• Sep. 12, 2008
football, baby!
Fact: most of my friends go to the local public school
Fact: I live in the South.
Fact: Southerners live for football season.
how does this connect?
well,
In the south, or at least the part where I live, there is no sport more loved than football. Except, maybe hunting, but I'm not counting that right now, because it would defeat the purpose of this post.
People around here all pick their favorite college and high school team, and track the scores religiously. And now, football season is in full swing, bringing with it those ever-familiar sights, sounds, smells, and emotions. You know them, right?
the smell of popcorn and funnel cakes, the slightly off-tune high school marching band made of kids you grew up with, go to church with. (in small town, white bread americana, you can't go a block without seeing one of these kids.)
yelling and cowbells from overcompetitive parents, blinding floodlights, the scoreboard,
some people dressed up as a mascot for whatever school you've picked to support...
my school of choice is the one about a mile away from me, where the kids who live very close to me (think next door and across the street)
happen to attend, and, oh, march in the band, play football...
and of course, with my best friend on the yearbook staff, I can't miss an opportunity to show up and irritate her. (jk. or am I?)
Some of my homeschool friends like to show up at the games too, and it's really fun to hang out with them and watch people run about wildly, full of that thing called "school spirit",
and the drums start playing and you're hyper, and third quarter rolls around
and you've had so much cola that even you're hoping one of the teams will win! (which, obviously?)
And random people you don't know ask you what homeschooling is like,
and say they wish they could be like you, because that seems so much more fun!
And, well, duh...right?
So I'm totally ready for tonight's game.
Because, after all- funnel cake?
the south's second religion?
homeschool and public school friends?
FUNNEL CAKE?
the offbeat marching band that the band director mistook me for part of when I stopped by practice to talk to my friend about buying some of their fundraiser junk?
FUNNEL CAKE?
LET"S GET FIRED UP-
even if I don't go to school there,
I wouldn't miss it for the world.
Comments
• Sep. 12, 2008
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Posted by Twizzlergirl
Hey!
LOL
nice entry!
how have u been?
i just wrote a new entry 2!
<3Faith<3
