The last three days of mixing and matching outfits, twinning, and repping your favorite sports team are now irrelevant. Well, for the most part anyway. It wasn't until today that everything got real. School color day is by far the most important day included in the entire Spirit Week. It's one of the few days a year that it is the norm and socially acceptable to paint football-style lines on your face and prance around in tutus. At my school, the freshman have this tradition. They all go to Burger King, get crowns, and spray paint them black. They write "FRESHMAN" or "freshlady" all over them and decorate them to their liking. It's a way of showing their "superiority" to the other grades I guess.
But my grade, the 8th grade, was not going down without a fight. In our section of the bleachers, it was a sea of white. I sat on the gym floor, close to the action with the other cheerleaders and some of the cutest guys in my grade, in my humble opinion. But, that's beside the point. I have never heard people scream and yell for one cause at school as loud as they did today. And, it was great. We found ways to try and upstage the freshmen on multiple occasions :)
In the end, we came in second place, only loosing by a few points. It was an outrage. When the 9th graders won, they all ran on to the gym floor to hold up the Spirit Trophy. For the next hour my Instagram feed was flooded with people taking selfies with the trophy. "OMG I TOUCHED IT!" Next Spirit Week, however, we are going to try our hardest, and if we beat the freshmen, we become legends.
...and if you happen to go to my school and you stumbled upon this post, comment what you think about the results of Spirit Week :)
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