<p>Hey, the wait is the wait and worrying won't change the wait. You are seniors and I am quite sure that your calendars are full. (Hey this may turn into a girlie topic but we like when guys are active participants because we will have the pictures forever)</p>
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[li]Are the plans in place for grauation parties? Big bash or small setting? </p>[/li]
<p>[li]Where are you going for your senior trip? last year NYC board of ed had a moritorium that students could not fly, leave the country or be near water. Eventually the district squashed school sponsored senior trips and the parents ended up sponsoring the trip.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Are you on committees? </p>[/li]
<p>[li]Are you planning prom? </p>[/li]
<p>[li]Where's it gonna be? Club or hotel?</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Have you ordered your dress? </p>[/li]
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<p>Go now!! D paid a $100 rush charge last year because I told her she needed to get on her game. Could you believe she did not listen to me :eek:? They did not have her shoes in stock so we had to pay for a rush shipment.</p>
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[li] What senior traditions are you looking forward to?[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>senior trip is most probably going to be to the Shore, it usually is and we can't afford much else</p>
<p>prom is at this gorgeous place on the Hudson in Jersey City, I forgot what it's called though</p>
<p>i really didn't like prom at all last year, and didn't even buy a new dress for it, but this year I'm going with a great guy who's a good friend, and managed to find a perfect dress for - ! - 93 dollars! after i spent an hour convincing my mom to give a 200 dollar budget, i didn't even spend over a hundred lol</p>
<p>traditions? the only tradition i can think of is the keg race hahaha. oh, there's one in Concert Choir - on the night of the spring concert, after we've sung all our songs, my choir teacher reads out the names of all the graduating seniors - she says whether they're honor students, adds a little personal information, and announces the college they're going to. then they get an 8th grader to present the graduating senior with a rose, or, if the senior has a sibling that is in the choir, the sibling gives them a rose. supposedly it's to show that the tradition of being in the choir is now being passed on to the next generation. And it's a really small school, so I know all the graduating seniors - hard to believe it'll be ME this year, with all my underclassman friends looking on. My sister's in 8th grade, so she was like "I'm going to get to give you your rose!" I'm really interested to see what my choir teacher will say about me, too lol. then I'll hug her, and she ALWAYS cries by the time the night is over haha</p>
<p>hahahhaa the keg race is my town's tradition. we're the class of 05, so between january 1st 05 and graduation, we're supposed to have kicked 105 kegs. it's never going to happen, but w/e, the motto is "I Believe in Miracles" haha</p>
<p>and are you kidding me? the only reason i got my mom to consent to 200 dollars is because I pointed out that I didn't buy a dress for junior prom, I wore one I'd already worn to 3 other places lol</p>
<p>haha, i'm so anti-senior year, oh man. we don't have a senior trip, and I'm not going to prom purposely. all the whining over limos and dresses is killing me every day of my young life. :)</p>
<p>i will be doing senior cut day, and rolling my eyes at senior prank.</p>
<p>(i am from canada)
i am helping to plan our senior stuff, since i am part of the student body, our grad trip is suppose to go to florida, but since we did not have enough funds, we are going to Edmonton lol
and as for prom, we have booked a hall that is far away from the hotels and clubs, and we will have charter buses to help students who don't have a driver's license lol
and we might also have a pep rally, don't know that for sure.
but right now, all these are in the beginning stages, we still have to write proposals and negotiate
our school is quite poor right now, because we just bought a score board and one of those news flash board for the front foyer. so we are at about $4000 :(
we plan to get money from our grad trip and prom lol
no dresses for me, just a suit. and i think i will get that from wal-mart :)
and same with the shoes lol</p>
<p>Grad party: we're throwing a party in my court for the three grads. dj and maybe a local band. open houses and lots of people. don't you just love suburbia?</p>
<p>senior trip: school sponsored - Disneyland. after school ends - 4 man road trip from CA to Mass (i said up to hanover, but i got vetoed...) who knows where we're going...</p>
<p>prom: on a yatch in the San Fransisco Bay. We're the biggest group this company has ever had, and they had to get this huge boat for 525 people. Yah, i'm planning it, but my main job was getting the budget feasible and arguing that a pirate theme is retarded (even if all the girls think Jonny Depp was hot with an eye patch).</p>
<p>Just realized this was for girls when i got to the dresses part...I'm gonna get a tux as soon as my date picks out her dress. She always waits til the very end, but she'll find something really beautiful and worthy of the effort.</p>
<p>Senior tradtions? I guess my class has to make some of those. Slip and sliding during state testing (even though its against the law in my town) is all i'm planning.</p>
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I'm gonna get a tux as soon as my date picks out her dress. She always waits til the very end, but she'll find something really beautiful and worthy of the effort.
