Spanish Club is the perfect place for students who have a love of Latin cultures and enjoy having fun.
In its second year here at LHS, Spanish Club has expanded quite a bit, but still has more room to grow.
“We are planning on having fiestas and we’re going to do fundraisers this year,” president of Spanish Club junior Sydney Scholes said.
There are a lot of big plans for Spanish Club, like a fundraiser selling lollipops and donating the money earned.
“Our charity is going to be collecting socks for the closet at school,” Spanish Teacher Astrid Ruiz said.
Many trips have also been planned for this year.
“We plan on going to some festivals like an ethnic food festival,” Scholes said.
While the club plans on attending cultural festivals, there are also plans to visit a local and popular sport amongst Latin cultures.
“We are trying to go to a Sporting Kansas City game,” Ruiz said.
The club meets every other Friday on the first and third weeks of the month in room 406. New members are welcome to join each week.
“I just joined this year,” senior Sadie Jess said. “I am really excited to learn more about the Spanish and Latin cultures. I am really excited for the celebrations, especially Day of the Dead.”
Among some of the Latin and Spanish holidays, the club will be recognizing is Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead. Day of the Dead is a very large celebration in Mexico. It begins on Halloween every year, Spanish Club and Spanish classes usually have fiestas or parties to celebrate the holiday and this year will be no different.
“It used to be a pagan holiday that the Catholic church tried to abolish, but they were unable to, so that’s why there is All Saints Day the next day,” Ruiz said. “It celebrates the spirits of the dark, that come to visit the earth that day, the tradition has changed with time, its now a celebration of loved ones who have died and their families go to the cemetery to celebrate them. In Mexico, they celebrate by giving sugar skulls and special candy.
“We are going to either decorate sugar skulls or exchange candy [in Spanish club],” Ruiz said.
The Spanish Club will also be discussing about the trip to Spain and Morocco some of the students will be going on. The trip will be next June and the students going on the trip will spend eight days travelling around Spain and take a day trip to Morocco in Africa. As of now, eight students are going on the trip to Spain.
“We are talking a lot about the upcoming trip to Spain and that is something I’m looking forward to, though as of right now, I don’t think I am [going on the Spain trip],” sophomore Morgan Benton said.
Be sure to stop by Senora Ruiz’s room during a meeting and join in the fun!