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25 December, 2015

13 Reasons Christmas Was Better When You Were In School

 

Sure, Christmas is still fun, but let’s face it…it was way better when you were back in school.


Nowadays you’re all too aware of the whole commercial aspect of it, and you begrudge having to pay extra for your normal coffee just because they’ve added a little cinnamon to it.
Instead you long to go back in time, back to the good old days when you were in school, and Christmas was the highlight of your entire year.

1. PAR-TAY
The end of term party was the social event of the entire academic year. You remember the sheer joy of walking into the classroom to see all the tables cleared out the way to make room for a makeshift dance floor so you could play musical statues whilst dancing to I Wish it Could be Christmas Every Day.
What do you have now? Leaving work early on Christmas Eve? Not good enough.
2. Christmas disco
If your school was a bit more festive then you were lucky because you got to revel in the delights of the Christmas disco. Typically this would take place between the hours of 5.30pm – 7.30pm and it would involve tinsel, mince pies and the PE teacher donning a Father Christmas outfit. Way better than the office Christmas do when someone always does something inappropriate and you end up with the hangover from hell.
3. Movie time
It would appear that your teachers had an unspoken rule that as soon as it hit December, there was no need for you to follow the curriculum. Instead, you were treated to frequent movie sessions.
Why learn about the Victorians, when you could watch Home Alone and learn how to effectively tackle a home invasion?
4. Party rings
All we’re saying is that when you were at school a packet of party rings was never far away. Now all you have to look forward to is some semi-stale mince pies at work that if you’re lucky a co-worker may save for you.
5. Sense of community
There was a real sense of everyone pulling together in order to make the most of all things festive, what with teachers decorating their classrooms, and encouraging pupils to bring in food for the end of year Christmas party. Now a Christmas card is all you can hope for.
6. Non-uniform day 
This day was your chance to show off the best outfit and the more Christmas themed it was, the better. Now you have to take part in the ritual humiliation that is Christmas jumper day at work, which brings unjustifiable levels of stress as you accept having to pay a lot of money for a jumper you look like an idiot in.
7. Father Christmas visit
Regardless of whether you still believed, or if your grumpy parents had broken the news to you, there was a special kind of magic in the assembly hall when Father  Christmas popped up. You still remember the anticipation of waiting in line, before you got your chance to try and convince him that you had been really good all year, and to ignore anything that your teacher said. Plus the toy was always semi-decent.

8. Making cards
No more homemade glittery creations for you. Now you just about remember to post ‘Merry Christmas’ on someone’s Facebook wall.
9. Nativity time!
The whole school would be gripped with excitement and suspense when the cast list for the annual Nativity play was announced. You dreamed of having a starring role, but instead your artistic capabilities were overlooked and you were allocated the role of a sheep. But it was still better than live tweeting your family Christmas Day argument, because that’s all the drama you get to experience now.
10. Winding down
There was none of this expectation to be grateful to your boss because they let you leave an hour early on Christmas Eve. Back in school you experienced the full meaning of winding down for the festive season by essentially switching off from December 1st, and then having a good few weeks off to stuff your face, and play with all your gifts.

11. Paper snowflakes
Gone are the days of spending a whole art lesson on figuring out how to make the most prettiest snowflake you could, and despite only cutting small shapes into a folded piece of paper you felt like Van Gogh when you stuck it to the window. The furthest you can go now is getting a USB Christmas Tree to pop on your desk.
12. Decorations
Come the first week of December your classroom looked like Santa’s workshop, with all the tinsel, fake snow, paper rings and Christmas trees. Now if you put anything Christmas related on your desk, you will be judged for being an eager beaver by colleagues. And some anti-Christmas grump will come over and ask you to remove it, because apparently your flashing fairy lights are a distraction.
13. Gifts
As a kid you received gifts that made you so excited you were sure that your head would explode, and you probably circled them in the Argos catalogue as a massive hint to your parents. These sorts of gifts included space hoppers, anything Power Rangers related and a new PS 1. Now what do you get? Tacky gift sets that you have no use for.


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