Basically, sorority and fraternity's pair up in single pairs, and build house decks. They spend about 8 weeks on them, and you basically create a huge piece of art in the fraternity's front yard. I shall now show you a picture for reference.
Yep, behind that is the fraternity house. And thats only half of it! When Sarah and I were in school, we had to contribute to these house decks by pomping. Pomping is the art of sticking tissue paper into chicken wire. Yes, you read me correctly, all of that up there is tissue paper in chicken wire. Awesome!
So I cannot wait until tomorrow because I no longer have to spend 15 hours a week putting tissue paper into chicken wire, I just get to go and look! You really appreciate the effort though!
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| Looking at this picture, I realize my hair makes me look fat |
Of course there are other competitions too, oh I didn't mention this was a competiton? Yep, all these house decks are competing against each other. So there are other things like a flag football tournament and a sign competition. Also, I should mention Thursday night, the day before the judges come around at 5pm on Friday, is called All-Night Pomp. Literally all the women and men stay up all night long to finish their decks. They aren't allowed to hang any of the pomp until 5pm on Thursday. I say this so you know why I look totally gross in these pictures.
Also, you can watch a live feed of the construction going up if you want. Just go to this website!
As you can see, I love Homecoming! It's definitely so much fun!! Does your school have any Homecoming traditions?
Alyssa
5 comments:
this is so cool! My hubby went to Baylor and they do HUGEEE floats for homecoming, similar to these walk arounds. I went to Texas A&M and we never had homecoming! visiting from #embracethecamera
oh the fun of frat/sorority "pomping" for homecoming floats...we were sticklers about it in college, too and always loved the end result. i was homecoming chair the year we won oveall--WOOP WOOP!! hahaha
such fun times...ok now i might cry just thinking about how much i love college ;)
Wow, those are so cool! Sounds like a lot of fun!
goodness. you just reminded me how old i am!
:)
These are SO cool! It was Homecoming Week when I visited last year and I couldn't believe how big these displays were! Walkarounds is definiely a very cool tradition. Hope you enjoyed your Homecoming weekend!
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