Homecoming

15th September, 2011

Homecoming is something that I had heard from American TV. I never actually knew what it meant though. The first game that the school football team plays at home is their homecoming game. Before the first home game of the year, there are a lot of events and my cousins school. They call the week Spirit week". It's a week dedicated to raising school spirit (presumably in preparation for the homecoming game). They have themed days, where you dress up, such as "Twins Day", "Western Day" and "Decades Day". On homecoming day, final year students wear togas to class. This all seems very strange to someone who had to wear a school uniform throughout his schooling.

The night before the game, there is a bonfire (see above). It is very controlled with firefighters present at all times. I went along as I was curious and I heard that Caraiosa was performing with the cheerleaders. The weather was terrible so they didn't perform. Before the bonfire, I watched a bit of a soccer game that the school was involved in. Apparently they have a good soccer team because most of the players are Brazilian, Spanish or Italian. The other team consisted of mostly Mexicans. I thought that it must be very confusing for them because there were three different coloured markings on the field - red, yellow and white. One was for football, one for soccer and one for something else (maybe lacrosse). The soccer players all had a mohawke hairstyle. Maybe this was to raise team spirit as well. Besides the football/soccer pitch, they had a nice training pitch, a baseball pitch, basketball courts and 8 tennis courts. Compare this to our one crappy gaelic football pitch in school.