Prom/AA meet

This week our high school had an AA meet/Prom (Athletics/academics). It was also combined with the MS AA meet. It was a lot of fun. We left on Monday and came back Friday (today); the middle school left Thursday morning. We went up to Newhalen. This year’s AA meet was focused on leadership. We had a lot of people talk to us about leadership. We had workshops that we did and classes. We also had a talent show and NYO events (Native youth Olympics). We also did things called ice breakers in the mornings sometimes. There was also a board, they called it a beamer board that you put an envelope with your name on it and people could leave messages for you.

Some of the workshops/classes were: Public Speaking, Archery, Air Rifles, a Service Project, Outdoor survival, and a teamwork one (there isn’t really a good name for it but it made us work in teams). We made compost bins out of pallets for the people for Newhalen.

We had classes that we got to choose two of what we wanted to do and one was already chosen for us. We could have chose from: Martial Arts, Dance, Beading, Ice Fishing, and taking the DMV written test. Everyone had to do a How to Study class.

We were split up into groups. Our groups also played tug-of-war. My group (H) won the championship.

Thursday night was prom; it ran from 6 PM to 12 AM. It was really fun this year; we got just about everyone dancing. They also bought flowers for people to buy and some sparkling cider to drink. One of the teachers running the music selection decided that at one of the slow songs, we would go out there and dance by ourselves until someone came up to us. And then we spend about an hour cleaning.

This morning we had an awards ceremony. There were awards for NYO, the talent show, speeches, sportsmanship, archery, and air rifles. We are also sending some students to the state NYO competition.

I plan on posting LOTS of pictures once I get them from my teacher. To tell you the truth, I am probably forgetting something but if I think of anything else, I will probably post some little notes.