Love-themed spirit days and games filled Amador from Tuesday, Feb. 10, to Friday, Feb. 13. Leadership brought old and new activities to campus, increasing student interaction and connection with Love Week.
From pizza to love bugs
Love Week offered a variety of different activities outside the typical dress-up spirit days. Pizza bingo gained involvement from the whole school, giving students the chance to redeem a slice of pizza after 6th period.
“[Pizza Bingo] is a game that everybody can play throughout the day, and it actually got really good participation, which we were very happy about,” said ASB event coordinator and head of the leadership spirit committee Stella Short (‘27).
Colorful “Love Bugs,” clothespins with hand-drawn designs by leadership, travelled from person to person throughout the day. Between classes, students clipped love bugs onto each other, spreading small reminders of Love Week.
“I’ve always loved the love bugs…I started doing it a lot last year and this year. Me and my friends were just having fun with it, so I really liked that,” said Allison Chen (‘27).
Aside from clever games and activities, leadership promoted a classic dress-up spirit day to end Love Week. Students showed up to school on Friday in red, pink, and white in celebration of Valentine’s Day.
“I’ve been seeing a lot of people participating in the days that we’ve been doing…from what I heard, people who were participating in [the spirit week] were having a good time,” said Short.
Students hoped more advertisements had been done prior, so they were more aware of the spirit week. Nonetheless, students still appreciated the love-themed festivities.
“All of the other spirit weeks, we had a lot of social media [advertisement] or just people talking about it. But this [spirit week] was more low-key…But I feel like in general, it’s still a pretty cute week,” said Chen.
Leadership in action
Leadership aimed to increase student engagement with Love Week, learning from past positive feedback and proposing new ideas. Planning began months in advance to ensure the week ran smoothly.
“I was in charge of delegating the tasks and helping brainstorm ideas… We had a basic idea of what we wanted to do, so we figured it out before the 1st semester ended. So when we came back, we had the week already planned,” said leadership student Rachel Thalman (‘26).
Though ideas and plans were established ahead of time, leadership students still had a series of tasks to complete in preparation for Love Week.
“My committee definitely took a lot of charge over this one, and they were doing a really great job…The preparation was making the love bugs; we ordered over a 1000 of those, and so we had to paint and decorate them all. And then making posters, of course, and making online flyers and things,” said Short.
