Small school classic dance

Arithzi Rivera

 

Friday, December 19, 2008 is a date no one from Geyserville High will ever forget. The Small School Classic annual basketball tournament was a great success with basketball fans and good teams that came from far places just to play, compete, and support our tournament. The best part about having a tournament at your school is having a tournament dance, too. The small school classic dance is a tradition at Geyserville High and a good way to socialize with your friends and meet people from different schools.

The Small School Classic dance happened on December 19^th and went from 8:00 to 12:00 pm. The dance started really weak at the beginning of the night because there were very few people. The reason why some of the people were missing is because of the game at the same time as the dance, so a lot of people decided to stay in the gym until the game was over and attend the dance later in the night.

The real party started at 9:00 pm with everybody ready to show their best dance moves. The DJ for the night was Tito Diaz with some help from his dad and some new high tech equipment.  DJ Tito played a bunch of great classic songs and some other mixes created by him.  The music was exceptional because of the great variation of genres, from hyphy to electro music, with nice transitions. The music was as great as the chaperones at the dance who also had a good time watching the students dance.

For seniors this Small School Classic tournament and dance was their last. The special thing about the small school classic dance is that the entire senior class will always remember it with happiness and fond memories. Even though the dance started a little bit slow, everybody would agree that it was an awesome dance and they loved it!

Which Are You?

Luke Gevas

Which kid are you? The one who listens when your parents are telling you something important or the one who argues back or says, “Ya, whatever, you don’t know what you’re talking about!” Well, our parents do know what they are talking about because our parents have once done the thing we are doing. They have the years of knowledge and experience that we don’t. Our parents care about us and have our safety at heart. We will find out later in life that our parents have known what they were talking about the entire time, and it will help us to be better parents some day. If we respect our parents, they will respect us. Kids should treat their parents with more respect because our parents have the knowledge and the love they need to guide us. 

Our parents know and understand our problems and situation. They were young once, and, believe it or not, they did almost everything we have done or will ever do. Most of us say that our parents don’t get it and never will, but what most of us don’t realize is that they do. Both our parents have lived almost twice the number of years we have, so they have dealt with all the things we are faced with every day. Our parents do get it; our parents aren’t trying to argue with us, they just want to help us.
                 Contrary to what most teens believe, our parents love us and want the best for us. Our parents don’t want to hurt us or fight about what we should or should not be able to do. Listen to your parents: when, for example, they say they don’t want you to go to a concert, it means they don’t want you around the kind of behavior that is there, not that they are trying to ruin your life. Our parents don’t want us to be around drugs and other bad behavior that goes on in those places. Our parents only have our best interest at heart. Getting in trouble or grounded sucks, but it’s good for us. When our parents discipline us, we learn what is right and wrong, and if we learn that we will have a better future.
                 “Why don’t you just leave me alone?” Well, the reason our parents don’t leave us alone is because they don’t want us to ruin our future. When we are in our late 20’s or early 30’s, we will look back and thank our parents for being strict and, maybe, wish they had been even stricter. We’ll see what our parents did and start following their example. The good part is we will have more knowledge because our parents will have passed all the knowledge they gained, from being a parent, on to us. We’ll remember how our parents handled a situation, and then we will be able to handle it even better. Sometimes the parents are to blame for not raising us properly and don’t tell us when we do something wrong. So we just start doing whatever we want, and then we can get into trouble or hurt. So both the parents and the teens have to do their part. Parents have to discipline and we have to listen and obey. Parents want to see their kids grow up and have a family of their own.
                 Respect goes both ways. We have to respect our parents and then they will respect us. Our parents do love us and want us to live and grow into responsible people. They care about us and will do anything for us. We can learn a lot from the years of experience our parents have. Respecting our parents will make our life easier, and we will be glad we did when we try to raise our own kids. So be that kid that listens to his or her parents when they try to share their experience and knowledge.

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