Pepcoming, my personal portmanteau for the week of Dover High School’s Pep Rally and Homecoming, is finally over. It has been a huge drain on me over the last week, since I put a ton of work into it, and I’m glad to be able to get back to my life. But, I have a few things to share.
I had a huge part in the events this year, especially with the Pep Rally. It was my personal mission to make sure that everyone in the room was able to hear the Masters of Ceremonies. Two years ago, there were speakers hanging from the ceiling of the Dover Gymnasium, where the Pep Rally is held, to be used for the ceremony. Unfortunately, after re-doing the Gym’s lighting, the speakers were never put back up. Last year, this was discovered too late, and the ceremony was awful because no one was able to hear anything. To keep that from happening again, I embarked on a personal quest to find the missing speakers and buy enough cable to spread them around so that everyone could hear. I was successful in this, but it almost killed me. Between locating speakers, buying cable, taping it down to the floor, making sure it worked, and verifying that no one sabotaged my setup, I was stressed. It is now my personal mission to lobby for those speakers to be put back up in the Gym so that my successors never have to do what I did.
This year’s Pep Rally was the best and most insane one I’ve ever seen in my life. An all-out pseudo-brawl broke out between the Seniors (in Sparta) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Juniors. No one was hurt, and it was amazing. Also, in comparison to last year, I was much more comfortable talking in front of people, and had fun with it. When the melee began, I yelled into the microphone, “This is madness!” and was met by a resounding, “This! Is! Sparta!” Awesome.
The Homecoming dance was pretty swell, too. The turnout paled in comparison to last year’s; it should be noted, however, that there was a lot working against us. The Homecoming football game wasn’t even held at the high school, due to track renovations, and Dover lost the game, depleting morale. We tried something new, and ordered two large sheet cakes for the dance. That was definitely a mistake; by the end of the dance we were giving it away. This certainly isn’t caketown.
Wow, why do teams ALWAYS lose the homecoming game? For example: BHS’s Homesucking (portmanteau of Homecoming & Sucking) Game:
We were ahead THE WHOLE GAME. Last 1/4: They caught up….almost. Last few seconds: Possession passes, touchdown, Brewster loses.
I hardly call two anecdotes “ALWAYS”.
Ahh. The beauty of the AP Language course. Thank you, Rick.
I said something similar, except at the time of speaking thus, carmel had lost it’s homecoming 4 years in a row.
And then they won.
At least someone won!
It has to be impossible for every highschool to lose it’s homecoming.
Impossible is an impossibility.