Eagle-lympics: The Preparation

One of the many cool things about working for a residential high school is developing a hall community among pre-college age girls. Whereas college freshmen eventually figure out how to act like college students, high school students don't do that until...well, until they go to college. Like last year, my hall has separated itself as the loud, awkward, and ridiculous floor. It all started when we made our theme "Obscure Presidents," which a loyal reader might recall from last spring's brainstorming session. In line with developing a community, my students have really come together in support of our nation's obscure presidents.

Wishing to make our theme even more amazing, we loaded up a few presidential portraits on blockposters.com and printed them out in black and white on brightly colored paper. The finished product? These:

One of my students who helped decorate the hall explained, "He's saying 'Ball so hard' because he's Harding!!" 

"Homie, on Thursdays your room should probably be clean." -Millard Fillmore

Other presidential reminders include, "Be home by curfew!" ("Because I really think I'm more likely to do it if a president is telling me when I have to be home!" said the same student), "Play nice," "RACK CITY (follow dress code)," and "No liquids in the trash!" Then there's Grover Cleveland on the hall door saying, "SWAG ON!" The best part of all of this is my students LOVE IT. They are highly supportive of integrating our theme into as many things as possible, including...

Eagle-lympics.

Formerly known as Eagle Antics and brought back in 2011 after a brief hiatus, Eagle-lympics is an inter-hall competition that highlights all of the things that make being a gifted, talented, and a teenager both wonderful and terrible. Today is the long-awaited Eagle-lympics, and the entire building has been buzzing with halls doing last-minute preparation (mine included.) Although we probably could have survived with our amazing T-shirts alone (photos to come in the evening...), my hall wanted to take it to the next level with hand-painted posters. I am so excited to reveal our hall posters, because they are a-mazing.

Eagle-lympics is no "clean old-fashioned hate" rivalry, but I am looking forward to tonight's events. Hopefully nobody's head will be ripped off.