12/9/2010
by Becca Warfel
Once a year at Neoga High School, students and teachers get to dress up in unusual costumes without looking weird. Neoga recently held their annual Homecoming Week, a week of dress up days and activities leading up to homecoming. Classes compete against each other and the teachers in contests such as the singing bee and tug of war and try to have the most students in costume. At the end of the week, the class with the most points from competing in these varied activities wins bragging rights.
This year the festivities started out with a board walk competition on Monday. For the board walk, students lined up on two planks and had to race across the gym, walking in unison with the planks attached to their feet. Students participated in color day for their dress up theme, dressing up in a color picked by their class. On Tuesday students competed in an obstacle course and dressed up for twin day. Students dressed up to match each other to be counted as “twins”. Wednesday was the singing bee, and the dress up theme was crazy day. For the singing bee, students held a “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” style contest. Participants were given a part of a song and had to sing with it. When the music stopped, they had to recite the next line without music. Students were instructed to dress crazily, and wore everything from funny hats to mismatched neon stockings and capes. On Thursday, the activity was sundae creation and the dress up theme was clique day. For the activity students competed in a relay race to build a sundae. Each student had to stand on a chair and held a different ingredient that they dropped into a cup held by a student on the floor. For clique day, classes were assigned a clique, like hippies or jocks, and had to dress like a member of that clique. On the last day of homecoming week, the students competed in the tug of war and dressed up for red and white day, all of them wearing Neoga themed apparel.
The winning class was announced on Friday after the tug of war. In fourth place was the freshman class. Coming in second was the sophomore class. Second place was seniors, and first place was taken by the juniors. Congratulations, juniors!
