Halloween Dance Preparations - MSCVG President

     In about September of 2002, the MSCVG (Miniature Sports, Cards, and Video Games) Club came up with the idea to host a Halloween dance. It all started when Sara Morgado, Joanne Sundrud, and I heard that our school (New Tech High) wasn't going to have one this year. So we were looking around in a Halloween shop one day and just decided to do it ourselves.

     Joanne and I mainly constructed the dance and had barely any help from our school or the rest of our club. We started out by brainstorming what we wanted the school to look like. Joanne made sketches of the entrance and the atrium of our school and what we would do to them, and I made lists and lists of what we needed to buy and do for the dance.

     We then went shopping. At first we only looked for things that we needed and we got prices on them. We then estimated how much money it would take to construct this dance. We received our funding from the Student Store of our school, which Joanne runs, and went around to get invoices from the different stores we needed to shop at. We had Pam Tuthill from our school write us out checks and then we picked up everything that we needed.

     However, that was definitely not the end of the dance. After we had all the supplies we had to construct the entrance, which we were making look like the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It took days upon days to draw, cut, paint, and transfer the entrance for the dance. We also made a few other decorations that we needed around the school.

     Joanne put in a lot of her time to drawing sketches for the dance, constructing the entrance, shopping, making the dance tickets, and of course, decorating. We decorated for 4 straight hours, maybe more, from the time we got out of school to the time the dance started at 7PM. We also contacted parents and students to get donations for food and decorations. We had tons of food at the dance (thanks to parents) and the school hardly looked like Tech High anymore. We also had horror movies playing in one of the classrooms for those who don't like to dance.

     All in all, the Halloween dance was an excellent experience. It was hard, but it was fun, and it was something that we did on our own for the most part. The two of us (along with some help along the way) spent almost the whole month of October working on the dance. It was our life, and when it was over it felt like we had absolutely nothing to do.

 

                                                         - Cristina Albers  (MSCVG Club President)