Christmas Cookies are Weapons
by Caylee Lamb
Announcements for NorthStar’s annual Christmas celebration first went out on December 19. The celebration began December 23 and lasted through January 5. The social gathering was buzzing with many chats from all grade levels, celebrating Christmas all around the world.
Riley Nielson, the Student Council Special Projects Coordinator, is the first SPC to work on the new Teams set up with these types of events. He says it’s a matter of having the IT team create a new team for it, setting up some basic channels, and then making a poster for advertising the celebration. Some basic channels within the Team included General, Christmas Campaign, and Christmas Dance Floor.
No NSA celebration is complete without an exceptionally entertaining food fight. This year, the food fight channel was so cleverly named “Christmas Cookies are Weapons.” At first, I walked into the food fight channel without a second thought. I ate a cookie while looking around suspiciously as other students generated force-fields and started throwing around four-thousand cookies. I quickly realized that perhaps I did not want to start out in the food fight channel and made my way to the dance floor.
Once I got to the Christmas Dance Floor, I brought a chair to the already set up table in the corner and sipped on some delicious hot cocoa. By then, it was already December 24, so I wished everyone a Merry Christmas Eve. After Christmas, several students shared what they had gotten for Christmas which included a camera, books, a journal, and a guitar. By the time the New Year rolled around, students had wished others a Happy New Year.
Meanwhile, in the fantastic food fight channel, old moldy mashed potatoes from Thanksgiving were thrown, trash can lids were used as the perfect shields, and marshmallow guns were fired almost constantly. A couple of students built a fort complete with a catapult and a flag. Those on the opposite side of the food fight built their fort with pie tins. Some of my personal favorite food fight items included the zucchini brownie cannon, candy cane launcher, the forever popular watermelon helmet, gravy gun, miniature cheesecake rockets, and exploding cinnamon Christmas cookies.
As the Christmas season comes to an end, I hope you will join us next year as we celebrate Christmas and have an amazing Christmas-themed food fight. I hope your holidays were filled with love from family and friends. Happy New Year everyone!
Caylee Lamb, a 10th grade student, has been at NorthStar for over a year. She is a part of the Prayer Warriors' team at NSA, and participates in acting and drama in her free time. Although she enjoys writing for the Navigator, she hopes to find a career in the field of science one day.