After several weeks of waking up before the sun rises and hours of homework, the “back to school” excitement wears off. Students need an event to keep them excited to come in and learn. Thus, enter spirit week and pep rally, where they dress to match a wacky theme, and on Friday their school day ends early for a thrilling pep rally.
This year, spirit week only consisted of four themes, since we have off on Wednesday. Monday is “Pajama Day,” Tuesday is “Tropical Tuesday,” Thursday is “USA Day,” and Friday is class colors. Everybody seems to be a fan of pajama day, said sophomore Michael Hawkins. “I’d like to see pajama day again,” he said. Michael suggested that future spirit weeks contain themes such as Super Hero Day, in which students would dress as their favorite superhero. He also suggested Throwback Thursday, where students wear articles of clothing that may have been fashionable in the past. Senior Doug Levy claimed that “you can’t go wrong with Team Jersey Day.” He also enjoyed Crazy Hat Day and Twin Tuesday in the past.
After a week of strange outfit choices, students get to blow off
some steam and get loud at the annual pep
rally. Highlights included appearances by all the fall sports teams, an epic guitar performance of the national anthem by Joey Femia, dancing, and of course the infamous “go home freshman” chants that break out each year. Junior Kyle Laguardia’s favorite part is always “when the whole gym gets riled up and loud.” This year several air horns and vuvuzelas were present in the stands to add to the noise. Throughout the preparation of Pep Rally, the students in the Sophomore Class Council worked closely and decorated our sophomore section of the gym. This was not a daunting task but a lot of effort was needed to make sure the section was decorated to the likes of the students.
Decorating an entire section is not as easy as it seems. Many things had to be taken into consideration such as the wall space we had for posters, the arrangement of the balloons, and also the streamers. These supplies are paid for by the participants in the club and also fundraising. Students would go home and work hard on posters that are appealing and fun and also demonstrate their graduation class. Olivia Lefko, Vice President of the SCC says, “Although the days leading up to pep really were stressful, the help I received from the club members, older and younger, was awesome and extremely helpful! The event turned out wonderfully as did the homecoming parade on Saturday morning.” The week leading up to pep rally excites people and gets them ready to face the rest of the school year.
