Final Flings

Now even though it's practically age-old history, I figure I may as well post about the final flings of the Bibleschool year. In my mind they began when the SWAT team went out to eat at Applebees (and in case you've forgotten, my team included Diane, Kim, Amy, Vanlora, Adam, and Clyde) after sports on Tuesday. We had a high old time together, ordering a whole bunch of appetizers at half price and sharing and splitting the cost. It was thoroughly enjoyable to watch the Sox cream the Yanks, plus just being together, even though we never even talked about decathlon stuff (also ancient history) except to say it was great to be on a team together and to have Kimberly as our captain and all that sweet stuff. We had an occasion where a spit ball fight was almost started, but Diane punched Adam so he wouldn't do it and just after he had decided not to he managed to spill his water all over the table. I guess he might have deserved that one. . . .

The second fling of course was the End of the Year Party. As a staff kid, this is definitely a highlight to the finishing of bibleschool. It always includes goodies that are always fabulous (provided by the fabulous Diane) and skits that are often fabulous, depending on the people and the energy of putting them together. So after stuffing our faces with everything to make our teeth rot, we sat back and enjoyed the show (I video taped it for those who may one day wish to see them).

Of course I have seen many skits, such as the one of Craig being the renowned Uncle Tim in his infamous manner of driving ("Was that a red light we just went through?"), or the violent game of Spoons with Joe B. Jr. when Melissa was in bibleschool. Or Andrea calling Craig down from the Dorm as chore boy to pick up things for her when she dropped them on the floor, or, one of my especial favorites, when Andrea, Amy, Isaac, and Carmelo came together as elderly ones in the future and discussed everything that had happened to all their class mates in later years ("Craig and Kim--who would have every thought?"-Andrea). I even recall the time as a six-year-old being in a skit with other "staff kids" in which we pretended to be our parents in staff meeting sharing information that our kids had spied out about the students ("Jayna says that Eric is taking too many personal days,"-Jayna as her dad) So as you can imagine, I have seen my fill of talent and humor as far as skits and spoofs go. But of course one never tires of these things.

The first skit was a very creative one put on by the first year girls. In my knowledge I don't recall anyone doing a skit on the third-years receiving their diplomas, so this was rather original. As can be expected, the similar characteristics were properly exaggerated. Katherine, as a solemn representation of my dad, started the graduation with Sara Lee coming up to give a testimony. Megan, who was posing as her, began her speech, but her classmates spent the whole time talking loudly to each other so she responded with a desperate cry of, "Nobody ever listens to me!" before then fleeing the scene. Then of course when Bethany's turn came, Vanlora responded with a stimulating swagger and after taking her diploma, giving Katherine a friendly punch on the shoulder before returning to her seat. Next when Sarah Ann's turn came (played by Megan), she came with delighted flapping of her hands in front of her face. Bria, as an excellent over-done imitation of Elizabeth, then started getting all worried and asking Kimberly if her hair was all right and everything. As she approached the podium for the long awaited diploma, she then managed to fall flat on her face! With obvious strain on regaining composure, she accepted the diploma and collapsed in her seat with declarations of how humiliating that was. Lastly Kimberly (played by none other than Amy) came to get her diploma, and as she did so a voice started calling out, "Oh KIMberleeeyyyy. . . !" Then came Megan trotting in on the scene once again, this time posing as a very dashing young man named Jack (Kim's dream guy's name) in which then followed a chaotic babble of his Tacoma truck (another dream of Kimberly's) and Katherine's righteous alarm, with Jack's protestations that she's perfect, Kim's replies that it's okay and the diploma doesn't matter to her, before the lovers fled the scene. "I knew she had been to the chiropractor way too many times," Elizabeth commented and the skit was over.

That gives you an idea of the evening. It was followed by various skits of the guys, including demonstrations of some rather brutal games they play (well, do you believe in trying to throw darts at eachothers' bare feet?), they're typical afternoon work meeting, an incident of the girls encouraging Bria (or TJ) in her unfruitful attempts to spit (his mouth was a bit foamy afterward), the story of Uncle Tim beating TJ with a stick (to put it in over simplified terms), and the guys' version of the way girls work. This included them pretending to be sweating and gasping through the most menial tasks of just whisking up stuff in a bowl, mopping the floor, or dusting. Relieved, they take a water break, then return and after a few more minutes of pasted on agony they collapsed in exhaustion with triumphant happiness that it was 1:15 and they were done.

The third years' skit proved to be one based on when TJ and Dave killed some chipmunks with acorns and skinned one of them to keep. Therefore, this was called Revenge, and you can just imagine what happened. Bethany and Elizabeth made wonderful chipmunks, and realizing that they hadn't seen Dale for ages, they then see him around the neck of the dreaded Davie with TJ just next to him. They then plotted their revenge. And that was the hilarious gist of it all.

Now finally, the graduation went swimmingly. I really must say that I will greatly miss the graduates, but as this post has gone on long enough, I shan't say anything more on the subject.