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<p>Handsonthedash,</p>
<p>You sound like a good guy. some lucky 09 is going to scoop you up :) -that discussion will come up later,stay together or break up.</p>
<p>No the thread is not for girls but the do seem to be more into senior year activities. It si great to hear a guy's point of view. I like the fact that you got involved with prom because they couldn't drag a guy kicking and screaming to any of the planning for senior activites out side of the battle of the bands. Girls do seem to get more engrossed in this whole dress thing(gotta give props to my girl Blu who has taken a very down to earth approach)</p>
<p>awww thanks sybbie. my date is actually one of my best friends. There is a eight of us in a really tight knit group (four girls and four guys) that go to two different schools (four at mine, four at my date's). So out of the 10 high school dances between the two of our schools, I'll have gone with all of my best female friends and whoever else i've been seeing or been asked by.
Its hard for any of our group to be in relationships because they feel threatened by our group. Its not that we don't support each other, but like, all the girls feel like they have to compete. Even though its totally not the issue. Getting into a close relationship in college without them will be different (and probably amazingly easier).</p>
<p>When almost all of my school friends are involved with activities, its hard not to get involved. Plus, us guys normally come up with really good ideas. Like I came up with the theme's motto "Highlight the Night" (because our theme was bright neon/primary/etc colors), and my friends Jeremy and normally come up with ways to cover up the walls (all of our dances other than this years prom have been in the gym). The girls just do a lot of the initial idea planning, then guys take their turn, hand it over to the girls for final touches, and then give the work back to us guys to set-up and other grunt work.</p>
<p>oh man, that sounds so much like the Basic Eight-- have you read that book?-- creepiness. I mean, not you, but the book. It's all about this cultish little group of eight.</p>
<p>hmmm....cults. i'm pretty sure we're not one of those lol. I might have to read that, as for books about cults, I would recomend Chuck Palahniuk's (he wrote Fight Club) Survivor. Its an amazing book, and its currently being made into a movie.</p>
<p>ahh Fight Club! i bet it won't be better than Fight Club...that movie is INCREDIBLE. and no, not just because Brad Pitt is often topless in it haha</p>
<p>yeah hands, that's great. usually girls are in charge of those kinds of things, even though we had a "revolution" in our school these past two years when our class elected all guys into office lol</p>
<p>i wish our school had more girls in power. we have an allmale executive board for student council, and a male senior class president, and its been that way for at least two years. the executive board has been all male for at least the four years i've been here.
the thing is, everything gets delegated SO MUCH that who knows who actually does the work.... (and somehow i feel like half the time its me)</p>
<p>chuck palahniuk has quite the mind. anybody read choke?</p>
<p>I think I'll have a medium sized grad party with family and friends. Nothing too big. My friends will have some giant ones though to make up for it.</p>
<p>For senior trip I'm going to Hawaii with about 10 friends in early June. After that we're going camping around San Diego and then finally to top it off I'm going to Europe with a friend.</p>
<p>I'm on the Spirit, Dance, and Constitution Committee. I chair the spirit committee. I'm not helping plan prom at all. Our prom is on campus, which sucks. I'll order my tux about a week or two before prom.</p>
<p>As for senior traditions, I'm looking forward to the Baccalaureate Mass and the class competition during spirit week, which the seniors typically dominate. Also the senior tradition at my school is to get sloshed as often as possible haha.</p>
<p>i didn't really do the survey part. my bad.</p>
<p>i feel somewhat clueless about all of this. haven't really thought about grad parties, dont' have a prom or graduation dress (and am going to be home for.. two days between now and then), and as for senior traditions? i'm still getting used to the fact that i am a senior.</p>
<p>actually, as far as senior traditions go, i will spend a lot of time outside on the quad this spring. :-). and thats what's important.</p>
<p>i didn't get fight club, i have seen it twice, didn't understand it, and in the end the dude shot himself and he lived!! it was a blow to the heaD!!!!! how did he survive?</p>
<p>haha a movie of choke would be... interesting.</p>
<p>and an on-topic (can you believe it?) question: can someone explain the idea of a senior trip? is it the whole class? during the school year? pre-graduation? we don't have one, and so i guess i dont quite understand what it entails...</p>
<p>our senior trip is sponsored by whatever money the class has left - more often than not, on the day before the last day of school, the entire class goes to the beach lol</p>
<p>Our senior trip is non school sponsored. It is usually put together by a group of friends. Most seniors at my school end up at one of two locations: Hawaii or Mexico. Occasionally, people go a little more exotic such as the Carribeans or Europe. Seniors usually take it the week or two after graduation. Senior trips at my school usually entail much partying. Then again I go to an all boys prep school so our experience may be different then others.</p>