{"id":12137,"date":"2026-07-21T20:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T01:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/?p=12137"},"modified":"2026-08-04T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:45:31","slug":"listen-spit-list-cards-spark-smiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/07\/listen-spit-list-cards-spark-smiles\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: Spit List cards spark smiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"12137\" class=\"elementor elementor-12137\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-672602b6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"672602b6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a82d823 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5a82d823\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><iframe title=\"LISTEN: Spitlisters&#039; cards spark smiles by Medill Cherubs\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2365539395&show_artwork=true&maxheight=1000&maxwidth=800\"><\/iframe><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>[ALARM SOUNDS]<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On her last weekend, Lucie van Kwawegen of Brooklyn, New York was among a group of cherubs who woke up at 6 a.m. to complete their Spit List activity: writing cards to other cherubs.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LUCIE VAN KWAWEGEN: I did not want to get up. I had had like a late night before hanging out with my friends. At 5:45 a.m. I was exhausted. But then I go downstairs and I\u2019m like, I see all these faces of people who are again, dead inside, and then they know what we\u2019re gonna do, which is writing cards for fellow cherubs. And I was like, well, this is an actual productive activity, and I think that it\u2019s a way to, you know, bring joy within the cherubs community.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[CAAS TALKING]<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spitlisters spent an hour in the Great Room writing cards to the instructors, CAAs and all 90 cherubs. They crowded over a single computer to sign up for their friends\u2019 cards on Google Sheets. Cherub Alice Xiao of Beijing wrote to her close friend Emmeline Chan of Los Angeles, but struggled forming sentences so early in the morning.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ALICE XIAO: My brain\u2019s not functioning at 6 a.m., so I have a lot of grammar mistakes. I was actually pretty moved by the process because I got to rethink about a lot of wonderful memories that I\u2019ve made with my friends.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[WRITING\/PAPER SOUND]<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Spitlisters slipped their completed cards under each cherub\u2019s door before they woke up. Emmeline called Alice immediately after finding the blue card addressed to her on her floor.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">EMMELINE CHAN: I was like, &#8216;Oh my gosh what is this? This is so sweet of her.&#8217; I didn\u2019t realize till later that it was a Spit List activity. I thought she just felt like writing me a letter and I thought it was really sweet, and she had put a lot of effort into it and had even drawn some like doodles in it that were really cute.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cherub Lucy Camp of Mountain View, California, received a card from two cherubs whom she had only talked to a few times, but she still felt appreciative of the messages.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LUCY CAMP: I felt like I was noticed a little bit\u2026 I was tempted for a second to write a return card to be like &#8216;hi,&#8217; cause I definitely know that being able to have nice things written about you and nice things written for you \u2026 it raises your spirits a little bit.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As cherubs head into the final week of the program, their Spit List cards will give them a way to remember the program and the friendships they have built.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">EMMELINE CHAN: Dear Emmeline<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LUCIA LONGSTREET-LIPSON: Hi Wen Lusha<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ALICE XIAO: Dear Alice<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">EMMELINE CHAN: This summer program would have been so hard without you. I feel so lucky to have met such a nice supportive friend.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DAISY XIAO: [Daisy speaking Mandarin] \u201cbest summer of your life\u201d.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LUCIA LONGSTREET-LIPSON: We\u2019ve had so much fun in this program, walking in different places to get food, eating our cake and mostly hanging out in the basement and doing handstands.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ADELLE PITTS: Have a great winter.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SOPHIA THOMAS: I believe what makes you particularly special, among other things, of course, like your exasperation at the hexagon video game, is the balance you strike between making perceptive comments during lectures and laughing because you don\u2019t take yourself too seriously.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ALICE XIAO: I\u2019m going to miss you a lot, especially since you\u2019re going to be so far away.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[CHERUB THEME]<\/span><\/p><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music provided by @prettyjohn1 on Pixabay<\/span><\/i><\/p><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keyboard sounds courtesy of DRAGON-STUDIO on Pixabay<\/span><\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to how cherubs gathered on Sunday to write messages to staff and fellow cherubs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":11060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[714],"class_list":["post-12137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-audio"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":714,"user_id":370,"is_guest":0,"slug":"yao26","display_name":"Hanning Yao","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/db3dfa583c2d2f6ddb126007dec34bce0ea4cb259a8f8133d9696bd94a08975c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Yao","first_name":"Hanning","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12137"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13176,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12137\/revisions\/13176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12137"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=12137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}