September 13, 2021
VOL. MMXXI, No. 3
RAM’S EAR R I O V I S TA H I G H S C H O O L
Photo by: Jorie Forbes
Homecoming was not HORRORble
The senior class float and it’s incredibly detailed portrayal of “The Shining” movie impressed not only the judges, but the crowd as well.
Senior float outSHINES the rest
Roberto Rivera-Calvo. Junior homecoming nominees were Brianna Shafer, Adriana Hernandez, Ian Viera, and George Aguilar. Sophomore class nominees were Kaity Creed, Alondra Garcia, Matt Bodle, and Marco Carillo. Freshman nominees were Letty Bellante, Jade McQueen, Brandon Leyba, and Daniel Diaz. Once finished around the track, the candidates were introduced as they were called to the middle of the football field, and the winners were then announced. This year’s Homecoming King and Queen were seniors Samuel Lara and Jenna Holden “I felt a little weird that I was nominated ever. I feel like this was a really cool high school memory to end with,” said Jenna. “I felt really good about being nominated. I found out that I won while I was in the ER so it made me pretty happy when
I got out,” said Sam. The Homecoming Prince and Princess were sophomores Kaity Creed and Matt Bodle. This year the Homecoming dance was after the football game from 10 p.m. till midnight. Many students went straight to the dance after the game, and some went home to get ready. It was hosted at the high school in between the gym and weight room. The place was decorated with clowns, streamers, balloons, a snack table, and a photo booth area. After a time of having things shut down and not having the events we want, Homecoming was finally here. Having everything from the spirit week, rally, football game, Homecoming court, floats, and the dance, the students were very excited and happy to finally have their first or last homecoming again.
by Monica Garcia, Staff Writer
this year with their float theme “Carrie”. The class float had the prom setting as their float design where Carrie is being crowned prom queen and gets the bucket of pig’s blood dumped on her while everyone is laughing at her. Freshman Bell Teisseire who played the role of Carrie states, “I was very excited but very nervous once we started moving but it was a fun experience,” Morgan Arroyo played one of the classmates who dropped the blood on Carrie, and said, “I feel very proud because they say freshmen always get last but we got second and beat some of the upperclassmen.” The juniors placed third place with their float theme being “Children of the Corn.” Their float was decorated with haystacks, students in flannels covered in blood, and holding rakes. They also had a black background with the words “JR’s OF THE CORN.” The sophomore class with “The Purge” movie theme placed fourth. Their float was based on the third Purge movie, “The Purge: Election Year,” which is centered around American independence. The class had some of their classmates on the floats with Purge masks, girls in tutus with shirts with the words “Kiss Me,” boys with tuxedos of the American flag, and the background having the words “HELP ME.” The nominees for the Homecoming court from the senior class were Jenna Holden, Samuel Lara, Cecilia Perez, and
Photo by: Jorie Forbes
After a year of having everything shut down and not being able to have events, on September 17, Rio Vista High School hosted its first Homecoming since COVID-19. This all includes spirit week, a big rally, football game, Homecoming court, floats, and the big Homecoming dance. This year’s Homecoming theme was scary movies. September 13 through September 17 was spirit week. Each day had its own dress up day of scary movie themes. Monday was “Zombieland” dress like a cowboy/cowgirl. Tuesday was “The Shining,” which was twin with your friend. Wednesday was “Scream Queens,” wear something from your favorite college. Thursday was “Lights Out,” wear all black, and Friday was “Carrie,” which was to wear Rams spirit and school colors. The seniors got first place in dressing up the most during spirit week, juniors got second, freshman got third, and sophomores got fourth place. On Friday during school there was a rally to get everyone excited and ready for the Homecoming events happening that night. At 6 p.m., the varsity football team played against Esparto High School. Before the game, the Homecoming candidates and floats drove around the field. During halftime of the game, the floats and nominees went around the track again and after they announced the winners of the floats and courts. The seniors got first place with their float theme “The Shining.” They had a view of the hotel hallway on one side of the float, where Silvia and Susana Valencia Luna stood and played the twins in the movie. “I felt nervous because there were a lot of people who I didn’t know watching me,” stated Susana. “It was out of my comfort zone but it felt really cool doing it,” said Silvia. In the middle of the float there was a door which was broken, and William Lindsay who was playing the role of Jack Torrance was sticking his head out trying to get Wendy, played by Kayla Delk. William Lindsay states, “He was played by Jack Nicholson who is a very good actor, and the character he portrays is a psychopath, so I really had to get out of my comfort zone to get to play that role, but I think everyone performed really well and I am happy with the outcome and had lots of fun.” The freshman class placed second
Homecoming Royalty Queen Jenna Holden (right) and Princess Kaity Creed (left) after winning, meanwhile King (Samuel Lara) and Prince (Mathew Bodle) participated in the Homecoming Football game.
Brazilian exchange student looks forward to experiencing American high school by Diego Torres, Staff Writer
All the way from Curitiba, Brazil, Carmella traveled roughly 14 hours here to California and she will be here for the rest of the school year. Carmella is being hosted by Ben McFarlane, who graduated last year, and his family. The size and population of Curitiba compared to Rio Vista is much larger, so you can imagine how different Carmella sees Rio Vista to Curitiba. She also says the school life here in the states are very different compared to school in Brazil. “First of all, here in the states you have 4 classes while we have 6 classes a day 45 minutes each and they’re different classes everyday. We also have to wear uniforms to school and we don’t have a mascot and no school dances.” Carmella has also noticed that we have a huge variety of snacks and wants to try all different kinds of food. “Something I really liked that I tried was ranch dressing and I also tried In-N-Out for the first time and it was amazing,” she said. Carmella would also love to visit a
variety of places while in California, from nature to cities. Some things Carmella likes to do on her free time is listen to music, talk with her friends, go hiking, do some yoga, and she enjoys watching TV. Carmella is an only child and she lives with her mom and stepdad, and is also very close with her grandfather and has lunch with him every Sunday. Carmella plans on going to college but isn’t to sure yet what she would major in and also isn’t too sure what career she would like to chase. “One of the reasons I decided to become a foreign exchange student was to see other opportunities and have a better foundation to see what type of career path I would want to take, and see if I’d like to go to college here in the states or somewhere else,” Carmella explains. She is looking forward to meeting new people, having new experiences, seeing what California has to offer her, and is excited to be here at Rio Vista High School.