This weekend I have had enough time to actually sit down and blog for the sole reason that this is (was?) homecoming weekend. The past week was Spirit Week at school, and thus, was a crazy week, as it is every year. Even with the seemingly benign spirit days, you never know what to expect. As themes go, this year was okay. Monday was Tie-Dye/Hippie Day, Tuesday was Senior Citizen vs Toddler Day, Wednesday was Western Day (formerly known as Cowboys vs Indians, and then Cowboys and Indians Day - I guess they didn't want to offend anyone or something), Thursday was Seasonal Holiday Day, and Friday was Black and Orange Day, as always. I participated in all but Senior Citizen vs Toddler day, which I thought was completely stupid. My favorite was Hippie Day, where I wore a maxi dress, a vest, a headband and live flower in my hair, and my mom's "Jesus Shoes." Minus any mind altering psychedelic drugs or pot, I thought I was pretty authentic. Thursday was probably the easiest day (other than black and orange) to dress up for, at least for my grade. Our seasonal holiday was Halloween, and I think that the people who came up with the Spirit Week days were thinking that we would only wear Halloween shirts or something like that, but we took it a step further. Basically my grade justified wearing anything they wanted to as a costume, which technically goes with the Halloween theme, if not what was originally intended. All in all last week was pretty interesting. Basically anything went - whether it was boys cross dressing and wearing short shorts and dresses, or a Native American costume that made you have a double take because it looked like they were only wearing a loin cloth.
On Friday, we had shortened days because of the pep assembly at the end of the day, which meant that for most classes, we did absolutely nothing. In my Honors English class, we watched the beginning of Beowulf until the fight scene between Beowulf and Grendel, which was quite interesting. For some reason, the people who made this movie decided that Beowulf was going to fight in the nude, so whenever there might have been a full frontal view, they strategically placed items such as elbows, candles, and swords. They had no problem with showing the back side, for some reason. I don't think the movie was supposed to be funny, but I couldn't stop laughing because it was so ridiculous. For example, one character's title was "Virgin Violator" - nice, isn't it? The only class we actually did work was probably my AP Biology class. In my AP Chemistry class, I had already finished the problems, so for the whole hour I did nothing, except for the occasional assistance of my classmates. The pep assembly itself was pretty disappointing. Later that night, I walked in the homecoming parade with Green Group, something I haven't done (walking in the parade, that is) since first grade or something. We didn't have any candy with us, so the kid along the way, who were quite demanding, by the way, were a little disappointed. After the parade, I watched the game in the student section, where, if you wanted to see anything, you had to stand up the whole game, except half-time. Needless to say, by the end of the day, my feet hurt and I was exhausted.
Yesterday was a long day, too. At noon, my dad left to go to the airport, where he is flying to Japan, then South Korea for a business trip. Unfortunately, that meant that he missed seeing me off to the Homecoming dance later that day. I actually went over to a friend's house, were a bunch of us got ready, and then invited the parents over, who took a bunch of pictures. The hardest was one were we stood in a circle and then took pictures of our shoes. I wore a vintage dress that I had bought a year ago that was black (I know, surprise...) and lacy, black 5 inch platform heels, and a red belt and necklace. A picture of the ensemble is above. The dance itself was okay. It was a little crowded, and everyone kept on wandering off, so that we spent half our time looking for people. They placed the DJ in the middle of the gym, but when you were in front of it, you couldn't hear anything. There is a good reason for that - the speakers were facing the other direction! In the adjoining gym, where refreshments were being served, they had live goldfish and some idiots actually ate them!!!! I know, disgusting! You would think that we would be mature enough to leave the fish alone, but apparently not. Also, they had signs up to spell summer, because the theme was seasons, but the s sign fell down, and no one put it back up, so it spelled "ummer." By the end of the night, I was ready to go home and fall asleep. And that is pretty much the extent of my involvement in Homecoming week and weekend.
