Playoffs!

P. L. A. Y. O. F. F. S.

                Its that time again. The time after football season dedicated to playoffs. Teams from all around the state hope the whole season that they will qualify. Playoffs are divided into classes. 1A, 2A, 3A, etc. You have to win a total of 5 games or more. If you only win 5, you get to go by the amount of points you have. Teams miss the deadline by only a few and are so upset. The teams that do get to go are so excited. Most teams love to go just for the experience, and some come back very lucky to be moving on in the bracket. Anticipating the pairings show is the best part. That’s the show on tv that tells you who you play, or if you even go. It’s such a great feeling to see your teams name on the show. This year, the Paris Tigers are going, its going to be great. Im a cheerleader, so it makes it ever more fun to know that in a way I am apart of the team. Im ready to have some fun screaming for the boys to get a touchdown. Im so excited to be going and to cheer tonight. Our team is made up of mostly seniors, and our last home game was senior night and the game to decide if we were going to the playoffs. The boys really wanted it bad, and they definitely deserved the win. The deserve tonight’s win too. They all are so pumped to play; not one person isn’t going to be at that game tonight. We had a pep assembly at school today, to send the boys off, and let them know that we will all be there cheering for them at this really important game. Pep assemblies are awesome, everyone is laughing and having a good time, and you can tell the boys are in the zone. The cheerleaders and band perform the fight song, and the cheerleaders do some cheers to get everyone else in the zone. The ride up there will be the best part. Its awesome to know that the boys are going to be getting pumped up, and getting ready to win this game.  When we get there the boys will warm up and the cheerleaders will too, while the crowd gets out the blankets and air horns. I cant wait for tonight, I just hope and pray that we will play good and win!

Senior Night(:

This Friday, is the biggest football game of the year. Its senior night, and it’s the last game of the season. We have to win this game because if we win, we can go to playoffs. We went to playoffs in 2008, but I wasn’t at the high school yet so it wasn’t really that important to me. Now that im a sophomore, and a high school cheerleader, its really important that we go. I love football and I know that everyone that plays, or goes to the games, loves football too. We really want to see our boys go to the playoffs this year. If we go, we get to take turner buses and head up to an awesome school to play. This week, the team we are playing, has lost too many games, and they have lost their chances to go to the playoffs. This could either be good or bad. They could go easy on us and let us win, or they could go really hard, and make us lose. The boys have been practicing really hard this past week, and they are all really confident that we will win, or play good at least. They have been playing really good lately, and that has boosted their confidence a ton. I really hope we play good enough to beat Rantoul and go on to the playoffs.

                Not only is this game our last chance to go to the playoffs, it is our last home game, which means that it is Senior Night! Senior night is so much fun and it is really emotional. Its so much fun because, we all are pumped up to win the game and the cheerleaders and band mess around and try to get the crowd pumped up. The football boys are really rowdy, and they know they have to win this one last home game. They get so fired up and its really cool to see how much the football boys actually love football and we get to see how much they actually care that this is their last home game they will play while in high school. Every year, the cheerleaders put up our senior mounts. A senior mount is when we stunt, and the seniors are the flyers. This year, we are building a pyramid. Its going to be so cool! Everyone will love it. The band has learned how to play some new songs, and that will get the pack cheering and dancing. It will be awesome. Senior Night is also really emotional for everyone, not just the seniors. They announce the seniors at the football game, and people start to cry. We have all grown up with the seniors and this is the last time they will cheer at a football game, or play football. It’s really emotional. Everyone gets each other presents, and some teams even have senior moments. That is a time where the seniors can sit down with everyone else and tell stories about the good times they have had in high school. The tears really come flowing for that one.

1st Quarter is almost over!

So the end of the first quarter is seriously one day away. This year has gone by way too fast already! Since the quarter is almost over, everyone is worried sick about their grades. I sure am! That’s the problem with me and other students too! We mess around early in the year because well we just still want it to be summer. Since we mess around and don’t do any homework in classes, our grades start to slip. We all have a chance to get onto mms and I used to every night but ive been slacking this year. Getting back to my point, students don’t realize how bad their grades are until the week or two before. Everyone freaks those last few days before its over trying to put grades in and everything else. A lot of students get into trouble if they have bad grades with their parents. Some students just don’t even tell their parents because well honestly, neither of them care that much. This year my mom has a new rule that if I get a c or anything lower ill be grounded. I hope my grades will add up to give me at least a b. You really see a big change in everyone’s effort level right before grades are due. Everyone has to get their bad grades up. My teacher, Mr. Ogle, has been talking lately about how grades won’t matter in the future. I agree, sure they matter for college but a letter grade wont help you get a job or get you out of trouble. He also brought up the fact that people just go to school and do the work without trying very hard. They just do the bare minimum of what is needed to succeed. When they do that, are they really learning anything? Probably not to be honest.

            Another big thing with the quarter ending means that people start to switch out of and into classes. If you’re in Driver’s Ed like me you switch into P.E. Some people go from P.E. to Driver’s Ed. and some just switch to different teachers. I don’t like switching into new classes because it feels like you just start over again, its really boring. You have more class rule sheets that you have to have your parent sign. Its just a lot of work. The teachers are also a lot different. They all have different rules and expectations. You have to get more supplies needed for different classes and stuff like that.  There is an advantage to switching classes though. You get to learn more things and get the required amount of credits to move onto the next year. They all add up at the end of your high school career and you have to have a certain amount of those credits to graduate. Some colleges even look to see the classes you take when your in high school. That could help with being accepted into some of the schools you want to attend.