Post-Its in the Office and Weird High School Activities - Kendra's Office Blog

Happy Tuesday Patreons!

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. Or should I say the Sticky Notes in the office.

 Last week Alejandro told you that if you left a comment on his blog post that day, he would put it on a sticky note and hide it in the office. I was actually sick last week, and worked from home half of Tuesday-Friday. So Imagine my surprise when I see that there are 99+ Patreon notifications! Luckily, my Fiancé is a Patreon and warned me to not look at the comments. (Because Patreon can show you the comments in a different section than the post, so I wouldn’t have seen the Blog Post right away with the warning at the top). He stayed true to his word though, and there are sticky notes in all kinds of places. 

Here are the ones I have found so far:

This week in the office we are getting ready to go through a lot of things Jesse has to get ready for a big Twitch give-away. We have to sit down and go through everything that we have to see what Jesse wants to give away, and how many items in total we have to give away. That stream should be happening soon once we get everything organized! 

We are also going to be filming a fun little Cyber Punk themed video, thanks to a package they sent Jesse. That video will be Patreon exclusive!

Alejandro is working hard on the Fan Friday: Valentines Jesse Cooks, so that should be out soon as well!

Last week, we were talking about how in High School we had a school News that was played on the School TVs. My school’s News was filmed by the AV/Film class in the morning. We were then forced to watch in during Homeroom. Not every school does this, and the ones that do all have their own way of doing it. WELL. My school also had a separate television program that aired once a year for about a month, right before Prom. Students have to audition, and be interviewed, and it’s a whole big thing. That show? Survivor. My high school literally did, and to this day still does, a High School version of Survivor that it films and shows to the entire school. Not only did I watch it in Homeroom, but I participated in it in my Junior year. When I told the guys last week they said I should share this in my next blog, so here it goes!

Now, before I get into it I do want to say that the teachers that organize this event are honestly the best. They all care about their students' success, and they make learning fun. Genuinely some of the best teachers I’ve known.

Also I am going to share some photos of me in peak nerdy teenage years. You’re welcome.

This was all back in like 2011/2012. I'm not sure how they do the program now, I'm sure there are different rules and regulations 11 years later. 

That being said, this is one of the craziest life experiences I have ever had. To get into the Survivor program you have to audition. They give you 3-4 options of categories of characters to dress up as on your audition day, and you have to wear it at school the entire day.  I dressed up as DC’s Hawk Girl. I made a paper-mache helmet and everything. I do have a white tank top on that you can't really see because I was that pale. Yes they let me bring my duct tape mace to school back then. Shout out to my mom for finding this photo:

Now, when you dress up there are supposed to be like a group of you who all interview on the same day so that at least you aren’t the only person dressed up that day. WELL. I mixed up my days. I wore it on the wrong day, when no one else dressed up. I truly think that this is why I ended up being picked for Survivor. I think they felt bad tat I wore this costume to school on the wrong day. Whatever the reason was, I was in! 

So how does this whole thing work?

Once you are picked they send a permission slip to your parents for them to sign, and it says all of the things that could potentially happen during Survivor. It is a 2 day, 1 night adventure. I believe it usually happens over the weekend of Good Friday since we would have that Friday off. On that Friday you show up, they take some photos, take any cell phones, and separate everyone into teams. From there they take the teams to the “base camps”  which for us were the outdoor racquetball courts made of concrete. They did have ceilings and doors at least. We only had our sleeping gear, and each other to talk to in the camps.

Here is the photo they took of me before the event. Full of optimism and excitement. I really had no idea what it was going to be like.

I’m not going to tell you about every single task we had to do, but if you’ve ever seen the show Survivor it’s essentially that. If you are unfamiliar with the show, Survivor is pretty well known for making people eat weird things, like bugs. This was no different.

Check out these Cockroach Cocktail Weenies that were really eaten by students. Obviously they were safe to eat (no kids were ever put in harm during this) but it was not something anyone wanted to do.

I had the displeasure of eating Hot Dog Food on a Hot Dog bun as a part of this challenge. To this day if I eat bread of a certain gooey texture I want to hurl.

One of the other big challenges was playing Jenga on a ladder, at roughly around midnight. If the Jenga tower falls down while you are climbing up or down, or when taking a piece out, your team loses. They specifically play this one so late into the night so everyone is tired and cranky. It can seriously go on for hours. 

There were all sorts of tasks like relay races, team puzzles, being the first to put on a completely frozen T shirt, etc. After each task, the losing team would really vote someone out. We had torches and everything. I was voted out around 11pm on Friday night. Only like one person on the team knew my name, so 90% of them wrote “Pikachu” and “yellow hair” on their voting cards. 

This is me Naruto running DURING a racing challenge. Because I was just SO COOL.

It was too late for them to call my parents to pick me up when I was voted out, so I had to sleep on the floor of my math teacher's classroom, watching a Disney VHS with my sleeping bag until the next morning.

This entire time the AV students are filming what is going on. They then edit together little episodes, and show them to the entire school once or twice a week on the classroom TVs. When they get to the final episode all of the contestants would do a Tell ALL episode live in the school amphitheater at lunch to ask questions and reveal who the winner of that year's Survivor was. It was absolutely wild. The winner my year won $200.

I hope if you stuck around this long you were entertained by this. It’s one of my favorite High School memories and I think it’s absolutely incredible that they let students do this. 

Did you guys have any weird/unique things your high school did?