SPIRIT
As convention drew nearer, so did
my hope of being able to pack all the
spirit supplies. Unlike the year before,
the TN delegation took a plane to
reach the destination of Fargo, North
Dakota. With the help of the amazing
TJCL Parliamentarian, Yashu Tang,
spirit supplies were created in a
timely manner and stuffed into a very
large suitcase weighing 47 pounds.
The rest of the supplies were shipped
in a very, very large box. And with
that, we were off to the land of bison
and grass.
As usual, State T-shirt day came
first, and the delegation repped their
yellow bee shirts, a nod to this year’s
theme (Apes non sunt solitaria
natura). We started off strong,
everyone yelling their hearts out in an
attempt to show their love for the
JCL. The next day was, Planet of the
Apes, my personal favorite day, and
the TJCLer’s were dressed in bee
wings which Yashu and I spent
HOURS making. The rest of the week
went on as planned, and many
newbies became accustomed to spirit
at national convention. “It was fun,
but scary at first,” Hume-Fogg’s
Isabel Sullivan recalls.
On the final day, A Day in Old
Rome: It’s Neptune’s World, we
marched off to the critically
acclaimed F A R G O D O M E,
wearing our Togas and leis while
holding hand-made tridents and
screaming at the top of our lungs. “B-
E-E-W-O-R-L-D”
the
delegation
chants and during spirit awards we
claim our glory as #1 Spirit in small
delegations. I am so incredibly proud
of Tennessee for making this dream a
reality, and for everyone’s enthusiasm
(especially our fearless spirit queen,
Caradine Walker). The TJCL truly
spread the JCLove at nats, and we
can’t wait to show up and show out
next year in V-A-V-A!! If you know,
you know and if you don’t know,
come join TJCL at Nats in summer
2020!
by Georgia Fleming
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