Hoco Week 2024

 Homecoming Week is one of the most anticipated weeks within the school year. It is filled with a plethora of joyous events that brings everyone together. This years homecoming week was no exception.

Tuesday October 15, 2024: Battle of the Colors (Purple)

To kick off homecoming week, the first dress up day and probably the most basic was color wars. The color for Juniors is purple. Finding purple clothing was actually really hard. As someone who does not really like wearing flashy colors this one was a bit challenging for me. I personally prefer to wear very neutral colors such as brown, black, white, gray. Nothing that really stands out. And purple is just that, a very vibrant color that sticks out. As someone who is a avid hater of purple this dress up day pained me the most. But nonetheless, I showed out. I managed to find a purple shirt and just wore a pair of leggings because the purple was already too much for me. But at the same time I did not want to be too basic since this is a year that I want to show more school spirit now being an upperclassman. So, in addition I did bring purple markers with me to school. At the time I did not know what exactly I was going to do with the purple markers but just brought them with me in case I could do something. I was not really expecting to really use them but they did get put to use. In sixth period in AP Seminar it was kind of boring, we had nothing to do and had a sub. So what better way to spend the time by having your two friends have a drawing competition on your arms. Though it was quite entertaining in the moment seeing them compete over who would have the best arm it was quite a pain to take off leaving me stained purple for the next day even after taking a shower as well as the sink.

later that night it was also Krazy Kickball. In this it was quite entertaining to watch. I did not end up playing because during the summer I had sustained an injury where I did end up breaking three of my toes. It was a really stupid injury because I ran into a wall chasing my uncle and rammed my foot into the wall causing three of my toes to bend backwards. Due to this injury which occurred in June the week after school ended I have not been able to really partake in any activities involving me kicking things due to the pressure that it will cause my toes to apply through me shoes. We are not trying to have another injury that to the week of homecoming because that would just be no Bueno especially with the luck I have being one of the most clumsiest individuals anyone will ever really meet. But Kickball overall, was really fun to watch other than seeing the seniors win which had me rage quit and leave right after seeing that there was no way we were ever going to come back from that.

Wednesday October 16, 2024: Incoming Tornado (Rhyme Without Reason)

Rhyme without reason is the one that I was probably the dress up day that I was looking the least forward to. The reason for this being is that me and my best friend Issie could not possibly come up with something to dress up as. Everything was either too last minute in the terms for finding the accessories for that outfit or everything was too basic for her. It was more especially bad knowing that we used up a good one last year. For rhyme without reason last year we did fraternity and maternity. She was the one dressed up as if she was in a frat because she had all the stuff she could need since her brother is in a frat at USF. And I was the maternity aspect of the dress up because I had just come back from DECA states and had a baby prop which I had borrowed from Covard and was looking for the perfect opportunity to return it back to her. But for the hoco dress up day we ended up doing something really basic and last minute. She was a cheerleader since she had a cheer costume and I was the reader which to be honest did not take much to dress up as since all I really did was wear my glasses to school for once which is a really rare thing for me. I wish I had a picture of us together but us being us we forgot to take pictures of us together until we realized later that say when we got home after her mother called me up yelling at me for forgetting. But throughout the school day it was quite the adventure seeing people dressed up and trying to figure out what they were and who they could possibly by rhyming with. 

Thursday October, 17, 2024: Anything But A Backpack

Out of all the days I think that I was the most excited about Thursday. There are many reasons for this but the main one was probably because it was the most exciting to see what everyone would come up with and bring to school for anything but a backpack day. But for me I think that it was also the most disappointing because I was not able to participate. My original plan was to participate and everyone knows, but then something happened last minute. I was planning on bringing this little mini shopping cart I have from one of my American Girl Dolls from when I was little. Then when I went to go and get it the most unfortunate thing came to be. Turns out that my grandma had given that away to my little bratty five year old cousin Laiba all because she found it cute. All I could think that the time was WTF because I wanted to use that. So, I just brought myself and my basic Jansport backpack because i felt pity for myself for the unfortunate situation. I was thinking about brining a pillow case but my mommy went into witch mode and said no because she claims that is absolutely weird and did not want me to look like a fool. I don't know why she's talking when there were people that brought a literal blue kayak or canoe or whatever its called, a baby stroller, and even tires.

Later that day it also happened to be Krazy Feats. I went but once again could not really participate because I know myself and I know that I am to clumsy and just knew that in some way shape or form I would do something and end up breaking or hurting myself really badly because that in something that I happen to be really good at. You could call it my secret hidden talent because at this point that is exactly what it is. But it was really entertaining to watch all the games. Then I saw someone that made me wanna go bonkers and start jumping off the walls, and that happened to unfortunately be my mans best friend Marcus which for some reason had me spiral but that would not be the only time that week i would spiral because of the two of them. The spiraling was later made up for when it was the plank hold challenge thing and I saw him struggling for the seniors and then go splat on the floor. Made me laugh and got a good picture of that because it was hilarious. As the night went on though I could feel his uncanny gaze on me and he would get close to me as if he was trynna make his presence known to me. Like bro I can sense you move away avert your gaze. SMH. It was rigged though. Cause why did the seniors win they rigged it there was no way they should have gotten half the points they got.  Cannot convince me otherwise.

