Désirée and Robert recently shared their experiences of having Double the Fun dancing at both Johnsonville and Tawa clubs.
Below, Moira Broughton writes about dancing at her second club – Ngaio, and the advantages of being a ‘Double Agent’.
Moira with other Ngaio dancers dressed in colours of the rainbow at Tawa’s fun night in May 2015.
I discovered Scottish Country Dancing in February 2014 when I attended the beginners classes at Johnsonville club.
I was quickly enthralled and keen to improve my dancing but could not attend the Region’s evening classes which are always held on Tuesday nights.
I decided that the next best thing was to dance at another club so I began dancing on Thursday nights at Ngaio club which meets at the Khandallah Presbyterian church across from the New World supermarket.
There are many benefits to dancing at another club, quite apart from being able to dance twice each week. You are instructed by a different tutor who has a different style of teaching and emphasises different aspects of dancing, you learn more dances and you develop a wider circle of Scottish Country Dancing friends.
Ngaio is a small club (a full two sets is a good night!), there is a good ratio of experienced dancers to beginners and each dance is walked several times until the dancers are confident, which makes it an excellent club for beginners. I can still recall that on one of my early visits to Ngaio, Melva patiently demonstrated the footwork for ‘advance and retire’ and we all practised this movement. It is not always possible to do this in large, busy clubs.
There are a number of us who attend other clubs. I was tickled pink when Elena Lark, one of Johnsonville’s class of 2019 and an extremely competent dancer, referred to herself as a ‘double agent’ who dances at both Johnsonville and Tawa. It seemed very apt since she is Russian (I apologise in advance for this Cold War era racial stereotyping, Elena – no offence is intended).
I recommend you try it out and become a double agent – try the clubs at Ngaio, Tawa or Capital City (Thursday), or Kelburn (Wednesday). You will see several faces that you know from Johnsonville and you will enjoy meeting other dancers in the Scottish Country Dancing community.
Johnsonville Club members Désirée, Elena, Maureen and Hilary dance ‘Farewell to Tawa’ at Tawa’s Final Night
How can you have even more fun than dancing at Johnsonville? You can dance at a second club as well!
Many of our members do just that – as club members or as visitors. Sandy, Rod and Stephen dance at Capital City Club.
Elizabeth N, Moira B, Moira S and Nancy dance at Ngaio Club as do Bruce and Fiona, who’ve recently been coming along to Johnsonville.
Johnsonville club regulars Désirée and John P, Elena, Maureen, Pat, and Robert, as well as Bob and Hilary dance at Tawa Club.
Find out more below about the advantages of dancing at two clubs from Johnsonville Club members Robert and Désirée.
Being a member of two clubs
Robert and Brenda dancing at the top of the set at the New Dancers’ Celebration 2018
Writing as a fairly new dancer with lots to learn I think it’s really good to belong to more than one club if you get the chance.
The obvious point is that you get to dance twice as much and there’s no doubt that the more you dance the more it starts to make sense, but there are lots of other advantages.
Different tutors teach in different ways and give different explanations of how things are done.
When you dance at two clubs seeing the same things from more than one perspective definitely makes them easier to understand. You get that “Oh, that’s how it works” moment when some figure has seemed very confusing the last time you tried it.
Clubs have different favourite dances so you get to learn more dances if you dance twice a week. Clubs prepare for each other’s Tartan Nights and celebrations so if you go to two clubs you get to repeat dances – they become more familiar and you become more confident doing them.
Finally, if you dance twice a week you will definitely be fitter! Lots of Johnsonville members, experienced and less experienced, dance at other clubs and it’s definitely worth doing if you can.
from Robert
Tawa Club’s Final Night
On Thursday 14 November, Tawa Scottish Country Dance Club had their final club night for the year. This was an especially final ‘final night’, as it was the last time that retiring tutor Maureen Robson was at the helm.
The programme consisted of club members’ favourites, and there was a demonstration of a new dance Maureen had devised for the occasion, called Farewell to Tawa. Watch Pat’s video below.
It was a busy night with six sets on the floor, a bit of a squish, but we had fun. Members from three other small clubs had been invited to join us (Ngaio, Kelburn and Linden). The reason we can’t extend the invitation to all clubs, is that the Redwood Hall is small, and six sets is about all it can cope with.
