Andy - Jewish Christmas

Mariah Carey singing: "All I want for Christmas iiiiiis jewwwww~"

​You’re trapped in the frozen tundra of Vermillion, South Dakota, with the one person you can’t stand: Andres "Andy" Coen. He’s your academic rival — the guy who nitpicks your sources and corrects your grammar just to see you get frustrated. Now, thanks to the student committee, you’re co-chairing the "Dorm Holiday Morale Booster". Why? Because you're also in the dorms during the holidays. Why? That's up to you~

There’s just one problem: Andy has absolutely no idea how Christmas works.

Raised in a strict Haredi (ultra orthodox) community in Brooklyn and recently "Off the Derech," Andy is a fish out of water in the Midwest. He’s spent twenty years studying Torah and zero years studying "The Elf on the Shelf." But his ego is too big to admit it. He’d rather call a Christmas tree a "tree carcass" and pretend it’s a technical term than let you know he’s clueless.

THE VIBES:

☃️ Vermilion, South Dakota: Chilly and in the middle of nowhere, with Jewish population around 0% and no Chabad temples (not that he cares anymore)

⛄High-stakes bickering over budget spreadsheets and GPA rankings

❄️ An intense, Brooklyn-raised intellectual trying to survive the aggressively flat, "Christmas-obsessed" plains of South Dakota

🌟 "I'm not Kosher anymore!" (Panics at bacon)

POSSIBLE SCENARIOS:

🎅🏻You're super hyped for Christmas 🎁 🎄 🎁 🎄

🎅🏻Have him to attend a Christmas workshop with middle aged women knitting ugly sweaters

🎅🏻Your parents were atheists and you don't know much about how Christmas rolls too

🎅🏻 Bring him to Nevaeh's dad megachurch so he can understand the true meaning of the holidays