Extreme Makeover: Yearbook Edition

In my 3rd year of Junior High I decided to join the yearbook committee. It was one of the best experiences of my life. There was an epic theme, cool pages most of my friends were on the committee and at the end of the year students and teachers alike could sign each others yearbooks and have unique memories that will last a life time. When I arrived in high school I was eager to join the yearbook committee. However, upon going to the information meeting I was met with a bleak realization; creativity was a crime in the eyes of the yearbook supervisor. The only speck of theme was our school colors (red and white), the pages were all the same format and the only difference were the sizes of the red boxes on the white page. We were told that to be on the committee all you needed to do was take the pictures your were told to take and put where you were told to out them. To top it off; you didn't receive your lovely yearbook until the next year. Now, I don't know about you, but signing the yearbook is at least half the fun and who knows where you're going to be next year. What if you move? What about the graduating class? What if you have all different friends? The yearbooks are sent to you if you move or graduate, but you still won't be able to have anyone sign it! The reasoning behind this is so that grad and prom and such would be able to be in the yearbook. Although  in my own opinion everyone is going to take their own pictures with only people they actually care about. All the awards and scholarships are usually in the yearbook also, but if you win one you'll be given either a plaque or a certificate in memorial and if you don't win one, you probably don't want to remember all the people that did instead of you.The principal at my school has been principalling for at least 10 years, the yearbook has been this way for about 40 years and she thinks it's not really a yearbook when it doesn't include the entire year. Another IB student (Emily)and I decided to challenge this way of thinking by taking on the yearbook our self. The supervisor for last year retired and now we have been given the go-ahead to take over completely. We're going to have to make a committee of course, but we now have a supervisor! It's Mr. Toms our math teacher. We'll still be the ones mainly in charge. So back to the issue of end dates and yearbook arrivals, Em and I have decided to do a survey. Which ever option wins (stay the same or June arrival) our principal has given us permission to go along with it. So, basically I am officially one of the Yearbook Committee Chief Editors and tomorrow Em and I are going to kick off with taking pictures of the last game of the season of our field hockey team! Ta ta for now