Banquet Time

When I was in high school, one of my favorite FFA events all year was our FFA Banquet. We would spend two weeks practicing our parts and getting them right. Between the delicious food, the gathering of familiar faces, and the excitement of awards, it's hard to not miss those exciting times.

Boys and their arrangements!!!

Well, this week I got to experience my first banquet as an Advisor. And OH MY, it was a busy week.

One of our arrangements

This week in class, Mr. Boyer took over to cover some basics in floriculture. We both worked with the students as he taught them them basics of putting together our beautiful arrangements and some of the different styles of arrangements that you could find at a flower shop. While it was very hectic at times putting everything together, the students had a lot of fun doing it, and
they turned out some great arrangements.

In shop, I also got to observe, as Mr. Heyler took over to cover some of the more intricate details of building construction, and now, the students are full steam ahead for designing and beginning the building process of their mini-barns (20x30 inches to be exact). It pretty crazy, but, I think I am more excited to see the finished products than they are.

But, back to the hectic week. It seemed like Monday-Thursday rolled by, everyday at lunch time the officers would come down to the ag room, and practice their opening and closing ceremonies, and would try and to memorize and perfect it as much as possible.

When Thursday night did finally roll around, all those old feelings started coming right back. The delicious meal, gathering of the families and students, and an excitement for the upcoming award ceremony. And hats off to the officers they did a great job with their opening ceremonies.

Officers during opening ceremonies

The rest of the program went off without a hitch!!! They even surprised me, by giving me my own honorary chapter degree, and they gave me a personalized wooden name tag to put at the front of the room. But that evening wasn't about me, it was about the incredible students and how awesome they did.

Now that the excitement of Banquet is over, its time to move on to the excitement of SLLC, and the excitement of me going back to full time teaching next week. Here we come animal science!!!!!!

As you can tell, Tyler was super excited!!!