As for me, I was a huge, huge, HUGE band geek in school. I was in the marching band and pep band (I played trumpet)--I was even drum major my senior year, which was totally fun and surprisingly hard. Gee, I wonder why people my age didn't want to listen to me boss them around. haha
I was also in the French club--we didn't really do a whole lot, except make crepes. Mmmmm, crepes...
Other than that, I didn't much after-school stuff, except for participate in the school musicals/plays (either by acting, or by playing trumpet in the pit orchestra). I'm soooo not athletic, so I didn't do sports. Trust me, it was safer for everyone that way.
What about you? Did/do you participate in extracurricular activities?
Ooh, crepes do sound great!
ReplyDeleteI was a theater nut. I acted, sang, and did tech. I practically lived in that theater!
There were extracurricular activities in high school? I was too busy reading comics to notice apparently.
ReplyDeleteI was active in my band, The Beach Rats... and my boyfriend, the lead guitarist.
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I wasn't into anything related to my high school. You couldn't keep me there any longer than I had to be, uh-uh. LOL.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I volunteered at a pet store several days a week until I was old enough to get my worker's permit and then started working there. If I wasn't doing that, I was loitering around the shopping center with my friends or reading. : )
I was on the swim team and the soccer team, and in the theater and swing choir, and German club, and the school paper.
ReplyDelete((waives pom poms madly)) GooooOOOOO TEAM!
I was involved in probably WAY too much.
ReplyDelete** Cheerleading (I made varsity my junior year, which was a big deal because only two other junior girls did...I was captain my senior year)
** Musical theatre and drama (all four years...was student choreogrpaher my sophomore year and had the female lead in the musical my senior year)
** Student Council
** Yearbook
** Choir
** National Honor Society
** National French Honor Society (and taught a weekly French class to 1st graders...that was super fun!)
** Model UN
** peer tutoring
** SOS (Save Our Surroundings)...the environmentalism club
** Peer Development Program (upperclass mentor for freshmen)
** Dancing (although that wasn't associated with the high school, of course...that was completely separate)
** Prom committee
I think that's it. But I could be missing something. What can I say...I was a joiner. It's a disease. LOL
Though I've never considered myself much of a "joiner," I somehow ended up involved in a number of activities in HS:
ReplyDelete* Orchestra (violin)
* Arts magazine (editorial staff)
* Yearbook (senior yr only - drafted by my friend who was editor)
* Stagecrew for two theater productions
* Beta club (math & science kept me out of NHS)
* AFS (summer exchange to Norway)
* Forensics (serious poetry category)
* Writers Club (headed by local YA author Jocelyn Riley)
* Youth writers conference (7th-12th grades)
In contrast, I was only involved in two activities in college, the arts mag and my sorority.
:raises hand: Band nerd here. First chair flute. Our band did marching at football games, playing from the bleachers for basketball and in the spring we were a symphonic band.
ReplyDeleteI was also a member of the Quiz Bowl team throughout HS, and the science club in sixth grade.
Yes, I was, and always will be, a geek. The closest I got to a cool-kid thing was the Senior play, because some of the most popular were into that.
Drill Team the first two years--cheerleader the nexy. Senior year, I focused on...not much. I was in a play.
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