Ngaio/Johnsonville member Moira B attended, as did Ngaio members Bruce and Fiona, who have been dancing at Johnsonville lately. Several Johnsonville members – Maureen S, Hilary, Elena, Robert, Pat, Bob, John P and myself – are also members of Tawa.
I can thoroughly recommend belonging to more than one club. You get to dance more often, and so you learn more quickly. It is also very good to be exposed to different teachers, as all have their own styles.
from Désirée
Thanks for all the dancing
Aileen, Hilary, Maureen and Désirée
Tawa premiered a new dance at their penultimate club night for the year.
Called Thanks for All the Dancing, the dance is dedicated to Tawa’s tutor Maureen Robson, who is retiring from teaching Tawa after having been the club’s tutor for 38 years!
Désirée Patterson devised the dance and Hilary Ferral composed the music. Musicians on the night were Hilary and Aileen Logie. Watch Pat’s video below.
Our tutor Rod Downey has visited Heidelberg many times over the years to work with colleagues at Heidelberg University, and has always been welcomed by the Heidelberg SchlossDancers – named after Heidelberg’s famous schloss (castle).
As in the United States, local dancers regularly travel quite long distances to dance at multiple neighbouring clubs (like Frankfurt and Darmstadt), and to attend special events like balls, weekend schools and highland games.
In 2017 and 2018 we were both in Heidelberg for extended visits relating to Rod’s Humboldt fellowship. Local dancers went out of their way to offer us rides to dancing in Heidelberg and Frankfurt and took Rod along to a ball in Karlsruhe.
Rod in the eurythmy hall at the Waldorf School
Dancing with the Heidelberg group gave us the opportunity to dance in the eurythmy hall of the Waldorf School, set amongst trees, with beautiful wood floors, and racks of colourful eurythmy capes used by the students for their movement classes. It had a really beautiful feel.
We quickly got into the local culture of trips to the ice cream parlour every week after dancing, and the local specialty of ‘spaghetti’ ice cream.
It may have taken a little longer to get used to our fellow dancers changing out of their day clothes and into their dancing clothes pretty much where they stood (and where you were standing too, without any expectations that someone was about to drop trews).
As well as the dancing, we loved cycling along the Neckar. We have strong memories of the smell of fresh strawberries growing in the fields we cycled through, and cows looking out from an ancient barn next to a favourite Biergarten stop.
Canberra Club ran a competition in 2018 inviting people to submit dances they had devised.
The club has now published a book of dances selected from that competition.
Rod Downey, our tutor, made the short list of eight with his dance Summer on the Neckar, inspired by his time dancing in Heidelberg, located on the beautiful Neckar River.
Kristin and Rod with the Dunsmuir Scottish Dancers in the San Francisco Bay area
On their visit to the United States in September, Rod and Kristin Downey, our tutor and President, enjoyed meeting up with Scottish Country Dancing groups in the areas where they were based.
Kristin shares their dancing and teaching experiences below.
Madison, Wisconsin
In early September, Rod taught some of his dances to the Madison Scottish Country Dancers – RSCDS John Muir Branch, where he has danced a number of times on past visits to the University of Madison Wisconsin.
Dancers from all over the world were represented in Rod’s dances. Included in his programme on one of the night’s he taught were Wellington dancer Moggie G, ex-Wellington now New York dancer XiaoWen, Yu-san, Our Lady in Pink from Tokyo, and keen Heidelberg/Frankfurt/Darmstadt dancers Gillian and Joe Wheadon.
Rod also taught the Milwaukee Scottish Country Dancers and enjoyed the company of old friend and Milwaukee tutor John McCormick, who kindly drove him from Milwaukee to Chicago. John is used to doing lots of driving for dancing, regularly travelling up to two hours to dance in Madison.
John is at the front right of this photo at the Milwaukee group’s open house for new dancers on 30 September, at the time they, like other northern hemisphere groups start their dancing year.
Rod’s newest dance John McCormick was devised as a gift to John, based on John’s favourite formation (the tourbillon) and his favourite dance type (the strathspey).
The San Francisco Bay area has many keen Scottish Country dancers, with lots of options of classes (as they are known there, rather than clubs).
The dancing year had only just begun, as people returned from summer activities. I went along to the San Jose class on Monday 16 September for their first class of the year.
