Highland High School's First Soccer Club

Our school does not have a boys' or girls' soccer team. My friend, Bob, and I thought it would be cool to start a soccer club. So, every Friday after school, we are holding pick-up games for any students that want to play. Today was our very first day. We had about about eighteen students and three teachers come out. We had planned on just playing for an hour but we ended up playing from 3:45 to 6:00. It was awesome. It was cool to see kids that don't normally get involved come out and play. Everyone had good sportsmanship and we just had a great time. One kid told me this was the first time he had ever played soccer. This is the side of teaching that I love.

Highland Homecoming...GO HUSKIES

This week was homecoming at Highland High School! Since I am one of the Junior Class sponsors I kept plenty busy this week. At my school each class competes throughout the week for the Spirit Stick! Normally, the seniors win, but I felt the winds of change this year (perhaps in the White House too).

So, on Monday there was the Window Painting and Hall Decorating. I was in charge of window painting. Each class is given a window to decorate in downtown Ault. The theme for Homecoming was "Disney Daze". If you're thinking lame so was I. Juniors were given Aladdin as their theme. So, here is our window. The football team we played was Battle Mountain DAWGS which is very close to Highland HUSKIES, but we made the most of it. We got second place on the window and first on the Hallway.

In case you can't tell, the Genie and a Huskie have a DAWG chained to the magic carpet.

Tuesday, we had Hot Stuff volleyball. This is where each grade level has a boys' volleyball team and the school Volleyball players coach them. This year we had a teacher team and .... we WON. We beat the seniors, but of course they accused us of cheating. After Hot Stuff there were a C-team, JV, and Varsity Volleyball games. So, it was a late night.

Wednesday every one took a breather!

Thursday was the most exhausting day. Now, I am not a big fan of floats. I actually have bad memories of floats from high school. My therapist and I are still getting to the root of the problem. I will let you know when I am cured. I was not assigned to float building duty, but the teacher that was in charge had a death in the family so I took over.

At Highland, we are let out of school at 11:30 and each class has till 4 pm to get their float done. So, they are not very fancy. It is amazing: it took us 4 hours to built it and 5 minutes to take it down! We had Aladdin and Jasmine riding the magic carpet through town. We used desks from my classroom as booths in the market. We had fresh fruit, spices, cloth, jewels, and fortune teller booths.

Owen, do you recognize her turban, it is the one I bought in Israel. Her head was too big for the band so we duct taped it to her head.

One of the girls drew this palace and we all pitched in and painted it. I think she did a great job.

For spices we got sand and sprayed it with Halloween hair dye. This was my idea and I thought it was a good one.

At 4:30 we rode in the 25 minute parade and then dismantled our floats. It was a lot of work, but it paid off because we got second place. After the parade there was Powder Puff football. It was the Seniors and Sophomores vs. Juniors and Freshmen. Since I am a Junior Class sponsor and predominately a Freshmen teacher, I cheered for the second team and they won 14-8.

After powder puff there was a bonfire, but by that time I had had enough and decided to go home. I knew if I stayed I would be doing crowd control and I didn't want to.

Friday night was the football game which we won 17-13. This was a big deal because we are 1A and we beat a 3A team. I missed the game though because I had to work in the concession stand, but I had a good time doing that.

And the big news of the night....JUNIORS WON THE SPIRIT STICK! JUNIORS WON THE SPIRIT STICK. DOWN WITH THE SENIORS!