10. School Spirit

School spirit is a great thing to have. It gives you a sense of pride almost when you show school spirit. Even if you do not particularly like your school, most likely if you are with people from other schools bashing yours, you would not be able to help but stand up for your school. The school you attend is an indirect reflection of yourself, so if someone says something negative against your school, it is almost like them saying something negative about you personally. When it comes to Pleasant Plains High School, I would say that as a whole, we have a lot of school spirit. This has been proven this past week as all the classes got super competitive, and we have had such a large turnout of class participation every day, spirit day being the most participated in event. I would bet that more students and their families than not show up to the football game tonight, and most students will probably come to the homecoming dance. I am in student council, so that pretty much is a give-away that I posses at least some school spirit. Every representative in student council has school spirit, because if we didn't, then we would not spend our time attending meetings for the school, or decorating for the dances, or doing many of the other things we spend our time doing to better the school. At the football games is where the school spirit shows the most as a whole. More last year than this year, but it is still present. Last year we went all out, even at the away games. I remember taking the fan bus to a game against the Havana ducks, and we had a 'sea of red' and every time we got a touchdown, Devon Moore would throw up a hunting duck decoy and we would all pretend to shoot it. This year, along with homecoming week, I went to homecoming. I didn't really want to that much, but I did and showed school spirit I guess? Yep!