Fall Is Here!
Sweater weather is finally here! The leaves are changing and everyone is ordering their pumpkin spice beverages.
Fall typically begins the holiday and brings happiness amongst one another. Numerous people have annual traditions for the fall season. Picking apples and carving pumpkins is a very common activity shared throughout the season. Many people enjoy going to haunted houses, corn mazes, fairs, and carnivals.
Faith Wittman (junior) and Justina Nguyen (junior) both stated “I love fall!” Faith said fall was her favorite season. “I always look forward to football Fridays because I feel like it kinda kicks off the fall season.” Like many others, Faith was not able to enjoy her football games this year as she would any other year due to the pandemic. Justina tries to get herself into any fall activity she can possibly get herself into. This year, she had to find an alternative. Justina was able to go to a corn maze and drink a bunch of pumpkin-spiced drinks. She plans on doing some more activities at home as the season goes on.
HALLOWEEN
Some children in their favorite superhero costume- others in their favorite princess costume, all race around the block on the lookout for the house with the best candy. Their parents insist on wearing a jacket or coat over their costumes due to the frigid temperatures. This does not fly with the children; the jacket will ruin their perfect costume. After losing the fight with their parents, they finally agree to put on the jacket and continue their hunt, racing to yell, “Trick or treat!”.
How does Halloween work in a pandemic? Costumes
don’t become the only scare of the night. Parents have much more to worry about
than enforcing their kid(s) to wear a jacket. Will there be social distancing?
Will masks be the new jackets? There will not be official answers to these
questions until Halloween rolls around October 31st. Kids and their parents are
unpredictable, but what can we expect from high school students?
Many students at our age level believe they have outgrown Halloween’s holiday traditions, while others feel quite the opposite. I look at it this way: there are either diehard Halloween enthusiasts or “Halloween died years ago”, students. For this article, I talked to two enthusiasts.
Rachel Williams loves everything about the fall season including Halloween. Typically for Halloween she tells me, “We . . . go trick or treating with all of our friends . . . last year it was only me and my other friend Cassie. But . . . this year we’re startin it back up
again”. She insists to me that even with the virus she’s, “definitely still
going trick or treating”, she will “ just [have to] match [her] mask to [her]
outfit”.
Lydia Gordner typically, “Run(s) around town” on
Halloween. She enjoys, “Run(ning) around and scare(ing) children” and will continue to do that again this year she believes.
They both believe to properly take advantage of
the Holiday some precautions should be taken. Lydia suggests rather than trick ‘or’ treating enjoying something like “a scary movie” with friends, “rather
than being out and about” might be a good alternative. Rachel’s final words to
students are, “Don’t go out if you’re feeling sick, obviously . . . stay safe,
and take precautionary measures wherever you’re going.
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