True Blue

Sometimes amidst the hectic days in Homecoming week, you have to spend a few hours volunteering and playing at a giant slip and slide made of blue foam. You just have to forget your homework and all of the stress of the week and not care that you are dyed blue. Then, when it is all over, you just have to go to Costco and get pizza. You ignore people staring at you because you are still blue and laugh when adults and children alike ask you why. When you finally get home after volunteering for six hours, you let all of your stress, sadness, and anxiety that has been building up all week wash down the drain along with all of the blue. As it runs down, you feel lighter. You realize how wonderful your day was, and you feel ready to take on the rest of your crazy week. By nine o'clock you feel like it is eleven. It feels like you have been awake forever, but you are refreshed and could care less what time it is. You quickly get your homework done and have to smile. A wonderful day this has been.