Just in time for the weekend! Listen to the lovely melodies of our talented TAF Campers as you relax from the stress of a busy week:
TAF Night 2010 – Swing Choir Update
Woohoo TAF Night acts! We’ll be uploading all the acts in the next week or so, or as much as our TAF Blog upload speed allows. We wanted to get the program swing choirs out to you first though, so everyone can spend this weekend learning (or re-learning) all the amazing moves!
Juniors “The Rise and Fall of D & K”
JH “Better Than YOUth”
Youth “Pretty Girl Swag”
Youth “Got More Swag”
Keep checking back for more updates from TAF Night 2010!
TAF Real World – Week #1 of 51
Oh hey! Did you know that the TAF Vision is for TAFers to “to make a profound impact on mankind in unique and compassionate ways”?
We at TAFLabs want to know how YOU are making an impact this year in your life beyond Manchester. Our goal is for TAFers to post on the blog at least once per week. We want to hear/see/read/experience your thoughts on LOVING OUT LOUD, how you showed love to someone, or how someone loved on you.
If you didn’t sign up for a week at TAF, please sign up here: Sign up!
Instructions are listed on the spreadsheet.
Here is Andrew kickin’ it off with WEEK 1 (or 51 WEEKS ’til TAF):
NOTES ON A SUMMER CAMP
With this year being TAF’s 30th birthday celebration, tafLabs and tafMedia created this retrospective piece to commemorate and preserve TAF’s history and development from the early 1980’s till now. While we have all grown and evolved thanks to TAF, TAF itself has grown and changed with us, and its just good to know where it all started from.
Special thanks go out to Anna Wu and Ho Chie Tsai for putting this together, Dan Lu for assisting in research, all of our interviewees, and of course, every single person who has come to, visited, and enjoyed TAF.
TAF has a rich history and there are many more stories like this to share. Maybe someday we can get to more of them, but this will do for now. A great thirty years have gone by, which in reality has only been thirty weeks. Looking forward to the next thirty. TAFLove to all, past, present, and future 🙂
WATCH THE TAF2010 LOVE OUT LOUD SLIDESHOW!
The campers are still all awake, and TAF Night only ended just a few hours ago, but here for your viewing pleasure is the TAF2010 Slideshow!
Credits: Tiffany Su, Justin Ku, Andrew Kuo, Steve Wang, & the rest of the tafLabs and tafMedia team.
Songs:
1. Viva Love Forever – Mashup by Jeremy Chen & Andrew Lo. Original songs by Coldplay, New Order, & Alphaville.
2. Mind Heist – Zack Hemsey, from “Inception.”
3. All We Are – Matt Nathanson
4. Kings & Queens – 30 Seconds to Mars
5. Do You Remember – Jay Sean, feat. Sean Paul & Lil John
We’ve had an amazing week with everyone, and have much more video footage to come so keep staying tuned! Just because we’re all leaving Manchester College for another year in a few hours doesn’t mean the TAF spirit is over as well. TAFLOVE 365 y’all!
Send TAF a Happy 30th Birthday video!
As you may know by now, this year is TAF’s 30th birthday! Even though you may not be at TAF right now, help us celebrate by sending us a short video telling us who you are, what years you went to TAF, and some quick birthday wishes and we’ll feature them on the blog!
You can upload them to your own account or ours on youtube:
user: tafshare
password: what the “t” in taf stands for!
Email us at tafhelp@tafworld.org.
UPDATE: A post-TAF happy birthday video from “the original” Alex Yang!
Daily Recap – Tuesday
Juniors save the universe!
Youth Update:
Labs Update:
TAF Value
TAF2010: Daily Recap MONDAY
Newsletter coordinators Nicole Hsieh and Erica Lee give us an preview of things to come from North Manchester, Indiana!
And here we go!
Today TAFers studied the different classes and species of the animal kingdom, as well as observed animal attitudes and behaviors. Results may or may not be published in Nature sometime in the future.
They also learned that Force = mass x acceleration. See parents! We DO teach math here at TAF!
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
Nick and Victor meet for the first time at Sunday dinner after a year of separation.
Communication skills:
Send TAF happy 30th birthday video messages!
As you may know by now, this year is TAF’s 30th birthday! Even though you may not be at TAF right now, help us celebrate by sending us a short video telling us who you are, what years you went to TAF, and some quick birthday wishes and we’ll feature them on the blog!
You can upload them to your own account or ours on youtube:
user: tafshare
password: what the “t” in taf stands for!
Email us at tafhelp@tafworld.org.
TAF2010: SUNDAY GREETINGS!
TAFers share what they are looking forward to this week.