Our older son Carlton is now working in Mountain View not too far from San Jose, so he provided the transport and found Scottish Country Dancing came flooding back to him despite many years as a ballroom dancer.
As with Johnsonville at the beginning of the year, the night was structured with easy dances for beginners for the first part of the evening, and dances for the more experienced later on.
What a nice surprise to find the first dance of the night was The Mad Hatter – devised by fellow Wellingtonian Iain Boyd. The dance was not chosen because teacher Laura Cooper knew we were coming, rather because Iain’s dances are very popular in the Bay area.
The second dance was John McAlpine, once very popular in Wellington and still occasionally appearing on dance programmes.
Familiar dances and very welcoming and friendly dancers made us feel very much at home. And it was nice to see a group with such a good number of men. In fact, for the last dance there were seven men out of the 10 dancers on the floor for a five-couple dance to finish!
Rod arrived in San Francisco on Tuesday 18 September, moving from the University of Madison, Wisconsin to the University of California Berkeley.
He arrived just in time to teach the Dunsmuir Scottish Dancers on Tuesday night, together with dancers from other groups in the Bay area.
Dunsmuir has quite a different focus from groups in New Zealand. They are a “performance group dedicated to keeping alive the spirit and form of Scottish dances old and new” from the 18th century to present day. That includes Scottish Country, Highland, and Step Dancing.
Their teacher is Ron Wallace, who Rod has met up with over the years at TAC Summer Schools. Ron travels an hour each way to teach the class. Dancers are used to commuting much further here than we do in Wellington.
Their normal class nights are all about perfecting technique and learning dances for upcoming performances. This was a change for them, instead spending the night dancing a selection of Rod’s dances.
Rod teaching a Highland Schottische Poussette movement in his dance Le Moyne and Roger Farrell of Ithaca
It was a fun night, and interesting dancing on a plywood floor laid on top of the hall floor.
It did away with the problem of a chronically slippery floor and also provided more cushioning. You just had to be careful not to stray off the plywood, as you can see in the photo.
Julee, one of the dancers, was at the most recent Masterton Summer School and I am told that Tim Wilson, also one of the Dunsmuir dancers, will be in New Zealand next year to teach at Christchurch Summer School.
Elena and Tomoko dance Barbara’s Strathspey at the Johnsonville Annual Dance 2019
We were all new dancers once, but it’s easy to forget what it was like actually being a new dancer.
The further on we progress in our dancing, and the longer we are part of the dancing community, the more difficult it is to imagine ourselves in the shoes of a new dancer.
It’s hard to remember that as a beginning dancer, all you see is club night, and you have no idea what else is out there waiting for you.
You don’t know about tartan nights or annual dances, or region classes. You may not realise there is more dancing to be had at other clubs nearby, let alone farther afield in the region or throughout New Zealand and the world.
Extending new dancers’ awareness
To try to extend our new dancers’ awareness, we first focused on promoting the opportunities that exist at region level.
We followed this up with a series of e-news mail-outs focusing solely on the annual dance.
It contained a combination of practical information (like what to wear, where to park, etiquette), encouragement from our tutor Rod, and a clear message of the fun to be had on the night.
Committee members personally approached new dancers at club to encourage them to attend, and we talked at club about experienced dancers buddying up with newer dancers to make sure they had partners.
Finally, to relieve any concern about “not knowing the dances”, Rod and Jeanette, as joint MCs, decided to walk all dances.
A really good turnout
In the end, a lot of different things contributed to a really good turnout of Johnsonville’s newer dancers.
On the night, fourteen of our dancers with less than two years’ dancing experience took to the floor and were part of a really happy fun night.
For the majority of them, it was their first time at a Saturday night dance, and they had a ball.
Thanks to all those experienced dancers from Johnsonville and also other clubs who supported our new dancers on the night.
This year the Wellington Region offered classes at many levels, including a Basics Class for newer dancers. And in July Maureen Robson taught an afternoon Reels Class.
Amongst the many Johnsonville dancers who attended classes, three have shared their thoughts. Find out what Andrea Boult, Andrea Buxton and Elizabeth Judge have to say about their class experiences.
Basics Class
From Andrea Boult
“In between the concentrating and the laughs, we all had a wonderful time learning…”
Andrea dancing Collie Law with fellow Johnsonville Club member Andrew Macbeth at the Johnsonville Annual Dance 2019. Photo: Loralee Hyde
Between May – July the Wellington Region ran a Basics Class for beginners consisting of six fortnightly sessions.
