By Taylor Monje-Rodriguez
Editor
After brainstorming with her friends on some ideas of how to ask her best friend to the Sadies Hawkins Dance, junior Ashley Aiono decided on a creative and different way, hoping to make it special.
Aiono made flyers saying, “Will you go to Sadies with Ashley?” and covered the entire 300-wing with them.
After, Aiono made a trip into her friend‘s classes, putting a decorated poster in each class leading up to the same question, “Will you go to Sadies with me?”
“I wanted to do something big for him, so that everyone could see that I was asking him to Sadies,” said Aiono.
Sadie Hawkins is a special dance where the tables are turned and girls are given the opportunity to ask a certain boy to be their date for the night. Many girls take this opportunity and decide the best way to take advantage of asking a boy to Sadies is by “going all out.”
“If it’s really someone special you want to ask, then most definitely go all out,” said Aiono. “That’s why I asked my best friend Geo, he means the world to me, so of course I wanted to ask him all cute and go all out.
“I think it’s different and special to ask in a creative way, because it says a lot about your personality and your unique ideas,” said freshman Melissa Pelayo.
Sophomore Summer Cantu and Pelayo had similar ideas on asking their dates to the dance.
“I made him his favorite cookies, chocolate chip, and I wrote on them ‘Sadies?’” said Cantu. “Then I just left them on his desk before class.”
Pelayo did something similar.
“I bought him a cookie cake that said ‘You, me, Sadies? Yes…no?’ and then I gave it to him at his locker,” said Pelayo.
Others decided that the best way to ask was to just keep it simple and not make it a big production out of it.
“I wasn’t planning on asking my best friend in a cute way,” said freshman Nicole Rivas. “We have been friends for a while so it wasn’t like I had to make it a big deal, so I just asked him.”
Then there were some girls who agreed that either way was just as good, as long as the question was asked.
Junior Alejandra Avina wants to ask her boyfriend by having her friend wear a shirt asking him to Sadies while in his dance class.
“I think it’s cute to ask in a creative way because then it’s sort of a special way to ask a guy,” said Avina, “But if you were to just ask that would be just as fine, as long as he says yes.”
And what do the boys have to say about all the different ways of being asked to Sadies?
Some think that it is always nice to get asked in a certain way because it is different than just getting asked like everyone else.
“I think it’s nice to get asked in a creative way because when it comes down to it, you will be asked in a special way that most likely hasn’t been done before,” said junior Geovani Arevalo. “I knew my best friend was going to ask me to Sadies, but I didn’t know she was going to in such a big way. I’m happy she did though.”
Others don’t care as long as they get asked. They do not need all the attention or have anything spectacular to feel special.
“I’m glad I was asked the way I was, because I love cookies, but even if a girl just asked me, I would’ve been just as happy,” said freshman Andrew Rodriguez, who is also the writer’s brother.
Whether the plan is to go all out and use a creative way to ask that one special boy, or just keeping it short and simple, now is the time to ask with only two weeks until the dance.
So I guess it’s my turn to ask.
Leonel Chevez, would you like to make me happy and be my date to Sadies?
