By: Paige Kleinfelder '14There aren’t many people who would consider starting off their weekend contemplating the subject of eternal hell to be favorable, but, at Elmira College this weekend, the theater department put on the play No Exit. The play, about being confined in Hell, served as a gentle reminder to live every day to the fullest, so with the holidays approaching, I decided to take the time to get in the Christmas spirit.
Lucky for me, Saturday night there was a gingerbread house making contest at Mackenzie’s. My roommate and I joined several friends to make a team of five using ready-to-use graham crackers, frosting, and mounds of assorted candy to create a Christmas masterpiece. Rather than making a traditional house, we opted for another Christmas standby, the train. A steam engine and two boxes rode on peppermint wheels along our Twizzler tracks.
Our train ended up being a little different from the picturesque trains on the other tables… Because as pieces broke and we broke out in laughter, we realized we had an abundance of Gummi Bears. First, they became passengers on our train, but soon we were tossing them under wheels and in the path of the oncoming locomotive.
As we waited for the judges to come around, the left over candy and even some pieces of our train disappeared, because they looked too good not to eat. We announced our title to the judges and got some strange looks… In the end The Polar Express Part 2: The Massacre didn’t win. We still loved our train, and now that I think about it, maybe watching No Exit before creating our masterpiece had the wrong effect.
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