::laughs::
For a brief second, you guys are making me all sentimental and "i miss high school"-y and then I think back to all the BS associated with HS and i think.
God I'm glad to be out :-)
I went to a somewhat small, high school in a rural community, so some of our stuff doesn't even compare to what i've been reading......
let's see.
Homecoming Theme Days, Usually there was an overall theme, and each class had to think of their own subtheme....for example.....one year it was Movies and there was "Wizard of Oz, Batman, Grease, and the Flintstones" (we were batman) Each grade decorated their hall and made class tshirts....(we won the hall decorating contest for batman, it was great. We also did floats and had pj day and purple and white day (our colors). We had powerpuff my junior year, it was cancelled my senior year (we were pissed) and it started again after I graduated. My junior year, the seniors pulled a lot of isht that freaked the administration out and then when people not even associated with the senior class started stuff up again, they put the halt on the game the afternoon OF the game. We had already shelled out $40 for the sweats (we played in sweat pants and a hoodie) and had spent a couple months practicing. But the morning of the game, there was a running of the halls and the seniors and the juniors would start at opposite ends of the school and run through the halls, chanting and cheering, marking up underclassman with "01" or "02" (grad year) or "s" or "j" or just in whatever color each class had....a lot of time silly string in corresponding colors were used.....the younger kids usually really got into it and would be COVERED in marks by the end of the day.....(if a senior marked an S, usually juniors would attack and mark a J over it, and then the seniors would remark, etc etc etc) I remember our class cheers.. "S E N I O R S, seniors seniors seniors" "2 0 0 1, we're the class of 01 go seniors!"
We had "official skip day" the monday after prom......our parents sponcered an afterprom party and then an afterprom party after party trip to Cedar Point.......they really wanted to keep us occupied...but we didn't usually get back from CP until about 9pm sunday night, so we were all exhausted.
In drama, we used to do this thing called "Husha" which is hilarious, because we'd keep it a big secret and tell all the new people it's where we have our secret sacrifices to the theater gods.....::rolls her eyes:: if you stood outside the room during husha, you'd believe it....basically it's just an unwinding before the show...we all go into the prop room, and there's some stuff done, that's confidental (hey, i kind of treat it like my fraternities rituals) but it's FAR from bad, it's bonding..and then we all scream and yell and beat the cupboards to get out our nerves and anxities before the show. We also had candle after the last show before the wrap party. That I can't really tell you about, but i can tell you what I told people it was :-) I would tell the new kid that I had become good friends with (i wouldn't tell this to someone that didn't know me well ::laughs:: it might have scared them severely) that candle is where we pour hot wax on their hands to work on composure. ::grins:: man, i was evil......
We also had a theater ghost, supposedly, but who knows about that......
Class tourney was great, it was field day, but grade vs grade.....no question, seniors won all the time, but it was great....it was an all day thing and had everything from jello wrestling, to tug of war, to pillow jousting, to lip sync, to trivia contest, to soccer, basketball, track, volleyball, and egg toss...there was also hall decorations, but those usually took back stage to everything else. It was fun, but the tradition was starting to lose steam by my senior year, i think it might be gone :-( I hate to see traditions die like that
~*~Mandie~*~
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