JSB

What was your May 17^th like? Mine? Some very eventful, crazy fun. J

Every year towards the end of the school year, BFA holds a banquet for all the juniors and seniors called Junior Senior Banquet.  This year’s JSB was held at a local German church’s banquet hall where all the upper classmen were served a nice dinner and were entertained with a variety of student led singers, bands, and performances.  In essence, it’s what everyone else probably knows of as prom. 

Getting ready. 

            Usually JSB is held on a Saturday, but this year it was on a Friday, which meant that we had 13 girls scurrying home from school to get all dazzled up in a short 2 hours for their big evening.  At Witt, the RAs and any other female staff at school set up our living room into a giant prep room with stations all throughout where we help some girls do their hair, makeup, and any other last minute touches before we take pictures and send them off to their big night. 

All 13 juniors and seniors of Witt.

Our 5 juniors.

And 8 seniors.

            Once all the upper classmen are at their banquet, the sophomores usually plan a fun evening for the freshman.  But this year, we don’t have any freshman, so we staff got together with the sophomores and planned some fun stuff.  To start off the night, we took our 5 sophomores down to the Rhine River where we enjoyed a picnic of doner wraps (a beloved Middle Eastern dish).  Then we came back to the dorm and made shamrock shakes for the girls while they made a giant blanket fort to watch the movie Shrek in. Sounds like a really simple evening for them, but it was a blast and I think the girls really enjoyed it.

Our sophomores playing near and in the river. 

Picnic!

Some more playing. 

Emily and I with 4 of the sophomores.

Sophomore loving on our amazing dorm mom.

Their fort. :)

            Once JSB finishes at 10pm, the seniors stay for a dance party until midnight, while the juniors get picked up.  To surprise the girls and keep up a Witt tradition from 2 years ago, I picked 4 of our juniors up and took them to McDonalds for McFlurries.  The girls had such a ball going to a fast food place in their nice dresses and actually enjoyed all the glances and stares. 

The juniors and I at McDonald's for McFlurries. 

             At midnight we picked our 8 seniors up from the dance, guided our juniors to bed, and woke our sleepy sophomores up from under their fort and sent them off to sleep, and thus ended our very crazy, eventful, fun evening.