Ollies Follies...

Sophomore 2010 Ollies Follies T-shirt

Freshman 2009 Ollies Follies T-Shirt

So my school always has a competition at the beginning of the year called Ollies Follies.  Last year the classes theme was a certain city.  As a freshman, our class had Chicago.  This year the theme's are Disney related (they're just technically not allowed to say Disney. lol).  The sophomore class as computer animation or Pixar.  Every year, each class has a different T-shirt to go along with their theme.  The picture with the green is of the sophomore shirt for this year.  The picture with the yellow is of the freshman shirt last year.  The colors of the shirts are a little bit off because I took the pictures with my phone, but you get the general idea.  The green is really more of a brighter lime green.  The picture looks more like an olive green.

So for more about Ollies Follies.  This competition takes up the first two weekends of school.  The first Friday kicks everything off with a whole school Block Party.  We just go, eat food, hang out, play games, and have fun!  Saturday (or today in this instance) consists of athletic games in the morning and afternoon.  Some of the games are ultimate frisbee, flag football, softball, and many others.  Tonight there will be relay games (known as wacky games to most).  These are just crazy events where people get muddy and wet and have to eat all kinds of food just after spinning around in circles with their heads on a baseball bat.  (This is not all at once. lol)  People scream and support their class, and even some of the other classes!  The next weekend there is a variety show.  Each class has two parts.  One part is a choreographed dance sequence.  The next part is usually some sort of acting.  This is the most looked forward to part of Ollies Follies.  The most people participate.  We all gather together into the room where we have chapel.  They've got all kinds of lights going and music and it's just awesome!  People are hyped up and having an awesome time!!  Once the performances start going, it's always a riot to watch everything.  I'll find videos on YouTube from last year and include them in this post.  It's just AWESOME! :)

This is the opening video we had.  When it goes dark, it's because Smitty and his daughter came running in the back and so the cameras turned live and followed him up to the stage.

Through out the night, in between each class, we had various funny commercials like this one.




Here are some of the things we saw last year from the classes!
(They may not be the best quality as they aren't the official videos)

This is part of the freshman's show.


This is the acting part of the sophomore's show.  They did their's exclusively in a video (for the acting).


Juniors Part 1


Juniors Part 2


Seniors!!!!! They won!  And if you notice toward the end of the video (around 5:30-5:45) to the right of the screen right at the end of the last dance, there's a proposal!!!  And then Smitty draws everyone's attention to it!


So basically, Ollies Follies is just amazing!!!! :)