My reaction was nothing like that, for the record. Instead of being the traditional lazy American school my school decided to remind all of the students who still came to school how the teachers had power over us. As you may have guessed, this was not the best way to end my junior year.
If I was a participant in Miss America and asked "What is your perfect last day of school?" I would have to say it would be a day of relaxation, hanging with my friends and getting people to sign my yearbook.
However, I am not a contestant, my opinion was never asked and field day commenced, unlike my sister schools.
The day started as any other over inspirational school day does: a slideshow. For those of you who have never witnessed a high school slideshow is mainly consists of the same five people in every picture. This occurrence is due mainly because those five are friends with the photographer. [actually I appeared in the last "dance" photo, and I wasn't even looking at the camera , which makes it somewhat embarrassing.] Immediately afterward we were told how field day would work...which was silly because no one remembered the rules and they had to be reexplained.
Regardless of all of the nice air conditioned splendor, my homeroom was the first to be sent out into the field.
The grand total of people present in my homeroom: 3!!!!!!! [YOU'RE A WINNER!] Except not, because with three girls who would rather be inside and a team who was dangerously into winning there was absolutely no chance of achieving anything.
I was prepared! Thinking about this whole field day facade, which wasn't a facade at all but I was just really hoping it was a joke, I had planned ahead and worn a skirt and a tube top. Nothing athletic would be happening today.
The first activity was three-way tug-of-war [it was three-way because there were three different teams in each group of homerooms.] Luckily we had some big strong boys imported and they played that. So I successfully avoided one activity, with the exception of the instructor being clever and calling for a round with only three girls on each rope. We lost on purpose, so it's alright, no effort involved.
The second was, dare I say it, a sponge activity. It's the kind of "game" where you take a sponge and try to get water from one bucket to another. I volunteered to participate once, at which point as I was running and heard my History teacher call "C'mon Dara!" I responded with "I am wearing a skirt, this is not happening." I quickly avoided the second round when I declared myself the official photographer.
The third, oh no. It was some silly dribbling thing, in honor of the World Cup, I sat down in the grass and took more pictures.Ah, the fourth, I actually did this one. :) It was Bandanna Tag, which is flag football, minus the football. I like this game because it is easy to get out. Then the final game was avoided by not acknowledging it at all. I later met up with all of my friends and ate/drank melting ice pops.
You probably didn't want to know all of this information, but the reason I made this post is because today does not feel like the last day of school. I think I know why. Because I did not sit inside and discuss what my plans were for the summer and I didn't get upset about not seeing some people, I was completely detached from the whole idea of summer. My friends and I walked from the back of the school and almost immediately got onto our buses. It was as if I was never in school at all.
Well anyway, I guarantee that the sophies will not have to do this terrible activity. Yay them. This was a really long post, go me! Go you, if you got this far!
XDara
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