Alameda High School - Acorn Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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Am DAN AT THE RACES he bell rang, and in unison | heard my classmates push in their chairs and run out of the class- room in a violent rampage. What for, you ask? | didn’t know, but | was soon to find out. | walked out of my fourth period class and exited out of the main hall. There | saw it. Hoards of people sat on the gray cement school circle, waiting anxiously to experience the up and coming event. It was then that | saw the most terrifying, scarifying sight | have ever seen in my life: beefy football players strutted around the circle wearing the cheerleaders’ uniforms. Just when | thought it was all over, the studette cheerleaders ran out wearing the foot- ball players’ attire performing wild gyra- tions while flexing their throbbing mus- cles. “Didn’‘t you just love the part when the guys wore the skirts?’’ questioned Hope Heller as she turned back around to watch the remainder of the crazy antics. | sat there in total confusion when | saw other people coming out, starting to blow peanuts with a straw and shoving their faces into some unidentified white goop. What for, you ask? For class com- petition points, of course. What got into these people? Under usual conditions, these people were nor- mal, just like you and me; but this thing, which they call ‘rally’, moved them to do things not even Pee Wee Herman would be caught doing. | asked Janice Ma exactly what was going on. Instead of answering my ques- tion, she just exclaimed in total rejoice, “| just love it when people show a lot of spirit for our school!’ There was only one thing | didn’t un- derstand about this rally; it seemed like everyone was having a great time, ex- cept me, of course. As | continued watching this most out of the ordinary event and trying to enjoy my lunch, despite of the ear piercing tune of ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy”’, | finally realized that this rally was just not for me. Other people may like to wear strange clothes, or watch people do it, and some people might even like to do those crazy stunts. Now come fo think of it, it might be fun. “| just love it when people show a lot of spirit for our school.’ —Janice Ma EMP SEAS AV SESSA Bae ff Le Ff PRS