TAKE A BREATHER...

Photo Edit: Litty Samuel

COLLEGE DAY ON THE PARKWAY
Litty Samuel
Culture, Concerts, and Cool Kids, “oh my!” It’s time to take a study break, so slide your books under the bed and get out of Kansas, Dorothy! The City of Philadelphia, and Campus Philly welcomes back the thousands of students returning and entering another year of college.

So, before classes start to really break your back, head down to the Parkway, and enjoy a day full of new meet and greets, concerts from bands like Cool Kids, Twelve Twenty, Armor for Sleep, Victor Victor Band, and more.

No cash…No worries! Admission is free with your college I.D.
College Day at the Parkway is expecting around 15,000 students from all over Philadelphia for this one-day event, so don’t miss out on the fun.

WANT MORE INFO...?
http://www.campusphilly.com/collegeday/

RESTAURANT REVIEW

Photo Edit By: Litty Samuel

Successful Chef-Owner Bruce Cooper takes an interesting route when it comes to casual American dining with his second restaurant, Cooper’s Brick Oven Wine Bar. With an open kitchen placed in the center of the dining area, customers look on and take a whiff of chefs preparing fresh pizza in the brick oven.

Grab a seat on the side of the restaurant to find yourself immersed in warm natural light from the floor to ceiling windows, which gives you a full glance onto Main Street. Order a slice of one of Cooper’s interesting blends of flavors on a pizza. Try this combination of ham & egg, Benton’s ham, baked egg, spinach, onion, and bourbon maple.

If you’re not so much in the pie mood, try the smoked salmon, which is smoked trout, watercress, cucumber, apple, and lemon-dill aioli. The food is affordable, and filling where lunch and dinner will be served every day. Breakfast will be served on the weekends

LOCATION: 4367 Main Street in Manayunk

A "GOOD FEELING"

It happens once in a while, where every hot blooded human is struck with an unexpected “good feeling.” There is not direct definition of a “good feeling” and therefore, I will describe it for you.

LITTY'S DEFINITION:

A good feeling is an emotion that is brought on by a thought or a moment from one’s life. One can think about it, analyze it, and then if it is a fond recalling of moments, then it results in a demure side smirk smile, which is unnoticeable to any passerby. A true “good feeling” is quiet, and modest…if you are overly excited…then I think that might be a “great feeling!” Haha…

LITTY'S "GOOD" FEELING" EXPERIENCE:

I was walking up a bustling 12^th street in the middle of Temple University, Philadelphia. Through my over-sized charmingly named “bumblebee” sunglasses, I glanced over to Anderson Strip (an outside eatery at Temple), and noticed it was just about dinner time.

“Jeezz….I’m old!” I thought

I didn’t recognize a single person out of the possible 100 who were waiting, and eating on their food. I thought about how lucky these freshmen are to have a “fresh” start to their college degrees. To have four years to decide on whom they’d want to become before being thrown out into the real world.

• I thought about how much I struggled with a major…
• How much I messed up…
• How I was so indecisive…
• All this, before I heard the still voice of the Lord

• I remembered how much I HATED BIOLOGY…
• How I was so persistent to stay in there…
• How I felt so trapped…How the Lord LITERALLY had to drag me out…

Thoughts were swarming all around inside, while I composed a steady walk, behind huge shaded glasses, up a never ending 12^th street. Crossing the street I glanced, in passing, to my left at the Bio Life Building. Suddenly, everything seemed to travel in slow motion…

“My goodness, I don’t have to go in there anymore,” I thought to myself. “I’m free…I’m free…I never have to look at another chromosome, bacteria, plant chlorophyll, or stupid dead pig and identify its crappy, slimy duodenum!”

I quickly turned to the front with my unchanged, steady pace, and let out a sigh of relief. I bowed my head slightly to the ground, looked at the floor, and gave a small unknowing side smirk, which I caught about 5 seconds later.

“God is so good to me,” I thought.

And All I could Whisper was, "I love you...”

ANOTHER GOOD FEELING...

WELCOME TO THE WORLD KAYLA GRACE OSBORN!