spirit week, maybe not so spirited.

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Last week, many schools in our area had “spirit week” a week of themed dress up days and lunch activities desinged to unite a grade and bring a week of school pride to the community.  At Newark Academy, we have a four day spirit week- followed by homecoming that Saturday.

Usually spirit week is all in fun, and maybe a little competitive… My grade (the juniors) won  the whole week our freshman and sophomore years, and tried once again to dominate the school in tug of war, a grade skit at the peprally, and decorations.  However, our seniors put up a real fight this year, and spirit week 08 proved to be the most competitive spirit week NA has seen in recent years.

The week began all fun and “spirited” but soon transformed into an overly competive, intense mess.  The seniors made it their duty to diss and insult the juniors at any possible moment, while the juniors spent ridiculous amounts of money on decorations and costumes in the hopes of impressing the faculty judges.  Both grades got WAY to into it, and predictably, tied for first place at the end of the week.

I had always remembered spirit week as an underclassmen to be a week of fun, not a week of stress and aggressiveness towards other grades.  The juniors and seniors were so neurotic and frustrated with a tie, we had to have a “tie breaker” today to decide a final winner.  A co-ed field hockey game was arranged as the deciding game (dumb I know) and the seniors came out victorious.

I don’t know about anyone else’s spirit week experiences, but our this year was just… INSANE.

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