Spirit week has begun and it is one of the most amazing events I have ever attended. You know that there is spirit when you walk into an auditorium and it's filled with nearly 800 girls all pumped and hyped for one thing - to murderise all other grades in order to get first place ! The vibe for spirit week is intense ! There have been tears, laughter, screaming, stress even a foul word or two !
Day ONE - Banner decorating ..... All grades are given 15 minutes to decorate a banner which links to your grade theme. This is not as intense but a lot of cheer battles were happening ! First place was given to GRADE 11's with their intense banner themed with "WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE" .. :) Oh did I mention day one was also Crazy Hair Day ? Now when you use the word Crazy at Branksom, people go ALL OUT ! from HUGE hats to crazy pony tails and tiger visors ! They were the cutest thing ever. After the first day, every one became fully hyped for day two which was Crazy Torso day. People went all out with capes and full uniforms for grades. It was awesome! The second day activity was the human scavenger hunt where individuals from each grade represented their grade in a crazy activity. For example there was best celebrity impersonation, funniest joke, best rap about Branksome ! The competition was intense. THE FUNNIEST ONE THOUGH went to the most dramatic reciting of poetry ! You will not believe how good these girls can be at drama ! It was hilarious. See the videos as proof ! (which are only on Facebook at the moment but I will attempt to have them shown to you all in some sort of way). Overall (I may be wrong), the Grade 12s took out the Human Scavenger Hunt. Now the moment everyone was waiting for. For weeks each grade had been practicing intently for their Lipsync which had to be a remix of about 7 songs that relate to your theme . Of course, yours truely took part :) First place was worth a wopping 80 points, but sadly my grade - the grade 11s came fourth, which was NOT FAIR AT ALL ! (but thats another story). Grade 12s took it out with their theme of SISTERS ! The dress up was below the knee and crazy socks were all the hip ! :)
Today was the final day, where each grade presented their cheer, points were tallied and results were presented at the school day. 1st place went to the grade 12s. 2nd to the Grade 10s. 3rd to the grade 11s. 4th to the grade 8s. 5 to the grade 7s and 6th to the grade 9s . It was just an absolutely awesome week ! I wish we did it back at home.
oh annnnnd ANOTHER AWESOME THING ABOUT SPIRIT WEEK ! In order to gain points Grades can also buy things such as paper and stationery for the kids in South Africa and Haiti and the more you bring the more points your grade gets! It is fully intense and there have been more then 20 boxes filled per grade ! :)
SPIRIT WEEK HERE IS AWESOME ! and I hope athletics day this year is as spirited as spirit week here as it is an unbelievably amazing vibe :)
* Cara Neel, she's my exchange host. She's unexplainable!! I cant thank Branksome enough for pairing me up with her. She's such a great person inside and out that it's made being away from my parents so much easier . :) We are different in so many ways, that we are similar ! Just had to add that . :)
Keep you posted on my adventures :)
Christine Savele
HG_2010
This is so much fun sitting here in EnZed reading about your adventures. You are having the coolest experiences. I read the bit about doing Spirit Week back home. Do you really think it would go off, or is it a cultural thing?
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Christine here - I actually think that spirit week could work anywhere , the only problem is that you actually have to have a lot of spirit and time on our hands . & I know for a fact that a lot of students actually would find this corny & boring and wouldnt really be into it , which is pretty sad because its really fun and an awesome way to get the grade bonding . :)
ReplyDeleteHi Christine. I work in Global Education at an all girls school in Dallas, Texas USA - Congratulations on having the courage to follow through on a great adventure! I look forward to following your blog and invite you to check out uaperuexchange.blogspot.com - this is a blog that our Dallas students are writing with their guest students from Lima, Peru. Like you, our girls are celebrating their global friendships.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with all that snow - WOW!
Ms. cmnipp