GSIS 10 Year Anniversary Yearbook: Memories | Page 156

Jin Weisser and Nick Lee pull the Tug-of-War rope with
their other eight sophomore peers in an attempt to beat
the freshman. The sophomores dominated the game
winning the competition against all high school grade
levels.

After
the end of every sports season,
the SCA hosts a pep
rally in these. In these pep
rallies, students and teacher alike
participate in games, chant the GSIS
fight song, and beat on thundersticks
and clapper.
These pep rallies are not only a time
where the GSIS community comes
to play games, but it is a time to
commemorate the sport players
that have played during each
season.

Pep rally has always
been a tradition at GSIS.
SCA President Seungjun
Juyeon Kim, 12
Lee commented, “Pep
rallies are meaningful
events, since it brings
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all
four
grades of
upper secondary together to
celebrate the achievement
of our student athletes and
team’s accomplishment as one. It
also serves as a bonding time for the student body. While pep rallies are in place
for mainly the student athletes, we also
get to recognize some of our amazing
students that got to accomplish great
things throughout the semester. When I
was in ninth grade I always appreciated
the great things other students are doing
for the school. The games SCA provides
for the students serves as an enjoyment
for the student body and I think it’s a
great tradition.”

Before the pep rally takes place it is
heralded by Spirit Week. The Spirit Week
has both students and teachers dressing
up according to certain interesting and
creative themes, such as Fashion Disaster
Day.

On the topic of creating various
Spirit Week themes, SCA Vice President
Juyeon Kim said, “SCA comes up with
spirit days by just putting out ideas
that might seem enjoyable to

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dress
up for. The
categories might include certain
events, colors, fictional characters, and
etcetera. From there we choose the
ones that seem like the student body
will enjoy participating in, be realistic, or
be something that everyone has in their
closet.”

She also added, “However SCA is
always open to new ideas!”

Spirit Week is not only in place for
having fun and help lead up to the pep
rally, but it also helps form unity among
students. “I think Spirit Week promotes
unity in the ironic sense that not a lot
of people participate. The ones that
actually do feel “special” like we have an
inside joke to ourselves,” commented
Juyeon, “We try to encourage EVERYONE to participate.”

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