The Quad City Student Hunger Drive, in which my high school participates, had its kickoff tonight. Our National Honor Society chapter, plus a couple of other interested students, spent the last few weeks preparing our entry into the annual skit competition. In our skit, we follow choreographed motions around the stage holding boxes with letters on them while singers in the foreground sing our parody of some popular song (I forget which) until the end, when we stack the boxes in such a way that the letters on them spell "River Bend", the name of the food bank backing up the QC Student Hunger Drive.
I noticed that almost every skit was composed of a parody of a popular song sung by a handful of people and some movement from the rest. Maybe the other schools saw that we won last year with that arrangement and followed the model. Though some were thoroughly entertaining, it got a little cheap after a while. In my opinion, the most powerful skit was the one without any spoken or sung words, only a solemn tune in the background. Food was handed over and a sign with "actions speak louder than words" was held up.
After all the skits concluded, the judges deliberated for a moment, and produced a proclamation that there was a tie - involving my school - for first place. Each school performed its skit again, and the winner was determined by the loudness of the cheers. We lost that tiebreak and the two-ton bonus from Hy-Vee went in full to the other school, but we were satisfied with our own performance.
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