Home basketball games are always a pretty big deal, but the enormity of this one was amplified by all the events surrounding it. To make my Friday night as hectic as possible, I somehow managed to get myself involved in 3 events at the same time, which meant I only got to see about half of a basketball game!
Any good sporting event has a concession stand. Food is an easy way for a group to make money. The Junior Class used this basketball game as a fundraiser for things like JSB (Junior/Senior Banquet – BFA’s equivalent of Prom) and Senior Trip. As a Junior Class sponsor, I was helping out with concessions.
Jill Young did fries:
The juniors helped by putting burgers, hot dogs, and fries on the plates as people ordered them. 
There were lots of hungry people!
We sold all the food tonight, which means we don’t have to come back tomorrow!
The Juniors did an additional fund-raiser: Coffee House! It doesn’t bring in as much money, but it’s more fun to serve Starbucks and listen to live music than to slave over the greasy fries.
The cookies were amazing! So was the chocolate almond latte! It was genuine Starbucks, but came at a better price.
Every good coffee house needs some atmosphere. Students auditioned to take part in this special evening of relaxation.
The coffee house was situated conveniently adjacent to the Book Swap. This is a fun BFA tradition: people bring in old books and trade them for “new” ones. I brought in 7 of my own and came out with 7 bigger books!
Strong’s Concordance should have counted for at least 2 books….
Meanwhile, there were basketball games going on in the gym.
Katie Roberts put together BFA’s first ever Pep Band; members of the beginning band joined with staff members (some of whom hadn’t touched their instrument in 10 years) to form a cheerful atmosphere for the games.
“Then I modestly took my place as the one and only bass,” although we didn’t Oom-pah up and down the square; we simply sat/stood in the corner of the gym and livened up the crowd.
It was quite the night. Music really can set the atmosphere for an evening, whether it is an adrenaline-pumping tune from a pep band in a gym or the calm sound of guitar in a coffee house next to piles of books just waiting for a reader.
I couldn’t take A.P. serious in her lesson! She accidentally rubbed some of the blue off her face and said, “Ah! Now half my face is gone!”
Other kids showed up in blue and white to support the team:
We in the Pep Band got the crowd excited at half time and between varsity games.
The games were close, but unfortunately we lost most of them by a slim margin. They played well!
