- Mountain Day!
- Hi! My name is Jade Bowden.
I am the HP of Lamont.
And so Lamont has tradition to come here every Mountain Day.
I definitely think Mountain Day is a really great way of bringing people together
at the beginning of the year,
since some people are still not sure who everyone is,
and it's a way of kind of like bonding together,
and also a lot of times, they'll play games, eat lunch together.
The apple-picking itself is also really good just in terms of having an experience
that everyone goes together.
- This is really good.
This is actually really good.
- We're very excited to be here,
it's a beautiful day.
This is my first sunny Mountain Day,
so I'm very excited.
It's actually hot and there were still apples
because I was worried we weren't gonna have any apples left,
so it's definitely great to be here.
- Early on, when we took over,
we were very pleased when Mountain Day came
to see Smithies and some students from Mount Holyoke show up
and visit here on Mountain Day,
and it's become a tradition in the last five or six years.
I think that Lamont House particularly calls up and comes visit us
when they found out that Anna and I both lived in Lamont House.
I think that sort of tickled them and they've been coming ever since.
- Welcome everybody to Quang Quang Farms.
We're very happy to have you here on Mountain Day.
I don't know if you all know,
my name is Ellison Bell and I'm Class of '79,
and I lived in Lamont House for four years.
- Mountain Day to me,
is always like time to relax with my friends,
so I meet up with my friends in the morning,
and also in the evening,
and it means something a little bit special to the African students
because in the evening usually, we meet up and cook together and eat.
- Hi. my name is Thida.
I'm from Myanmar, it's one of the southeast Asian countries.
It's like what I was waiting for all like from the beginning of the semester.
- Hi everyone, my name is Chi.
I'm from China.
Mountain Day is one of my favorite traditions at Smith.
It's a day that you can get together,
spend time with your friends and relax,
and forgot about all the homework and heavy duties,
so it's awesome.
- Mountain Day for me,
there's a time to relax,
a time to wake up at 12:00 noon,
but this year, we decided to go apple picking and it was so much fun,
so yay for Smith's traditions.
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