Homecoming spirit

I guess some of you are not familiar with homecoming, since we don’t have that in Finland, I will share my information with you. The first and the most important thing to know is that homecoming is a lot of fun! If you have a chance to go, promise me you won’t miss that, okay? I was wondering where the name is coming from, so I found out that the today’s homecoming is a little different than it used to be. Back in the old days, it was a tradition of welcoming back the students who already gratuated from school. Everyone would have a reunion and they would all come back home for the weekend. So that’s where the name is coming from. Nowadays homecoming is just a celebration and a time to pump up the school spirit. Either way, homecoming is awesome and it should be in Finland too!

Homecoming is always celebrated in the autumn. It’s like prom, but a smaller version of that. During the week we had spirit days, so we all dressed up to school. We had a bonfire on monday to get everyone excited about the dance which was on saturday. The dance was the big deal. On friday we also had pep-rally and a homecoming parade on the main street and then at night the traditional homecoming football game. Our highschool did pretty well with all of that and we had a good teamspirit.

The spirit days:

Monday - America day

Tuesday - Western day

Wednesday - Pajama & toga day

Thursday - Throwback 

Friday - School spirit

Monday:

 

Tuesday:  

Wednesday:  

 Middle school had an injury day! Mike did casts for the kids
   

Thursday:  

Friday:  

The bonfire on Monday: 

There was a DJ and everyone was dancing!  

Experiencing America all the way! Toilet papering houses (just like in the movies, but more fun!)  

The parade:   

The football players
 

Homecoming game on friday:
Student section Our dance on the halftime Team photo and then there is Mike  

I wanted to make a separate post from my princess day so the pictures from the homecoming dance from saturday are in the next post!