FRIDAY THE 14th
Tatiana Cerreta
May 19, 2010
Filed under Feature Page, News, Top Stories
Ever have one of those days that seems like it just keeps going on and on, event after event, there’s always something happening? Brashier students and staff experienced a day quite like this last week, coining it “Friday the 14th”. The schedule for the day was very energetic and packed full of things to do. The list included awards day, field day, yearbook signing, a surprise water fight, a barbeque under the tent, and to top it, Relay for Life.
The morning of the 14th, students everywhere filled the school wearing their “battle colors.” A sea of yellows, greens, blues, and reds crowded the front of the school and numerous battle cries and calls sounded throughout the school. “GREEN SQUAD!!!” yelled members of the green team, and “cooing” like a roster was very popular among red team members. “A whole group of us got together and made some awesome t-shirts for the green squad. We bought spray paint and made stencils. They were hot!” jokes Junior Andres Largacha.
Once all the teachers managed to herd all the hyped up members of the rainbow to class, the students watched candidate speeches for next year’s student body president. While this was going on, Seniors had an award ceremony of their own and watched a very special video of their four years spent at Brashier.
Then, the students made their way from their first period classes to advisories to prepare for the awards ceremony and talk about all the relays they were going to crush the other teams at. “At this time, all classes can make their way to the gym for awards,” announced Mrs. Freeman over the intercom. All the students rushed out of the advisories and hustled to find a seat next to their friends to see if they had been honored with an award from their teachers. As whispers and chatter filled the gymnasium, Mr. Sinclair gave the crowd “the eye” and quickly silenced the students and handed out awards for hard working students. Freshman Kaitlin Edwards got the Most Improved in Algebra I, “I can’t believe I got it, but it was a really easy class.” There were Journalism awards, outstanding improvement and work awards in classes like U.S. History, Chemistry, Geometry, ect. Amanda Payne won a history award from Mr. Martin and other students won various other awards from their teachers.
On lookers watch their friends comepete in games
After all the awards had been given out and all the students had been recognized for their hard work in different classes, everyone made their way back to their advisories quickly because they knew the new yearbooks were waiting for them. The school had never been as quiet as everyone looked through their yearbooks, but the silence was soon broken once a funny picture or goofy portrait popped up. Jessica Kelley, a Freshman, says, “The yearbooks looked really good, my sister is in yearbook and I know they worked really hard on them, they looked good.” Everyone pointed out snap shots of themselves and friends and cracked up not knowing how the yearbook staff had caught the moment. Mrs. Freeman came over the intercom again, releasing the students class by class to go to the gym, get lunch and go outside to have some fun and see their friends.
students eat lunch and sign yearbooks with friends
Everyone chilled out under the huge white tents and ate burgers and pulled out sharpies to get their friends to sign yearbooks, t-shirts, and other things to write cute notes and forget me nots on. “Time for the first event to start!” yelled Coach Bibb and a stampede of students ran out to a huge field to begin the relays. Some laid out on the hill laughing and hanging out, watching their friends and teams compete for the win. At one o’clock an announcement told the students to make their way to the gym for indoor relays. Stacking apples, booty shaking ping pong balls out of tissue boxes, stacking huge pyramids out of cups, and a tie breaking shoot off were just a few of the events the students participated in.
Once the clock hit one thirty, and the bell rang, students made their way to locate their belongings and hurry out to the parking lot to wait to get home. But an unexpected blast of water guns and balloons turned into another excuse for the students to have fun. “Yeah, we launched a surprise attack!” says Hannah Kelley. The battle raged until a cease fire, well cease water ended the war. The parking lot cleared and many students went home and got ready for the barbeque later that night. “Field day was so much fun; I can’t wait till next year, our team totally dominated,” said Sophomore Vanessa Steadham. “I didn’t go home at all, I was at the school until 5:30 because I helped set up for the barbeque, I was so tired,” laughed Sophomore LaTosha Hackle.
Brashier students walk the track at Relay for Life
At five thirty, the once sweaty, messy, dirty looking students showed up to the under the tent event looking like cleaned up perfect tens. Girls in adorable bright sundresses and shirts, and boys in crisp polos and button down shirts arrived to enjoy the huge dinner. “The food was delicious and it was great to have everyone together, it was like a huge family dinner,” said Senior Hannah Kelley. The dinner was great and everyone was stuffed with Barbeque sandwiches and sweet tea. After many touching speeches from students and staff, a majority of students made plans to go to Relay for Life.
“I’ve participated in Relay for Life for years, it’s a great experience,” says Junior Aaron Harris. Bright lights and loud music filled J.L. Mann’s track. Hundreds of people participated in a great cause. Brashier’s team, led by Bill Smith, Brashier’s Biology Teacher, had a great group come out and support the cause. “I loved it, I got to hang out with my friends and participate in a good cause, it was a win-win situation!” says Junior Brittany Douglas. “It was so much fun, but I couldn’t stay the whole night because I was exhausted. But it is such a wonderful cause; it’s not my first time participating in Relay for Life.” The whole day was wonderful, a little busy but the teachers and students pulled it off. Friday the 14th, a day Brashier will not soon forget.
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