Practice Makes Perfect Bachelorette

Andrew Kim

Sacrificing their holiday for the National Honor Society (NHS), its members assembled on March 6^th to practice. The plan was easy. Welcome guests, throw a skit, and eat food. “Easy.”

Easy was accurate until a piece of the layout stuck out like a sore thumb. They had a skit to perform. They had two hours for a 10 minute act. Filling that time with awkward pausing, bursts of laughter, and much roasting, the characters suited up for the worst possible season of The Bachelorette.

The Bachelorette practice session began when Doug Yost, the head of the program, demanded, “Tell me your plan.” His reply was full on laughter—filled with the painful realization, this is actually happening. Mersades Zimmer (12), also known as “O Wise Mersades,” produced a plan that left the group stunned. Their blank expression was almost audible: I didn’t know that...

After learning the layout, the skit began. “Welcome to The Bachelorette: NHS Edition.” The choice theme for the induction ceremony was well known but not so well prepared.  Our contestants for our dear single lady, Christy Chow (12), consisted of such seniors: Donald Trump (Jarrod Chang), Kanye West (Joseph Hsu), Najib (Ning Kang Chia), Bruce Lee (Keito Watanabe), Stephen Hawking (Andrew Kim), and Justin Bieber (Emmett Balzer). Who would put a ring on it?

After a hopeless question filled inspection on the potential candidate’s NHS qualities—academics, service, character, and leadership—by the bachelorette’s stern friend, Zimmer, the bachelorette was ready to choose. Actually, she was all ready to choose from the beginning; in an interview afterward, Miss Chow secretly announced, “I like Trump’s hair.”

But the contestants, the audience—and Chow—did not know it would be Najib who won by “[getting] rid of everyone,” as Zimmer summarized.  

 Exaggerated stereotypes pushed The Bachelorette’s advisor off the edge while the announcer, Joe Brake(12), was ecstatic—knowing that this “craziness,” as he put it, got more viewers.

This action packed, lights out, silly, and dramatic production by Dalat’s National Honor Society showed for the first (and probably last) time on the 7^th of March. It was proceeded by the induction of new members.   

It was a show many fell in love with. Hopefully, Chow will also fall in love with Najib.