Classes, students, prepare for Rally Week

By Nathan Yan
Friday, December 02, 2005 11:31 PM



The Class of 2006's self-proclaimed "Longest Poster Ever Ever"



Seniors Brian Cuadra and Alvina Chu set up posters in the hallways Friday afterschool


Photos by Nathan Yan
Bolted down to their seats in class, watching the agonizingly slow rotation as the second-hand leisurely danced around the clock on the wall, deliberately protracting that single second into the indefnite. The 9... the 10... the 11... the 12... just 6π more radians to go. And all this time, she was supposed to be furiously jotting down notes about some inane trigonometric identity that she was positive had no significance in the task at hand.

It was a scene which undoubtedly played itself out in the minds of dozens of students sitting in their 6° classes all across Westmoor today. As the 2:45 bell rang, seniors, juniors, sophomores, and even freshmen burst forth from their classes and rushed to gather tape and posters in a war of wall-claiming and hallway territory-marking.

Members of Westmoor's class clubs marked the official beginning of Rally Week festivities today, with the time-honored tradition of the taping of the wall posters that takes place on the preceding afterschool Friday of every school Rally.

Each of the class clubs, from the Class of 2006 seniors to the Class of 2009 freshmen, stayed afterschool on workdays throughout the week to design, create, and paint posters, which typically assert the superiority of the designers' class, the relative inferiority of the other classes, or both simultaneously. Most of the posters, however, follow a common theme created by each of the classes, all of which fall under an even broader theme for this week's rally: "Do you believe in magic?"

Their poster work came to a columination afterschool today, as members from all the class clubs frantically ran about the hallways taping up posters and trying to nab the prime spots before the other classes got to them. Posters and decorations were set up today in order to have the school fully ready and decorated when students arrive back at school on Monday morning.

Preceding the culmination of the Rally itself, each of the days following up to the event will be comprised of "motif days", in which all students are highly encouraged to participate by following along with the day's theme, often by wearing an appropriate article of clothing. The motifs for this Rally's Spirit Week are as follows:

Monday, December 5th: Star Day
Tuesday, December 6th: Disney Day
Wednesday, December 7th: Snow Day
Thursday, December 8th: Masquerade Day

Friday, December 9th, is as always, reserved for "Class Color Day", in which students show their class pride by dressing in their grade level's corresponding color: grey for freshmen, yellow for sophomores, green for juniors, and white for seniors.

Rally week will then culminate with the Rally itself, which is scheduled to be held in the afterschool in the main gym (see school map) from approxamitely 3-4pm. A number of very promising acts have been practicing for weeks to perform at the rally, and auditions were held on Friday to choose the acts which will perform.

After the Rally, of course, is scheduled the long-awaited Winter Ball formal event, to be held off-campus at the GiftCenter in San Francisco, at 8pm.

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1 Comments

I've added an additonal pictures, of the Seniors' "Longest Poster Ever Ever". Unfortunately, I don't have too many other pictures from rally week or the rally itself, but if any of you have pictures that you'd like to share, I'd be happy to include them. Send in any pictures to westmoorgoldenram@yahoo.com (feel free to zip them if you have multiple), or post up a link to images at a flickr or imageshack.

  -Blogger Nathan Yan, posted at 11:32 PM, December 19, 2005  

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