Friday October 18, 2024: No Place Like Hoco (Cooper Colors)

Friday was probably the best day out of the entire week and the day that I had the most fun but also the most annoying and traumatizing day. The dress up day for Friday was was cooper colors. Definitely the esasiest day to dress up for as well because all it was, was red, black, and white. And it was colors that I wear almost every day top minus the red because I do not have any red because as stated previously I only ever really wear neutral colors and red is anything but really neutral. So haha catching me in red because it is never going to happen. 

 so the OOTD (outfit of the day) happened to be a really basic white tank with black zip up with black baggy jeans with just my black Adidas because that is who I happen to be a really basic person. the only red was the red rubber band to hold my two mini braids in place because I could not really be that basic on the last dress up day. School was really boring nothing to really see.

The  pep rally that I could not help in because I was forced to do a math test the day before homecoming and no way in heck were u going to catch me makeup a math test because I find my study hall time to be really valuable with Mrs.Covard. The pep rally was really basic other than the teacher dances and Mr. Sodegrens cartwheel because that was really iconic and entertaining to see.

But this is where things took a turn for what was supposed to be a wonderful Friday evening. So basically it was supposed to be five of us going to my friends house after school ends cause we were all supposed to go to the hoco game together. So, it was supposed to be me, my best friend Issie, Ayden, my boy bsf Alexx who is like a brother to me, and finally Nicole who Alexx is or was trynna rizz up but it did not go so well. After school we were all supposed to walk to the cold stone plaza so that te boys could get ice cream because that is what they were craving and then from there Alexx was supposed to pick up up or his parents and we go to his house, walk around the block, go to Walmart to get some stuff, stop by CVS to look around, walk back to Aelxx's house, get ready, and go to the game, leave grab a bite to eat, go back to his house, and go home. Half of those things did not end up happening. Nicole was not able to walk with us after school but would instead have to meet us at the game. And Alexx he decided to not come to school because he did not want to watch the pep rally. So from there it was just me, Ayden and Issie to walk to coldstone which did happen and Alexx was supposed to pick up up at 3:30. Bro never showed up. His gecko died. He was having a funeral for his gecko that just happened to die at such a convenient time. So that left the three of us stranded at cold stone and even the middle schoolers that had come at the time had all already left and it was just us. Me and Issie were pissed and Ayden he was just there at that point. 

Luckily Issie's mom was able to come in clutch and she was able to pick us up from the plaza. So we ended up going to her house and her parents ordered us pizza. And Alexx he just ended up meeting us at her house because the three of them all live in the same neighborhood. 

So after we ate the pizza we all had to get ready. Me and Issie had to redo our hair and makeup and we had to get the boys and ourselves painted up because we cannot let them go basic. 

I had to make sure maximum damage was done so that they could look really festive and show a lot of school spirit. From there around 6:30 we had al left for the game and were forced to be crammed into the backseat of Issie's dads truck. From there we went to the game and ngl it  was really boring because we were loosing and we all could not stop rage screaming. And then I started screaming more when I saw Jose walking up the stands with Marcus after he said that he was not going to go because he did not want to see us loose. In turn that had me angry texting him at the game asking what he was going there after saying he was not going to come to the game and him saying he only came because he was made by his friends. From there it was already getting late we did not really watch the game and ended up leaving around nine the game and walking to the car pool area because Nicole's parents had to pick her up. So after Nicole got picked up we all walked to the Wendy's plaza which took a good thirty minutes but we did not go to Wendy's because they all wanted ice cream so we went to DQ instead. We all got a slushie and met up with more friends and then we decided that we did want food from Wendy's. the boys like to mess with me and tell me that Jose is near and they told me jokingly that Jose was in Wendy's but when i looked he was actually there and I screamed really loudly.Alexx then went inside and as we followed him inside we got locked out and I started banging on the door and he was filling up his drink just looking at me laughing. From there we were all tired and Alexx's mom picked us up and he introduced me to her because they all wanted me to meet her and she wanted to meet me. It went really good and she just ended up dropping me home by that time it was already midnight and we were all exhausted.

Hoco!

Short and simple I did not go I had another party that day. But I did end up getting mad because Jose texted saying that he was coming to pick me up after I told him I was not coming because I had somewhere else to be which I guess made him mad because he really wanted to pick me up. I ended up being more mad when I saw what he wore to homecoming and that too his last homecoming. Bro pulled up in black baggy jeans, chains and his lego keychains which he always has on so not mad about that, he had on his old beat up converse when he as a pair of new ones, and then his ugly belt, and ugly wrinkly white shirt when bro usually has good style. Made me so angry ruined my whole day.  

I'm not gonna worry about it though cause I still had a great time at the after party and the whole week in general. So overall, 8/10 homecoming week 2024.