Luke was named MVP for acting on his own to protect his fellow singers from traffic while crossing the streets.He made sure every one was back from the curb while waiting for the light to change and paying attention.