The deep, dark, underground of Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School holds many exciting surprises, but one of the best yet is its annual Underground Halloween Party. This year’s party will make its debut Oct. 25, throughout BBHHS’s basement, from approximately 2:50-3:30 p.m.
Students can look forward to face and pumpkin painting, Just Dance, tattoos, chocolate, and other food. While each club will be offering different things, students from all clubs can come together and try new things that are being offered.
Such an event has been a way in past years to bring students with varying interests together in order to create an exciting environment to celebrate Halloween.
“This is one of the favorite events of the year,” says German teacher and club adviser, Peggy Burling. “Although Halloween is not widely celebrated in Europe, it is great to see close to 100 students socializing, dancing, and participating in activities such as face painting and mummy bowling.”
The Underground Halloween Party consists of activities from each of the Art, German, Spanish, and French Clubs, and has been brought together by each of their advisers and their club officers.
“It’s [the Underground Halloween Party] super fun, and it’s a way that the world language clubs, and art club come together to have our own little shindig downstairs,” says Art Club adviser, Andy Hansen.
The club advisers describe the lead up to the event as something casual, planning in between class periods, and on their own with trusted students from each club, otherwise known as the officers.
“Me and the other officers got together at a meeting, and planned what activities we’re going to do, what decorations we need, what snacks we are providing, and we tried to figure out the cost for it,” says French Club President, Gabby Caputo.
Second-year French teacher at BBHHS, and first-year French Club adviser, Liliana McElhaney is especially excited for this event as it is all new to her.
“This is very new to me, this is the first year so, I’m still learning from the other advisers, but every club is going to bring something new to the party. For us [French Club], we planned with our officers, and we came up with an agenda, what activities we’re going to have them do, what we decorate,” says McElhaney.
Junior, and fourth year German student, Liz FitzSimmons describes some of these activities and mentions her favorite to be playing Just Dance with her friends.
“It’s interesting for students to go from room to room,” says McElhaney. “Sample a little bit of Francais, and then our French students will sample a little bit of German, and a bit of Spanish.”
Hansen continues that people can see “the kids come in and out of the classroom just laughing and smiling, and they have their own little packs that trudge along and go from Spanish Club, to German Club, to Art Club, and then you see them all having fun in spaces that they usually don’t have fun in.”
