Does your school have any clubs? Yup, we have clubs up the wazoo.
What are they? ::takes yearbook out from desk and rumages through::
Student Congress (which actually isn't a "club" so much as something you have to get yourself elected into)
NHS, which is also not so much a club but, quite literally, a society. And it's national so I'm sure most all of your high schools have it.
Principal's Advisory Council which is something you have to get invited to after you apply.
Interhigh (a joint club with the two other hs in our district. This also has an application process)
DECA which is a business club
Student Recognition Council which does things like birthday shoutouts and give awards and such.
Quest which is a Bible study club.
SADD (Students Against Distructive Decisions). I think you all pretty much get that.
Environmental Club which handles recycling and agriculture around the school. They've been VERY busy this year...all you Buffalonians know why!
French Club
Spanish Club
Latin Club
Masterminds or "The proud geeks" as they're affectionatly known as. Yes, they created the name, I'm not just being mean. They actually compete against other schools with the most random bits of trivia ever.
Chess Club. They sit around and play chess which can basically be expected by the chess club.
AFS. It's a club that works with foreign exchange students. Every month we go and do something with them (skating, bowling, dinner and a movie, sleepover at the zoo, etc.) and at the end of the year we all go to WDW before they fes-es go back home!
Harry Potter Club. It was formed just this past year but the advisor is leaving the school so it's out.
Science Olympiad. They compete with other schools in well, science.
Computer Club...pretty self-explanitory.
Mock Trial. I think most schools have this so I'm not going to go into too much detail.
Art Club...again, a no-brainer as far as knowing what they do goes.
WISP. This club is so close to my heart. It's a literary and art magazine that we form based on student submissions. AND, to make it all the much better, I actually have a very good picture of me with the other members...eventhough you can see my bra strap, but that's okay, it's a good picture nonetheless...moving on.
Shakespeare Guild. They basically do Shakespeare during the year but then one day towards the end of the year, they do "drive bys" and do about a 5-10 minutes revival of classic Shakespeare with a modern twist.
Southern Exposure. They write articles that are supposed to be published in the community paper but the people at the paper very rarely actually put it in.
Spectrum. It's our "Gay/Straight Alliance" which is supposed to make people less ignorant, I guess. It's basically the common concensus that it does more harm than good.
Pep Club. Fancy name for the cheerleaders, really.
Interact. It's a community service club. They go to soup kitchens and hospitals and such.
Stage Crew. If you don't know what that is, I'm sorry I didn't send you flowers following your lobotomy.
Ditto with the theater folks. It's not really a "club" per se because you audition for your part. But basically you get the same groups of people for each musical so it may as well be.
Pit Orchestra does the music for the musicals.
Jazz Ensemble, which is also by audition.
Wind Ensemble, see above.
Wind Symphony. In all honesty, I'm not really sure what the deal with that is.
Choirs of all kinds: all men and all women by audition as well as a mixed choir which is by audition and another which anyone can do.
Searchlight which is the yearbook. I may or may not get into this this upcoming year. We'll see how schedules work out.
We're (meaning about 6 of us) are starting a school newspaper for the first time in the school's history this year.
And then all the sports which I'm not getting into. I don't know whether or not you consider those "clubs".
What clubs are you in? See the ones that are italicized (sp?) and underlined above.
What do you like about it? For WISP and the newspaper, writing is a passion of mine and it's something that I truely love doing. There is a whole lot of work to do for them but it's so worth it and both of them have very few people so it really is like a work party every meeting. AFS is also LOADS of fun. There is not one "unfun", to make up a word, thing about it. Not to mention, we go to WDW at the end of the year. The best part about that is seeing the looks on the faces of the foreign exchange students. I like to compare it to when a parent first sees their child's face when the first lay eyes on the castle. You know these people from where ever they may be from have never been and will VERY likely never ever be there again. I do Interact, in all honesty, because I need community service. This year, I will be inducted into NHS, but I didn't mark it yet because I haven't experienced it yet.
Not to mention, it pretty much common sense that activities are not frowned upon when college applications come around.
My advice for you is to find something that you absolutly love and shove your way in there. And it's also really important to stick with things for a long period of time, especially if you can work your way up to holding an office or position. Or, if you absolutly cannot find ANYTHING, look into starting one of your own, seriously - pick a topic, find an advisor, and seriously look into it.
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