Melva Waite was our ever so patient and enthusiastic teacher. Catherine McCutcheon and Robert and Brenda Vale very kindly helped on the nights too.
Between May – July the Wellington Region ran a Basics Class for beginners consisting of six fortnightly sessions.
Melva Waite was our ever so patient and enthusiastic teacher. Catherine McCutcheon and Robert and Brenda Vale very kindly helped on the nights too.
Each night we focused on three or four formations/steps which we repeated over and over. For a newbie like me this reinforced what I had been learning at my Johnsonville Club.
Melva encouraged us to be constantly thinking ahead as to what position we were in and what was the next move in each dance. This was the hardest part as we could not rely on our more experienced partners like we do on our club nights.
In between the concentrating and the laughs, we all had a wonderful time learning and appreciated all the efforts that Melva had put into these classes.She surprised us at the last class with live music! What a treat to finish on.
Like all Scottish Country Dancing gatherings, we made some new friends and are looking forward to seeing them in the future on the dance floor.
From Elizabeth Judge
“Besides the dancing I really enjoyed connecting with other dancers from around Wellington”
Elizabeth (in the centre) enjoying dancing Good Hearted Glasgow. Photo: Loralee Hyde
At our first lesson Melva gave us an overview of Scottish Country Dancing in New Zealand. Throughout the lessons Melva who is passionate about Scottish Country Dancing, imparted to us the importance of etiquette, precision and enthusiasm when dancing.
When teaching us a dance with new formations, we would go over and over it until absolutely everyone had mastered it without a mistake, something we appreciate can only happen in a smaller group with people all at the same level.
My time at the Basics Class has helped me understand the steps and formations better when I come to do them at our club nights. Our last week saw a couple come along to play live music and Melva treated us to a little gift for trying so hard.
Besides the dancing I really enjoyed connecting with other dancers from around Wellington. We met up again at the Reels Class held in Tawa and no doubt will see each other at the New Dancers’ Celebration later in the year. Also these classes have shown me that there is a great network of Scottish Country dancers in Wellington.
I would thoroughly recommend attending these classes if you are just starting out on the journey of Scottish Country Dancing.
Reels Class
From Andrea Buxton
“… we had so much fun doing reels, reels and more reels”
Andrea at the rear dancing Collie Law with Moira, John and Helen from Johnsonville Club. Photo: Loralee Hyde
There was a Reels Class held recently in Tawa. I went along as there was no question I needed help!
Once there, I sat in the carpark wondering how on earth we could be spending two and a half hours doing the same thing and wouldn’t that be a long afternoon …
I couldn’t believe the time went so fast and we had so much fun doing reels, reels and more reels.
Hats off to the tutor for her patience! Met some lovely people all the way from Waikanae. Had an absolute blast!
Having fun with the skills and knowledge gained
These three dancers were also part of a fourteen strong contingent of first and second year dancers at this year’s Johnsonville and Capital City Joint Annual Dance on 24 August. With skills, knowledge and the help of friends old and new, how could they not have a wonderful dancing experience?
Keep your eyes open next year and you could be enjoying classes on offer round the Region, having fun, learning more and making new friends.
From Kristin Downey, President Johnsonville Scottish Country Dance Club
We’ve practised the dances, the band has rehearsed the music, volunteers are lined up to help from both Johnsonville and Capital City Clubs, and Jeanette and Rod are poised to guide us through a great night’s dancing.
Our annual Saturday night dance on 24 August is a very special occasion. It is our premiere dance event of the year, which we organise for our enjoyment, and that of other dancers throughout the region.
Cath was a longtime member of Johnsonville Club from 1998-2012 – President in 2007, 2008 and Acting President for part of 2012. She is third from the left in the back row.
I was in Whangarei in early August, catching up with old friends and family members, and happened to be there on a Thursday, the day on which the Whangarei Scottish Country Dance Club meets in the Onerahi hall.
Two club members kindly picked me up from where I was staying and took me ‘home’ again afterwards.
Quite a few Johnsonville Club members will remember Cath MacAulay, who danced at Johnsonville before she moved to Whangarei. It was great to see her again. Cath dances at both the Whangarei and Kamo (also in Whangarei but meeting on a Tuesday) clubs, and says she recently moved house.
