Pep Rally

So yesterday we had our first "official" pep rally at school. Mind you we had a pep rally like 3 weeks ago, but this was the first real one. It was supposed to start a 1:30pm. We were still going to have all our regular Friday classes however they were to be shortened to 45 minutes each. Well after lunch as 5th period was starting a kid brought around a bulletin stating that 6th period would be canceled and the pep rally would start right after 5th period. WELL.... 5 minutes later the vice principal motioned for everyone to start making their way to the gymnasium right away. BUT I had scheduled a short vocab quiz for the day because I knew the periods would be short. That's the last time I'll do that. SO, I forced my 5th period class to stay and finish their quizzes before I let them go to the pep rally. In the end, the pep rally ended up being 3 HOURS LONG!! 3 HOURS!! Are you kidding me?!?



Since kids had been missing my class all week in preparation for this event, I had to see what it was all about. I mean, it was just a pep rally, right? NOPE. It was a super duper over the top pep rally madness! As you can see below, there was banners, costumes and makeup, cheers, skits and so much more. These kids and staff get so into this event. It was quite the production.

My students, the Junior class, celebrating after being declared the overall winner of the pep rally.



Another truly American Samoan experience.