Homecoming, good or bad?

Kennedy High School Homecoming. Known for the good DJ and the best times. Well 2012 was a different story. Everyone arrives as normal, takes the same boring pictures with the same boring background. You go to coat check and turn in your things and are ready to dance! I get out on to the dance floor find some friends and start going hard! Now this year we did have some rule changes and what were these rules again? Oh yeah, no hands on the floor and clothes stay on. Okay, everyone should be able to follow that rule. About 30 minutes into dancing the music stops… And then we hear Mr. Johnson’s voice on the sound system. “No bumping and grinding, everyone needs to face their partner.” Say what now! That was not a rule!

Of course all the kids were booing and outraged so what did we all do? Well we grinded facing each other, they said we had to face our partner. Now let’s logically think this through, dancing not facing is your date is okay but we can be body on body facing forwards? This is more like having sex than the other way! Many kids continued to grind facing the supposed wrong way (I included) and began to be kicked out. We were all outraged with the idea that we were following the set rules and now are being kicked out for a stupid reason! My group and I went and got our stuff and were ready to leave when a friend came up and said Dr.W said it was okay to grind, it was not a set rule.

Imagine how many parents would have been outraged if we would have left after they spend money on the dress, hair, tan, makeup, nails, dinner, and pictures to have us leave an hour into the dance! As soon as the news came that we could grind I put my stuff back and was out on the floor. I was going to dance no matter what. We eventually found a group of show choir kids we like to hang out with and we all had a great time! Sweating so hard and fist pumping like crazy! Or taking turns dancing in the middle of the circle. Sometimes it is good to break the rules and have a fun time. As I would say, You only live life once.