Not Worth Coming Home For

Nick Hammis ‘12

Staff Writer

            Homecoming week at Nouvel Catholic Central is usually full of fun and games with assemblies, field day, hall decorating and the parade before the football game. Unfortunately, this year was not as spirited and exciting as it has been for the last three years that the class of 2012 has been at Nouvel. First of all, due to of all the renovations done in the summer, there was no hall decorating like there usually is. Instead, each class had a side of the cafeteria they could decorate. This definitely brought the spirit level down in the school for the whole week. Students usually walk through the halls, excited to be in school, with all the decorations of homecoming week and it was just not there this year.

            Another factor missing from the Homecoming week schedule was the pancake breakfast that takes place Friday morning before all of the students receive their yearbooks from the previous year. We all still got our year books like we usually do but there was no pancake breakfast.  This was a huge shock and disappointment to the whole student body. With all of the new renovations and 3.4 million dollars that was spent on the school, I do not understand why we couldn’t save enough to have the pancake breakfast which is a huge tradition at Nouvel. We have six chandeliers in the school all costing over 1,000 dollars each. They are there for no reason whatsoever and do not even have lights in them. That money could have been better spent on the traditional pancake breakfast rather than six meaningless chandeliers.

            The 2011 Homecoming Week was definitely a disappointment for the Senior class.  They were expecting it to be the best Homecoming of their four years at Nouvel. Besides no hall decorating or pancake breakfast, the DJ at the dance was also disappointing. Not having new songs that we all love to dance and sing to, senior Austin Gronski said, “The songs that were played were the same songs that we danced to freshmen year.”  Senior Alexis Helpap stated, “It was not the normal exciting Homecoming Week that we are all used too.  It’s sad to think that our Senior Homecoming was the worst one yet.” Hopefully, the administration can learn from the things that were and were not done this year and fix them to bring the excitement back to Homecoming 2012.