Flashback Friday

Today I want to do a Flashback Friday and talk about something from the past.

In high school, there was this thing called "Spirit Week." It was probably the most important week of the school year, and we all spent months preparing for it. We had different competitions throughout the week, dress-up days, a canned food drive, and hallway decorating.

And it was awesome.

I remember staying after school many nights to work on things for the hallway. Each year we picked a theme and went with it. I cannot remember all of our themes...but the one that sticks out to me was senior year when we created an amusement park, complete with a roller-coaster car (made out of cardboard, of course). We spent hours working on it. The night before the competition, everyone stayed after school to put the decorations up in the hallway. It was a crazy rush of activity with everyone running around trying to get things done before the 9pm deadline.

I remember being pushed around the school in a shopping cart that night by one of the teachers as we rushed to get supplies back and forth. I remember music blasting while we painted and built our final pieces. I remember running to walmart and clearing out their canned food section (since the food drive was going on at the same time) and the cashiers looking at us like we were nuts.

Spirit week was an excuse for us all to have fun and do silly things. I remember Allie and I dressing up as pirates for career day. The class of 2007 picked black as our class color my junior year so that we would have a color that everyone would have. I remember bringing extra shirts to school and throwing them at people during 1st period so they could wear the designated color and be counted towards our point value.

I remember my junior year when we won. Up until that point, the senior class always won spirit week. But we worked so hard to win, and then came back and did it again for our senior year.

I'm not sure why spirit week popped into my head today. But it was certainly a fun trip down memory lane.