Taibah International School has never missed hosting its annual junior prom party, a celebration to set off the senior four and year 11 classes of the school. This year ‘s junior prom was held on 31 May 2024.
The preparations for the junior prom began as early as the second last week of March. Thanks to the dedication of the class teachers and passionate students eager to celebrate their first prom. Meetings are held after classes to allocate different jobs to the students like head of hair, makeup, head of decorations, head of cake and food and many others. The unfortunate part is the students were released for their first term holiday as soon as April came rolling in, but as international students, this was seen as a blessing, not because the students could work from the comfort of their homes whilst sharing numbers and engaging in active research with unlimited time of the holiday.
Themes were locked for two venues which were ‘HOLLYWOOD GLAMOUR’ for the red carpet, to have the met gala experience, experimenting with all different kinds of aesthetics, ‘A CARRIBEAN NIGHT IN LAS VEGAS’ For dinner my students could go well with all different kinds of outfits. The students of the prom committee get firsthand experience in dealing with the real world. Learned how to manoeuvre around it to get exactly what they wanted and that’s how the junior prom came to life.
Coming back to school, the committee began to bring the prom party from ideas to reality making phone calls and taking charge of duties they knew they were responsible for and everything was smooth until the faithful day when everything was perfect.
Rising early to oversee the final touches, everyone was feeling the jitters of the day as I went by. Finally, the celebration began coordinating the boys and girls in their respective dormitories on the UNEB campus, beautiful colours, and tangled in a variety of fabrics, sewn into the finest suits and gorgeous count set their moment on the red carpet capturing the attention of the ever-curious students of Taibah. The rest of the day was for shedding off stress and having fun experiencing what may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for some as the hours passed by and the cake was finally cut, many can agree the 2024 Taibah Junior prom was one to remember.
By Ssali Beata
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