Valentine's Day

We have Halloween and we have a season of giving, so it's no surprise that we have a Valentine's Day celebration, complete with a coin drive, flower delivery service, and a Valentine's Day dance. It's also no surprise that we're celebrating Valentines Day through out the entire week after Valentine's Day. For some reason we just can't celebrate holidays on their actual date: we celebrated Halloween a week early (parents weekend) and we had our season of giving in November (December break). S'anyways, we had a coin drive for Gaza but I don't think that went really well because we already had a major coin drive for Gaza in January. Then the student government and student live office ran a flower delivery service that let students by friendship flowers and romance flowers for the friends and valentines. Of course, students could send flowers anonymously if they wanted. I'm happy to say that I even got an anonymously sent flower, though it was a friendship flower. It made my day, but I have to admit that I felt a little disconcerted when I saw a sophomore girl with a bouquet medley of friendship and romance flowers. Then two nights ago the school had its Valentine's Day Dance. It was actually because of this dance that we celebrated Valentine's Day a week late. They didn't start planning and promoting the dance until two days for Thursday, the 12th; and so the day students and weekday boarders didn't have enough time to plan. Overall, though, our Valentine's Day celebration was just as successful as those for Halloween and the season of giving.