Sydor remembered very fondly his meal times abroad. Junior Noel Pierson had a special day overseas when she was serenaded three separate times on her twenty-first birthday. First, I was sung to by 2,000 Thai students while visiting their school. Then a karaoke singer sang to me at dinner, and finally an entire nightclub stopped to sing to me on the dance floor that night, said Pierson. I don't think I've ever had that many people sing to me in one day .
Thai people go out of their way to make everyone feel special.
The only January term experience that involves both time in Oneonta and time away is the Theater in New York City course. Dr. Ken Golden of the theater arts department teaches his students about all aspects of the theater in the first two weeks of J-term. They read The Cherry Orchard by Anton Checkov and discussed how they would go about staging the performance. Other shows included The Music Man , Proof , The Full Monty , and Late Night Catechism . Freshman Alex Wachtel chose Cabaret as the best show she saw.