Last Fall Carnival.
Some Fall Carnivals were more memorable than others. I remember my first Fall Carnival: I was new to Oasis and had to explore the games by myself. Halfway through the night, a guy in my class (it was Mason, by the way) who was waiting in line behind me for the obstacle course started talking to me. After that, we hung out together for most of the night, and I left with lots of fun. Then there was a year I sang a High School Musical song for the talent show (didn't quite make it to the finals). Or the year my sister won a cake from the Fall Carnival, and our whole family ate cake for a week. Or the year one of the seniors grabbed one of my feet as I walked through the Spooky House and almost had a heart attack.
As for this year, I had a lot of mixed feelings. In some ways, it was a blast. The first hour I sold tickets with Soli, but we yelled and smiled and finally convincingly persuaded tons of people to buy tickets to the Spooky House. We may have exaggerated the awesomeness of the Spooky House a litttttttlllle bit, but hey, it's for a good cause. :-) The second hour, I acted as a guide for the "less spooky time". Unfortunately, I and the other scarers were apparently a little too scary, and some of the kids went running back to the entrance. The REAL fun happened when we advertised the "All-Out Scary Time", which was the last hour. We made high schoolers, middle schoolers, elementary kids, and even teachers scream their pants off. Apparently, there was even a elementary girl who just started peeing in her pants after she got out of the Spooky House (poor girl). I must say, one of the highlights of the Spooky House was the skeleton dressed up as Snow White. Believe me, it was freaky. Overall, it was just a great senior bonding time. We laughed at each other's attempts to scare the people and worked perfectly together inside the Spooky House.
The one big bummer was that I didn't get to play any of the other games. Most years I don't play that many games anyway, but it seemed sad that this was my last opportunity, and I didn't do anything besides the Spooky House. Another bummer was that I felt down thinking about saying goodbye to my senior friends and teachers. It doesn't feel like a lot of time has passed, but in reality, the first quarter is almost done. A fourth of the year is gone. I only have three-fourths of a year to enjoy all the wonderful people I have to leave next year. Especially since Fall Carnival usually marks one of the first main Oasis events, it is a little bit of a shocker that this event has already passed and gone. It just made me contemplate how much I will truly miss everyone. I just hope I do not regret anything this senior year and live every moment full to the brim with memories.
