El Cheapo

El Cheapo

by Maddy Garrett

Reporter, Flyer Flash

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What  a night! Our Exec Council never disappoints! All their hard work is always greatly appreciated and everyone always goes home from the dances satisfied with the presentations they put on.

El Cheapo: sounds pretty weird, but it is really unique in how the whole thing works.

If a person gets asked, then they have to pay and plan the entire date. So, because no one wants to do that, everyone tries to ask someone before they get asked themselves.

It is really pretty funny how creative people get. And when I say creative, that means cheaply creative, hence the “cheap” part.

Sometimes people just scribble, “El Cheapo?” with their name on a piece of paper and have someone run it to the person they are asking. Other times people get really crazy on asking like they would in a more formal dance, but that doesn’t happen as often.

El Cheapo is completely different than any other dance of the entire year. Anyone can ask, boy or girl, and students keep everything really inexpensive and easy.

The awesome theme this year was “Jump” but in an exciting 80s rockin’ way.

Students traditionally went to the D.I. to look for clothes from back in the day. Baggy, pegged, and bright colored pants were generally what many of the students found, along with long sweaters or blazers, and lots of big hair, glasses, and bangles.

Everyone seemed to really enjoy dressing up and looked completely like they were from the 80s.

Originally, the dance was supposed to be held at Anti-Gravity in Green Valley, but due to complications, plans changed and we were forced into having the dance in the small gym instead.

Still, everything turned out to be extremely fun for each individual.

“It was so much fun to dress up with my date and the rest of the school; we went completely crazy!” said Sarah Pyper, senior.

As hot as it was in there, the atmosphere was really fun. There were posters of idols like Michael Jackson and pictures of rubik’s cubes all over the walls and crazy music that played all night long.

It’s great when everyone goes all out while dancing and dressing up for dances like this; there seems to be a better mood throughout the room and it creates way more fun than being shy and awkward.

Lots of better memories happen that way. Hopefully if not everyone came to El Cheapo, they will come to our very last dance of the year, D-Day. Come on guys, last one; this is bound to be the best of the best! Even if you don’t have a date, just grab a couple friends and get on over there, you’ll regret it if you don’t!!