{"id":3484,"date":"2023-10-17T19:57:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T23:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2023-10-17T19:57:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T23:57:32","slug":"house-of-cards-homecoming-spirit-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/house-of-cards-homecoming-spirit-week\/","title":{"rendered":"House of Cards Homecoming Spirit Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Babiha Kaur, Digital Editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Homecoming week at River Hill took place from October 2nd-6th, with the annual dance being held on the 7th. This year\u2019s theme was \u201cHouse of Cards.\u201d Throughout the week, students had the chance to show their school spirit while dressing up to match each day\u2019s theme.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In general, spirit weeks are meant to get students excited for upcoming events. Senior Aubrey Heiges believes that the purpose of spirit weeks is to \u201cget people hyped up for whatever\u2019s at the end of the week. It\u2019s kind of like a buildup. It makes me more excited.\u201d Similarly, in her opinion, junior Barbara Lembas thinks that the goal of a spirit week is to allow \u201ceveryone [to] feel connected to each other. It\u2019s for students to talk with each other more since they\u2019re doing the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every annual homecoming spirit week takes place before the dance. Students enjoy dressing up to match the unique themes. Monday was \u201cHouse of Shirts day,\u201d where students from each grade dressed up to resemble the different suits of cards. Students sported Hawaiian shirts and flowers on \u201cTropical Tuesday,\u201d <em>Barbie<\/em> attire on Wednesday, Adam Sandler outfits on Thursday, and their class t-shirts on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students enjoyed taking part in homecoming spirit week because it allowed them to connect with their peers. Sophomore Abi Asante describes, \u201cI think that it\u2019s important to show school spirit, and it\u2019s really fun just to see everybody get together, all dressed the same.\u201d Senior Divya Kumar adds, \u201cI think it\u2019s fun and it\u2019s cool to take coordinated pictures with your friends. It\u2019s something fun you can look back on later.\u201d Barbara agrees, describing, \u201cI just think it\u2019s pretty fun, you match with a lot of people, and you can take pretty funny pictures.\u201d Students are able to make fun memories during homecoming spirit week while also showing their support for the school as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although spirit weeks are meant to connect those within the school community, it may not be too effective in doing so. Barbara comments, \u201cI know that that\u2019s their goal, but I don\u2019t know if everyone feels connected to each other honestly. It\u2019s just like, we\u2019re dressed in a similar way, cool, but that\u2019s it. But still, it\u2019s nice that a lot of people are doing the same thing; it\u2019s just [that] we\u2019re not that connected to each other because of it.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, this year\u2019s homecoming spirit week was deemed a success by many. It achieved its goal of connecting students together, cheering on the football team, and promoting school spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Babiha Kaur, Digital Editor Homecoming week at River Hill took place from October 2nd-6th, with the annual dance being held on the 7th. This year\u2019s theme was \u201cHouse of Cards.\u201d Throughout the week, students had the chance to show their school spirit while dressing up to match each day\u2019s theme.&nbsp; In general, spirit weeks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":3485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[203,286,281,269,211,285,381],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homecoming","tag-journalism","tag-news","tag-rhhs","tag-river-hill","tag-river-hill-high-school","tag-spirit-week"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_9432-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","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=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}