The Whangarei club’s tutor is Fiona Bullivant, who was my tutor at a summer school many years ago, so it was good to see her again too.
And a highlight of the evening was having live music. Twisty Willow (Barbara and Wes Bycroft) play for the club once a month, and I was lucky enough to be there on the right day.
When I first started dancing in February 2007, some people asked me if I had attended Summer School. No, I hadn’t, I knew nothing about it, I didn’t even know anything about Scottish Country Dancing.
But by the end of the dancing year, I knew how to dance – after a fashion – I was hooked, and I was keen to give Summer School a go, despite having injured a calf muscle at Tawa’s final club night while doing a rather too enthusiastic poussette.
Désirée at Hogmanay, Masterton 2017-2018. Photo: Loralee Hyde
As luck would have it, that year, Summer School was in Wellington, so I was able to attend as a commuter. I attended the Elementary/Beginners class, taught by Romaine Butterfield, and what I learned in that class still stands me in good stead today: posture, correct ‘handing’, foot positions, timing of steps, phrasing, eye contact.
Two years later, in 2009, I attended the Intermediate class at the Auckland Summer School, which was held at AUT, and accommodation was on campus in student hostels. Because I was a late registration (they probably had nowhere else to put me), I was very lucky to have been accommodated in a five-person student flat, sharing with four top UK teachers (Alan and Christine Mair, Ann Dix and Maureen Haynes – no less than RSCDS ‘royalty’).
Being such a newbie, I spent a lot of down time just listening to their conversations, and learned so much – about dancing, teachers’ perspectives, and the RSCDS as an international organisation.
I found the Summer School experience fabulous, fun and exhilarating, but exhausting and hard on the feet. Staying on campus is wonderful because, as well as the three or four sets of people in your class, you also get to meet people from the other classes, at mealtimes and other activities. People come from all around New Zealand, Australia and beyond, with many attending year after year.
Johnsonville Club Members – Alan, Elaine, Désirée, Pat, Janet, Linda and Loralee – Hogmanay, Masterton 2017-2018. Photo: Supplied by Loralee Hyde
Living in also means that all meals are provided and not having to cook is always a bonus in my book! As well as the daily morning classes, you can take part in some of the extra activities that are happening in the afternoons. These vary with each Summer School – there might be extra classes in other forms of dance or music, lectures, local excursions, and/or walk-throughs of the evening balls or socials.
That year in Auckland I attended a lecture by a physiotherapist who spoke about looking after one’s feet and other body parts that might be hurting after such intensive use. It is tempting to want to do it all, but you might also want to use the free afternoons for resting your weary feet, catching up on sleep, or reading up the cribs for the evening dances.
In twelve years of dancing, I have now attended seven Summer Schools, and I hope I will be able attend a few more before my body decides to give out on me. I must say, that in that time, I have learnt to pace myself (deciding which dances I would and would not do at the evening socials), learnt the judicious use of painkillers (for arthritic feet) and Voltaren Emulgel (for sore muscles), and the value of taking time to rest.
I have found that pressure socks (as in-flight socks) and ice-packs help with sore feet and calves. And have padding inside your dancing shoes!
Summer Schools generally alternate between the North and South Islands. They follow a predictable pattern, with some events being a regular part of the experience. Here is what a typical Summer School might look like.
The dates are always from 28 December to 5 January, regardless of the days of the week. On the first day (28 Dec), participants arrive in the afternoon, they register, and are allocated their room and given their ‘goody bag’, which will contain such useful items as information about the school and its key people, programmes and crib sheets of the evening dances, touristy information about the local area, often a notebook and pen, a named water bottle, sometimes a little treat (lollies or chocolate).
Most importantly it will have your name tag, which you must wear all the time, as it entitles you to meals, entry into the evening dances and transport to halls for the morning classes.
Advanced Class at the 1989-1990 Summer School in Hamilton including Johnsonville dancers John Homes (right, top row), the late Jim Crawford (middle, second from right) and Loralee Hyde (bottom, right). Photo: Supplied by Loralee Hyde
Before dinner on the first day, there is a short function, with drinks and nibbles, for first time attendees. Your name tag will have a star or other form of identification to show you are a first-timer.
