The Nest Podcast
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Spirit Days and Exciting Events: Your Ultimate Homecoming Guide
Ready to experience the most thrilling Homecoming Week ever? Brace yourselves as Baylor Pemberton, Mallory Wilkey, Mitchell Obermeyer, and Nolan Naucke walk you through an entire week packed with excitement, spirit, and memorable moments. We kick off with interactive games at the younger buildings and move on to transforming our hallways into a Broadway spectacle. From the high-energy bonfire to the themed spirit days like Dress as Your Favorite Musical and Greasers vs. Beachers, every single day is designed to bring our community together in the most fun and engaging ways.
But that's just the beginning! Join us as we paint the town blue on Blue Jay Day with a pep rally, carnival, and the much-anticipated homecoming parade down Blue Jay Way. Don't miss the big game against Perryville where we'll crown our king and queen before wrapping up the week with a spectacular dance on Saturday night. Grab your calendar and mark these dates because you won't want to miss a single moment of this unforgettable Homecoming Week. Buckle up for a week filled with laughter, camaraderie, and pure school spirit!
Hello R7 community. We're back at the Nest and we're here to tell you about our homecoming week next week. I'm Baylor Pemberson. I'm your vice president of STUCO. I'm Mallory Wilkie, I'm your president of.
Speaker 2:STUCO.
Speaker 3:I'm Mitchell Obermeyer. I'm part of STUCO and leadership. My name is Noel Nockian. I'm also part of STUCO and leadership.
Speaker 1:So already we're nine days away and we're going to kick off our homecoming festivities tomorrow. So we're going to be going down to the younger buildings, platen danby, telegraph and we're going to be giving them interactive games to get them all excited for homecoming, because everybody deserves the fun here and their homecoming week. Spirit days are going to look a little bit different, so keep that in mind. That'll start at about 12 45. We're going to head to telegraph and get those started, so that already leads us into 1245. We're going to head to Telegraph and get those started, so that already leads us into Sunday, which we're going to be decorating our hallways for our Broadway theme. Leadership will be there at 8 am. Stucco members should be there by 9 am. We're going to be working hard to put all of our hallways together and the community is welcome to stop by and look at our hallways. That night we'll be having our annual bonfire with yard games, gaga ball, tug of war, etc. And it'll be so much fun to kick off this homecoming week.
Speaker 2:But please remember this is a high schooler only event. And then that leads us into our spirit week Monday's class color day, which freshmen are purple, sophomores are orange, juniors are pink and seniors are red. And then Tuesday that will be Broadway New York versus Broadway Tennessee, and that will be Fancy Country versus City Attire Yep.
Speaker 3:And Wednesday is Dress as your Favorite Musical. Some examples are Shrek.
Speaker 2:Mamma Mia, greatest Showman.
Speaker 3:Lion King.
Speaker 2:Grease.
Speaker 3:And Thursday is Greasers versus Beach beachers, so greasers will be like slick back hair and a leather jacket, beachers will be swim trunks, hawaiian shirts, glasses and floaties friday is our blue jay day, so everybody's going to be wearing all blue across the whole community because it is the best day, as they say.
Speaker 1:So we're going to be starting off that morning bright and early at 8 15 for our pep rally. The whole high school is going to be coming to the pep rally and we're going to have our fall sports, lots of representation and it's. It's just going to be a great morning.
Speaker 2:Then from there we'll oh, and our man's team baylor yes, oh yeah can we get a sneak peek of that?
Speaker 3:yes, yes, All right Three two, one go.
Speaker 1:Wow See, that is something you just don't want to miss, you know.
Speaker 2:You don't.
Speaker 1:We can't wait to broadcast that even tomorrow morning at our younger building. So from our pep rally we're going to be going to our carnival. Our carnival is a fan favorite. We're going to have Kona, ice, yard games, inflatables, everything. From there we're going to go to our parade, which the whole community can come and watch down Blue Jay Way. That would be about at 1.30.
Speaker 3:And then that leads us into the game at 7 at home against Perryville. Coronation starts at 6 30 and we will announce the king and queen as well. And then Saturday 7 pm, is the dance. Everyone should be there, need to be there 7 to 9. And then you also have to be at school the day prior, Friday, to be able to attend the dance.
Speaker 1:Yes, that dance will end at 9 pm and leadership students are expected to stay and help clean up that dance. So hopefully this gets you pumped up, because I know we sure are pumped up for homecoming week this coming up week. So thanks for talking to us at the Nest J-O get up.