Article: Ghosts in the Snow?

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One of the most beloved holidays is coming around the corner for us to celebrate. It allows many people to just let loose and enjoy the creepy atmosphere with a bit of sweetness. If you instantly thought of Halloween, you’re obviously right. There’s also one more that’s just as appreciated. It may land in the coldest of times, but warmth can be found and even felt with it’s alive and cheerful aura. That happens to be Christmas. But what does SJHS have to do with either of these? Well, on Halloween, a day before or after, everyone can come dressed up. When it’s near Christmas, we throw a big winter or Christmas themed dance. It’s nice, but how exactly do our students feel about it, and what do they think about… a different kind of dance? Now before we dive into the snow or leaf pile of details, let’s listen to what us teens prefer.

First off, Halloween is an amazing holiday. It’s alive with a deathly amount of demonic clowning around and bewitching costumes, which is what a lot of students adore! Between Christmas and Halloween, seven out of nine teens chose “the Devil’s birthday”. What did they say about it? Angela Lopez loves Halloween because you can actually be yourself, your creepy self. Corrin Jensen loves it because you can “dress however you want” and nobody can judge. Frida Gomez loves the fact that you can dress up in something out of the ordinary, while Victor Rivas prefers Halloween because “you can hide yourself”. Whether it’s under a mask or just face paint showing your creepy side, you’re hidden from the boring common side of society. For Chance, he adores this holiday because nobody can stop him from dressing up in a dinosaur onesie. Somebody give this man an award! Here is where the opinions change. Two out of the seven who chose Halloween have completely different reasons to love it. Always remember Jaxen Pugh’s wise words,” I love Halloween because you can scare the crap out of people in many different ways”. Halloween is favored by Jennifer because “there’s no religion” really involved in this holiday. For her at least. The last two out of the nine kids asked were Tracy Segeberg and Ricky Balderama. Tracy just can’t choose one.

“Both, both are freaking awesome!” she said enthusiastically.

“I like Christmas more because you can spend time with family. With Halloween, you can actually come down with something because of all that sugar”. Ricky stated. It’s good to know that he’s cautious about health and that he actually thinks about spending quality time with others.

Next up, we have their opinions on keeping the Christmas dance or replacing it with a Halloween one. Victor just doesn’t care and thinks neither should really occur. Jaxen, was the only one who said we should keep the Christmas dance. The rest is pretty obvious. Everyone else liked the idea of having a Halloween themed dance. Even if Victor didn’t care for the idea of having a dance representing these two holidays, he threw his opinion on the price,“$2, $1.50, $0.99”. Jaxen had a different idea on it. Sort of a deal. He thought of having it cost $10, but with food and a drink provided. Usually, the dance is less if we bring our student ID, but it still seems like a lot, so the majority of students agreed to having it cost $2 or even free with your ID and twice as much without it. There’s still one thing to know what SJHS students have to say about dances, and that happens to be music. Tracy is hoping for better music. To her, it doesn’t matter what genre it is, as long as it’s better than the kind we play, then she’s all for it. Angela, Chance, Victor, and Jaxen all would like some form of rock or alternative music. Corrin thinks all kinds should be played, Jennifer crosses her fingers and wishes nobody will request “Let it Go” or cheesy music in general. Ricky doesn’t care, but he’d like to have “Thriller” played.

Third of all, if some people want to keep the winter dance while others want Halloween, Tim Burton’s classic claymation movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas, bursts in through one of those magic doors to save arguments from arising. When this idea was suggested, everyone immediately supported it. They’ve all seen the movie and loved it, so when a dance with this theme was brought up, they all had “a skeleton grin”(Jack Skellington). Although it was confusing to Jennifer, her reasons made sense. “I just think it’d be kinda confusing if you have people in costumes when others are dressed formally”,She explained. But in the end, she suggested the attire should be costumes because “costumes are easier because you have others who will stress over what to wear in order to look nice, some even come like they’re going to prom.” Tracy thinks you should wear whatever along with Angela, Chance, and Corrin.

To wrap things up and put it in a coffin, a Nightmare Before Christmas dance would be nice to have rather than just a winter dance. Overall, do you think this is a good change to school events? Instead of green elf tuxedos and crimson skirts with a fur trim, we can have ghosts in the snow by our side.

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Article by Raquel Marquez - SJHS Student Staff Writer