The morning classes run from 9am to 12 noon, with a break for morning tea. These are compulsory. It’s important to turn up, as the tutor will have planned their class according to the numbers on the roll.
There are usually classes at all levels ranging from Elementary to Very Advanced Technique, all taught by highly competent teachers, some from overseas. On the first or second day, a photographer will take photos of all the classes, as well as of the whole school (quite an exercise!).
After lunch there will be a programme of optional activities, and after dinner there are usually evening dances. The first and second evenings are casual socials, lasting from 7:30 to 9:30 – not too long and not too difficult. Of course, all the evening functions have live music.
The third evening is a Fancy Dress dance – the theme is detailed well beforehand so you can come prepared (fancy dress is optional). Prizes are awarded to the best costumes. This dance is planned and briefed by young dancers (JAMs – Junior Associate Members). The dances are fun and energetic!
Loralee and Kristin at a movie star theme night, Auckland 2005-2006. Photo: Supplied by Loralee Hyde
The fourth night is Hogmanay – New Year’s Eve. This calls for somewhat more formal attire – certainly if you are male and own a kilt, this is the time to show it off – and be prepared for a long night.
After the Hogmanay midnight ceremony, there is more dancing – a couple of dances, plus traditionally, the 32-some Reel, or Eightsome Reel, which is danced with much gusto.
If you want to take part in that, it is a good idea to attend the walk-through in the afternoon. If you join in without knowing it, and make a mess of it, you will just spoil it for those that know and love it. Just enjoy watching it instead!
I haven’t mentioned the ‘after-parties’ which take place in the accommodation’s common room after the socials, and where often people do yet more dancing, to music played by members of the band and/or members of the Musicians’ Class.
The after-party after Hogmanay is legendary and has been known to continue into the early hours of the morning (e.g. 4, 5 or 6 am). Needless to say, breakfast is replaced by brunch the following day. Many of the young people don’t even turn up for that.
New Year’s Day is the day of rest – for some. Brunch is the only meal provided on that day. There will be no dinner. A list of cafés, restaurants or supermarkets in the vicinity will be made available so you can organise your own. Sometimes picnic packs can be provided (need to book for these).
During the afternoon on 1 January, the NZ Branch of the RSCDS has its AGM. This is open to all, though not all attend. It is quite interesting to see/hear how things are organised, and what people’s issues are. Of course, members of the Executive are elected, there is voting, and then there are the dreaded Remits – with a bit of luck they won’t go on for too long …
For a bit of levity, the Wooden Spoon will be awarded to the school’s biggest ‘stirrer’. On 2 January, classes start again – hopefully your feet will have recovered from the previous three days of classes and social dancing.
In the evening, there will be the traditional President’s Ball, which is preceded by drinks and nibbles. This is a formal occasion, and a chance to dress up in your best finery. There is usually a photographer, who will take official photos, but will also be available to take photos of you and your friends. This dance goes on until midnight.
Johnsonville dancers – John M, Désirée, Joan, Deborah and Shelley – in the Grand March, President’s Ball, Dunedin 2014-2015
The next night, there is no dancing – phew! You get to sit and watch. It is Ceilidh Night, where talented attendees perform items – music, singing, dancing, skits, poetry – there is such a lot of talent amongst the SCD community!
If you have any performance skills, make sure you get in touch with the Ceilidh organiser – they will be calling for items in the daily school newsletter.
Loralee (dark green top) and Philippa (pale green top) dancing to the music of Teddy Bears’ Picnic in a ceilidh item, Napier 2001-2002. Photo: Supplied by Loralee Hyde
On the last full day of the school, there is the infamous Mock Court in the afternoon, where prominent people (members of the Exec, teachers, summer school organisers, and general ‘big noise’ people) are hauled up before a ‘court’ to answer to trumped-up charges of serious misdemeanours.
They are given outrageous punishments, such as dancing 40 Pas de Basque in a row, or dancing Petronella backwards … It is all a lot of fun, and as a newbie, you need not worry about getting targeted.
The final night is another social dance, finishing at the respectable time of 9:30pm, after which you go back to your room to pack for your departure the next morning.
Désirée, Final Night, Nelson 2018-2019. “What a blast!” Photo: NZ Branch Summer School Facebook
Home, to your own bed, and no more dancing for at least a couple of weeks, so your body can recover from all the rigours of Summer School. But what a blast you will have had!
