{"id":2262,"date":"2022-03-08T10:26:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T15:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2022-03-08T11:57:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:57:51","slug":"valentines-day-recap-be-a-sweetheart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/valentines-day-recap-be-a-sweetheart\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentines Day Recap: Be a Sweetheart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Kathryn Roth and Salma Zaghari, Staff Writers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the day of love at River Hill High School, Valentine’s Day, which this year fell on Monday, February 14th, students walked in to see the well-decorated hallways by our hardworking SGA and the media center with love all around. Students appreciated the decorations but also still have their own, strong feelings about the \u201clove day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decorations were put up by means of a series of SGA-organized events.  A lot of students, including volunteers who were not in SGA, helped make all of the hearts, strings, and any decorations that were up on Monday. Freshman SGA secretary, Estella Chen explains, \u201cOur theme was \u2018Be a sweetheart\u201d and the goal was to have students write things they love about each other or their lives in general on sticky notes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another attempt to spread the love was handing out Hershey Kisses \u201con the Friday before Valentine’s Day, so we had SGA members sit in for all the lunch shifts to pass out free chocolates to the freshman,\u201d continued Estella. She added that their goal in total was to unify the freshman body, due to covid a lot of prior plans had also been canceled and that the opportunity was nice. Our SGA did a lot to organize and the freshman class showed their gratitude.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These acts of kindness from our SGA were very thoughtful, but for some students, they take the special day as they do every other day. \u201cAll I do is pick out a cute outfit and flaunt it at school,\u201d explains Junior Adelaide Britten, \u201cmy friends and I might take pictures or something but overall, it is a throwaway holiday to me.\u201d Friends can be sweeter than the actual candy you get on February 14th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teenagers can have mixed feelings around this time of year based on their relationship status. Junior Samantha Densel talks about how \u201cValentine\u2019s day can be super cute. However, my boyfriend goes to a different school, so we weren\u2019t about to hang out on Valentine\u2019s day.\u201d Everyone can be in different situations which is why the holiday has many sides to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being in the spirit is achievable when you can \u201c\u200bspend the day with someone you like and care for. However, for a lot of people, it\u2019s a day where people in relationships showcase their significant others which turns this seemingly sweet day, bittersweet for many single people,\u201d mentioned Senior Eric Rudo. Some use this day as their own \u201choliday\u201d and take it to relax and focus on themselves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Kathryn Roth and Salma Zaghari, Staff Writers On the day of love at River Hill High School, Valentine’s Day, which this year fell on Monday, February 14th, students walked in to see the well-decorated hallways by our hardworking SGA and the media center with love all around. Students appreciated the decorations but also still…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screenshot-2022-03-08-115724.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}