Homecoming 2017
What is Homecoming exactly?
Homecoming is about American football. So there is the answer to the question, "Do you have homecoming in The Netherlands?" Multiple people have asked me and I get why, because it is such a big thing in The USA.
I think I can say the homecoming is a little bit like prom, because we also have a dance and a queen. We do not have a homecoming king at PHS, no we have our Mister Football. Mr. Football is a football player (obviously) and he is voted on by the football team and probably the best football player or the most popular one. The homecoming queen is voted on by the whole school.
So homecoming is about the last home football game traditionally. For Princeville High School our homecoming is not the last home game, that is because the last football game is Senior Night. For the game lots of former students come back. That is why it is called homecoming, because former students come back home.
To get into the school spirit for the Homecoming game, there is a whole week filled with fun things and because of those things school spirit arises.
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Our homecoming week planning was super full but so much fun:
Monday, September 18th:
Disney day
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So every day there is a theme, and the purpose is that people dress up in that theme. Our first day of homecoming week was Disney Day. The purpose of that day was that everyone would dress up as a Disney-character. People put so much effort in it I was so amazed. It was so cool! It was more weird if you were not dressed up, than if you were. I was dressed up as Cinderella and to be honest I had the worst costume ever, but I did walk around with one shoe all day (except when we had to go to the green house, I was not going to do that with one shoe). That really made my costume. It was funny though.
I think that the best costume that I saw was a guy who dressed up as Russell from UP. The joke about it is that guy is seriously a member of the boy scouts. He really looked like Russell, only he is a little bit bigger.
Alyssa, my sister, was dressed up as Boo from Monsters Inc. She looked so cute, but I think that Boo was one of the most popular costumes.
Griffin was not dressed up at all, but Sonja still wanted a picture of him.
Like I said my costume was not super pretty, but it was creative.
Volleyball game Galva
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The Volleyball game at Galva was not necessarily a part of homecoming week because it was not a home game but still. Galva is just like us a little town and I think that you would spend 40 minutes driving from Princeville to Galva, which is not that bad for America. For the Netherlands that would be extremely far.
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We are always super early at the place where we have to play because the Freshmen team & the JV team have to play before we do. Mostly the Varsity team is just sitting on the bleachers working on some homework and watching the game a little bit. While I was watching the Freshmen team I thought I saw someone I knew in Galva's team, someone I knew from EF,but because I am mostly not so good at recognizing people I thought I was wrong and that it was not that girl. Well I was. One of my Dutch friends attends Galva and I found out this week. I love talking to her in Dutch, because I sort of miss doing that sometimes. We took some pictures and I also talked to her family which was a lot of fun too.
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Oh by the way the Varsity team won the volleyball game in 2 sets. We won the first sets pretty easy I have to say. The second set, ohhh that got close at the end. I think we ended up winning 25-27, so that is good, but Galva made sure to make the game exciting.
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This is me and my Dutch friend. I really love to see all the Dutchies again.