Homecoming copypasta.
Posted on: March 31, 2009, at 09:55:50pm

Please, if this breaks any rules and deserves to be locked or is simply spammed too much then please lock this topic. I'm sure the usual idiocy will occur in this thread.

Now there are few things I truly have unconditional hate for in this world as I'm generally open to anything, but my school has managed to give me a serious dose of rage.

Now to begin I'd like to talk about the whole week and it's hype, the activities surrounding it, and the general attitude towards the dance from all the sophomores and upper classmen. Basically ever since we entered school we've been told how amazing this week is supposed to be, how much fun the dance will be, and how awesome the last year was. So, naturally everyone got pretty damn excited about the whole affair. In almost every seminar class we've been doing something to contribute to the experience of this week. We would make costumes for "field day" and write our "song" and "cheer" and each class would be recruiting and training kids for activities during field day. So, this means that a great many people spent a hell of a lot of time working on this crap.

Now let's do a rundown of how this week went. First off it's a 4 day week consisting of the following: Twin Day, Super Hero Day, Pajama Day, Field Day, and finally a day off of school for the Homecoming dance.

Twin Day: Well... not much really happens these first three days, just people dressing the way it seems, as twins. So yeah. Just a bit of an odd day to see a few identical people throughout the day.

Super Hero Day: This would have been far more interesting had they mentioned the fact that we are actually able to dress in costumes, but no; everyone went through the weeks leading up to this thinking that we'd just wear a t-shirt or something similar with a hero on it. Naturally people took this a bit far and wore... politcal shirts in a school where very few people either care or are able to vote in the presidential elections. Don't try to explain how either candidates are like Super Man, as I will not listen to it.

Pajama Day: Wooo, people just didn't dress for school. Too bad it had to be pajama day or I would have gone to school butt naked.

Field Day: This was one of the two things that were supposed to be really fun during this week. We spent weeks preparing for this day... so why did it suck so bad? We basically finished our school day at 12:00 got in our themed costumes (Freshmen:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sophomores:The Hulk, Juniors:Spider Man, Seniors:Bat Man) and went down to the gym where people were screaming chants or just simply yelling to be heard. So our 600 person Freshman class had to try and cram into a 50 foot wide 8 row set of bleachers. Needless to say we were quite cramped. We then got to listen to a huge amount of announcements and then we did our cheer and song. It's not fun to listen to 600 bored Freshmen sing or chant about how we're teenage freshmen ninja turtles and how we're supposed to be superior to the sophomores. It's worse when the other classes did the same in their equally -blam!- chants and songs. Then we got to events and we basically watched random people do random physical competitions with their opposing class. I sat through three of these and then saw my seminar teacher looking for a volunteer to compete and I thought "Why not? I'm not having fun as it is, so I might as well join in." Unfortunately the guy I was going to replace found his way back and I was left outside the gym with nothing to do, but go back to that hellish din of 2,000 screaming teens and their boring events, so I just walked around for 2 hours of boredom without my ears being raped any longer. Maybe I need to have school spirit to enjoy it, but I really don't buy into that stuff.

Now on to the Homecoming Dance. The event that was supposed to be life changing, hell it was almost as hyped up in our school as Halo 3 was prior to release! I'll say right now that I want the $25 admission given back to me and a few hundred dollars given to me for almost forcing me to stay at the damn thing. I went in, paid the admission fee and went down to the gym where the dance was being held. So I went in with my small group of friends and we were treated to some very loud rave music. This wasn't so bad and I could see people listening to it, but immediately after a rap song came on. So, we decided not to dance until it went off as it was the mainstream crap you tend to hear which makes most people hate rap. Unforetunately what we thought would be a random exception turned out to be the only kind of music they would play besides some very poor pop music. There was no underground rap being played, only lesser known mainstream rap songs attempting to garner the fame of everyone's favorite mainstream rapper Soulja Boi. This continued without end for what I believe was two and a half hours straight with the only exceptions being 4 minutes of Thriller and Don't Stop Believin'. That was quite simply ear -blam!-.

That alone wasn't enough though. Our $25 admission fee covered drinks and food. So this must be pizza and soda right? RIGHT? Wrong, it was sugar free grocery brand cookies and water from a drinking fountain. Then we must have paid for a DJ and the lights right? Well I sure hope not, because I think the school rented some 4 huge amps and hooked them up to a computer with iTunes and had 2 administrators cycle through a playlist and the lights were just a disco ball and a few randomly spinning and color changing lights. And then there was the dancing... oh god. Just imagine 1,000 kids with very poor taste in music, who have no idea what the concept of dance is beyond simply moving or grinding all simultaneously dancing to very very poor quality music with basic beats. Then imagine that they all somehow know the lyrics to every song except the aforementioned 2 exceptions. So, I was treated to the sight and sounds of 1,000 kids wriggling in a huge mass singing random rap and pop songs and I paid to go to this.

There's so much that I could talk about as far as what happened at the dance that simply bored my friends and myself out of our minds and that garnered out collective hatred, but I could rant on that for hours longer. So, I'll leave it with three simple lessons that I've learned from this and a single rule I need to remember to follow:
Never ever believe the hype of anything no matter what it is. You can only be dissapointed.
1) My school has worse taste in music then I thought it did. Rap, Pop, and disney pop idol music is all they seem to enjoy.
2) Never go to any school event held by my high school ever again.
3) No one there can dance. I did the thriller dance basic steps during Thriller (I was dressed pretty much like a darker Michael Jackson, so what could I do? I also do know the dance pretty well since I had to do it in a play I was in over the summer, so I gave it a shot.) and a crowd formed around me and some people tried to join me... How hard is slide, shimmy, zombie claws, back step, and a simple march to do? People tripped, fell, and simple failed at all attempts to do this very simple dance and generally interfered with my own performance. Ugh.

I hope your high school dances were slightly better if you attended them. Once more, I feel like I should have been paid to be there because I felt like I needed to stay because of my friends and my own investment and the simple hope of it ever improving. That was simply terrible in every sense of the word.

Please excuse my spelling, but it's 1:48 right now... Oh my what a wall of text... Once again if this should be locked then please do with all due haste.