Shark Attack is Finally Back!

Jane Jung

“We wanted to have a beach theme party, and we tried to bring in a little more ‘crazy’—sharks seemed to fit into the equation,” explained Peter Lee (12), StuCo’s Public Relations, about StuCo’s first event called ‘Welcome Back, Shark Attack.’

This event was held on campus on Friday evening, 4^th September 2015. At 6:15p.m., 103 high school students gathered in the lower campus’ amphitheater to start the event. They were then separated into 12 teams, with 8 to 10 students on each team; the team namers were as follows: J Puffs, The Nae Nae’s, Crimson Tide, Bing Bong, Team 6, Ultimate Fried Rice, Pooper Scoopers, Team 9, Dongs, Team 11, Jarrod’s Junior, and Shaion is cool. Each team was assigned to different areas, including Upper Field, the gym, and the outdoor basketball court.

At Upper Field, four teams played waterslide kickball, in which students aimed for high scores by running around water and soap covered tarps to kiddie pool bases.

“Even though the bases were dirty and wet, we all had lots of fun watching others slip and fall,” stated Yeorin Yun (11).

At the gym, four other teams played shark-and-dolphin dodgeball games. The game was called ‘shark-and dolphin’ because each team had a ‘shark’ who could run outside of his or her team’s boundaries and hit the opponents, and the ‘dolphin’ could save hit players by touching them.

At the outdoor basketball court, four other teams played American football with water balloons. The goal of the game was to have students get a touchdown by passing or running a water balloon without it breaking.

When the games were over, the teams rotated until each station was completed. The winner of the game was announced at the end of the day, with J Puffs, a group of 10 seniors, winning 1^st place and the Pooper Scoopers, a group of 10 seniors and juniors, winning 2^nd place. The prize for the 1^st place team was a RM5 StuCo coupon for each teammate, while the prize for the 2^nd place was a RM3 StuCo coupon for each teammate.

After the games, at around 8p.m., all players gathered at the amphitheater to watch the movie Soul Surfer. While watching this, students munched on pizza, hotdogs, baked cookies, Shark Attack popsicles, marshmallows, and drinks. Students were free to watch the movie or hang out on the campus until 10p.m..