Summer’s Greetings!

Happy Summer, everybody!
I was just sittin’ here with Brandon and Tommy, one of our faces, doin’ some artz & craftz and we got to thinkin’ about our team whom we love so much. Now we realize that many of you are stuck in your respective homes away from the bronx and miss your felllow flying jesuits dearly. Therefore, we thought we’d give you a few suggestions for some fun summer activities that will help soothe that pain. We’ve tested all of these ideas ourselves already this summer, so listen up, it’s worth it.

1. Ride a bike. Often, when you ride bikes, you have a lot of fun. Especially if you do it with a teammate. That picture up there is from a park, under the Manhattan Bridge. There’s surprises everywhere! You just have to explore and find them!

2. Drink sodas on your front stoop. This is a great way to meet neighbors, especially on a nice day. If you call over a fellow flying jesuit, it’s especially groovy! Make sure you’re careful and don’t wander away or the police might getchya!

3. Go to a park with sodas and arts and crafts. When you mix sodas with arts and crafts, it’ll turn a summer-day into a heaven-day. You could fly a kite, walk a dog, toss a disc, play with a flying jesuit, or just sit there! Sometimes a lot of people are at the park and they’re all very nice. Turtles, too.

4. Go to a beach.

5. And if you can’t reach one, make one!
We’ll tell you how:

15 Days Left

It’s true, Savannah is only 15 days away. I hope you’re as excited as I am, because we are going to be very close friends after this trip. Now, you might be thinking, “Oh, gosh, spring break is so close and there must be some things to be done!” Well, you’re right. Here’s a few things you should consider before you get in your respective vehicle to leave for the lovely beaches of Savannah:

1.) Sign up for the UPA. This is very important, because we are going to play frisbee down there too.
2.) Find out if you can help make the trip happen by donating a car (or more). We would rather not spend more money renting vans, so you should ask around. Tell Liz if you get a car.
3.) Don’t shave.
4.) Tell your friends. If you know a friend that doesn’t have spring break plans, see if they’d be willing to cough up $200 for the most fun vacation of their adolescence.
5.) Pack for frisbee. Pack for the beach. Pack for St. Patty’s day celebrations. Pack for your inevitable hangover.
6.) Sign up for the UPA.

Now if you want to see the house we are staying at, go to maps.google.com and check out the street view feature at 4 11th Street, Tybee Island, GA (it’s the house on the south of the street).

The Beaches of Savannah

Fourteen hours down 95,
Spring is here, I feel alive.
Like the swallow I travel south,
Heading for the Atlantic’s mouth.
And to think, last night, I wandered our Bronx,
Dreaming of beaches, lined with docks.

On the road and our spirits fly high,
We’ve left our school, we’ve said our byes.
Nothing ahead but the big blue sky,
Sandy beaches, and a relieving sigh.
And to think, last night, I wandered our Bronx,
Dreaming of beaches, lined with docks.

The great cityscape which we left behind
Has morphed into fields and free minds.
Go for it, tie up that bandana,
Cause guess what, we’re goin’ to Savannah.
Odd to think that last night I wandered our Bronx.
I’ve found the beaches, I’ve found the docks.

Off-Season FUNditioning!

Dearest Flying Jesuits,

We know how much you have missed us over the past couple months, but worry no more. Frisbo time is back and the hour to rejuvenate our frozen relationships has arrived!

Starting this week, we will be having practice three (3) times a week, on Monday, Thursday, and Sunday nights. Mondays and Thursdays will be dedicated to restoring forgotten frisbee skills and strategy. And on Sundays we will most likely be doing some cross-training by playing a lil’ b-ball, or taking a dip in the nice, clean pool.

So get back in an ultimate mood, because Spring, the season of love, is almost here. We will be spending a lot more time together, and our never-ending network of passion will grow infinitely stronger. Along with our developing beach bods.

PADA Mosh

Heyo, this weekend is possibly the funnest tournament of the year, with the obvious exception of High Tide in Savannah. It’s PADA Mosh in Philadelphia! It’s a coed tourney with 30 mixed club teams on some polo fields, ideal for laying out and getting dirty. Plus the Fordham Alumni team will be there, probably drunk, so that will add all sorts of entertainment. Hope you’re excited.

Check out info from UPA.org here.
Also, on PADA’s site.
And here’s the schedule/brackets.

PSA: Avoideth the Squirrels

Oh, Rose Hill, how you taunt us with your black and gray squirrels. In the olde country of Missouri they are game. Yet in the Bronx, they are defenseless animals with whom one mustn’t trifle. Should you attack these furry decorations on our beautiful grounds, may you be, at the least, punished by death. Oh! Death! As ambassadors of our fine institution, we shall henceforth show the miniature monsters the utmost respect, regardless of the temptations that should arise.

WombaFest, October 18

Here we go, another tournament already. We’re going up to Saratoga Springs on Saturday, Oct. 18th for a one-day funfest hosted by the Skidmore College Wombats. And it’s the 39th Annual, so it’s gotta be real. It’s co-ed but you should come anyway because a day of ultimate is always fun! I don’t know much else about the tournament, but I assume we’ll get bagels and play frisbee. Hope you’re excited for an early wake-up on Saturday.

Check out deets on the UPA website and on the Wombat’s page and if you’re feeling reeeeeeeeeally wild, check out the Women Wombats.

First tournament!

Everyone should be rullll excited for our first tournament of the year, and for some, your VERY FIRST tournament of your LIFE…oooh this is wild.

For those of you who don’t know, the tournament is called Lemony Fresh and it’s in Warwick, RI and it’s barrels of fun. We’re leaving Friday evening, so make sure you put on some naughty clothes and get ready to bro real hard this weekend.

You can check out details here on the Lemony Fresh site, and if you are interested, the brackets and such are right here.

NEW DISC DESIGN

flyjes dis REALZZZ

Originally uploaded by afi_rock11

What do you guys think? I’m hoping we can raise some money and order these discs ourselves.

The school has a whole bunch of new rules that limit our design choices greatly because of the trademark and copyrights on the new Fordham logo…which we have to use if we want access to our budget.

We’re going to try to order some kind of discs very soon, so if you have any fundraiser ideas, let us know.

Great things…

The Roster is continually being updated, as is the Schedule. To those of you who are a part of the Flying Jesuits Organization, be proud and be happy that you are so privileged.