Opening Ceremony at Clark High School: a Daily Tradition
By Craig Grant 2-13-14
All bond with each other over ice cream and snowball fights in the fertile paradise of Sochi, Russia.
Sochi, according to Wikipedia, was recently named the number two tourist destination in the world after Detroit, and it will star as one of the locations in the new children’s novel “Where’s Waldo?” spinoff “Where’s Snowden?”
The city was the site of one of the greatest spectacles in the world Thursday, February 6, when the opening ceremony aired on NBC in the United States.
Clark High School hosts its own opening ceremony in the lunchroom every day. It starts as early as 6:30 a.m. when students first begin to arrive, and it peaks at 8:05, five minutes after first period starts when students should already be in class.
In the Olympics opening ceremony, the world’s finest athletes like Shaun White, Sydney Crosby, and Vladimir Putin proudly march through the arena waving their flags and representing their respective countries and Soviet satellites.
The world’s finest students proudly enter the cafeteria in the morning, wave to their respective cliques (and Soviet satellites?), and sit with their tables. Each table brings its own unique culture to the cafeteria.
Students at some tables do homework in preparation for the school day and academic competitions, others choose to watch vines, and others gossip about their peers’ outfits. Some tables, like the Virgin Islands, have only one representative who sits alone and plays Flappy Bird.
Some tables even host students who sit down in the morning, fall asleep, and do not wake up until the 2:30 bell rings. Rumor has it that Turkey’s athletes actually fell asleep during the spectacle after they ate each other. On any note, there is a table for everyone at Clark’s opening celebration.
The climax of the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics occurred when Soviet hockey legend Vladislav Tretiak lit the iconic torch. Clark High School sadly hosts no hockey legends. There is no parallel here.
Go team United States. You represent Clark High School.
Every four years the world gets to experience a rare and special event: the Winter Olympics. From countries like Jamaica, Iran, and Kazakhstan, hails the cast from the movie Cool Runnings, the cast from the Disney movie Aladdin, and the cast from the movie Borat respectively.
