WELL! This week has been a busy one. I’ll start back last saturday when our school band headed to grand island to march in the Harvest of Harmony parade. That certainly was a site to see. There were marching bands there from all over Nebraska. I thought our band was huge. I was SO wrong. Basically all these bands showed up and we all marched through the streets of Grand Island doing their thang while a bunch of flag girls danced around behind them. Our school played Safety Dance. I also thought our uniforms were cool but they’re NOTHING compared to what some of these schools had. I saw schools with cummerbunds, tail coats, ruffled shirts, gold lined pants...you name it! Our modest uniforms still looked pretty sharp though. I had a really fun day. It was an awesome experience, I loved every second of it.
<<Thats me!
About to march
Good ol’ Mr Rikert
Moving on. So the week that has just past was Homecoming Week, or Spirit Week. Each school day during spirit week there was a theme for dressing up. I tried to dress up every day. I did everyday but wednesday. Wednesday was lame. Every year Friday is always ‘red and white’ day. Friday is also the day of the big homecoming football game and a little tradition at Broken Bow is that all the girls have to wear a boys’ football jersey. I was not planning on taking part in this tradition. I’m not particularly good friends with any of the football players and the ones I am friends with had already promised their Jersey to another girl. I was planning on wearing a cross country jersey for the lols. So spirit week rolls around and I am informed that as a member of dance team I am obliged to wear a football jersey. By this point all the jerseys are pretty much gone. I ended up wearing the jersey of 5 foot freshman Tyrel. He is the football coaches son. It was a tight fit but it worked alright. So thats how that went down.
Anyway here is how my costumes went down.
Monday: Pj day. (Thats ma buddy Evan)
Tuesday: Super heroes and Villains (Bobby as Robin and myself as Catwoman)
Wednesday was ‘colour war’. Each grade has a colour and the grade wearing the most of their colour wins. Ours was ‘camo’. Lame. I did not take part.
Thursday: Blast from the past (80’s me, 70’s Adam)
Friday: Red and white day! (Karly, myself, Sydney)
My english class on red and white day
Quarterback of our football team Marcus and myself. It took
a lot of convincing to get him to let me take this photo.
My pal Aaron and I
So later that day everyone headed to the town square for our big pep rally. The band performed and so did cheerleaders, flag team and dance team. We watched our Assistant principal kiss a goat, heard some presentations and a bunch of other stuff. Then we got some free food and went home to get ready for the big game! Woohoo! We played the Gothenburg Swedes. And I played I mean we lost to the Gothenburg Swedes. Not a nice feeling losing your own homecoming game. The boys were pretty cut. After the most depressing game ever the homecoming king and queen candidates came out. They crowned prince and princess then after much anticipation the king and queen were announced! My buddy Patrick (patches) got King! Was quite the surprise but we were all very happy about it.
Homecoming candidates
The anticipation is killing them!
Nice blurry photo of the King and Queen
After the game there was the homecoming dance. Adam and I quickly nipped off to his house for a bite to eat before the dance. They said it finished at 12:30. We had plenty of time, right? Wrong. We rocked up around 11:50 and they said ‘once you leave you can’t come back in!’ we pleaded with them saying we hadn’t even been in yet. They thought we were full of rubbish and wouldn’t let us in. Oh well.
So thats what I’ve been up to this week! I might throw some more photos down the bottom for your enjoyment. Having a wonderful time. Love and miss everyone. Bye bye!
DANCE TEAM
Lexie, Krisha, baby and I
