Movies and How They Influenced My High School Experience

First off, I don't know about you all, but I did not go to school with John Travolta, Zac Efron, Cory Monteith, or Yani Gellman.

There also were no spontaneous musical performances... 

Movies like Grease, Grease 2, High School Musical, The Lizzie McGuire Movie - and then there's Glee, of course - shaped the way I viewed high school, until I was there. 

How do I even begin to compare Paris High School to those schools that got my hopes up like that?! 

By now, most of you know that I love music. You would probably have also guessed that I appreciate attractive men! To be fair, there was some cute boys at my school, but really, how do you even say a guy remotely resembles attraction when compared to JOHN FREAKING TRAVOLTA?! 

Now, also, being honest, girls from my school, like Rizzo, had their share of scares and some even got pregnant. 

But we did not have a shop class for people to sing Greased Lightning. 

We did not have guy athletes like Try Bolton or Finn Hudson who secretly wanted to be singers.

There really wasn't a Michelle Pfeiffer to belt about the guy she wanted... unless you count me.

We did not have a cafeteria that was outside and our bleachers were far too far away to even try to sing Summer Nights, and that would only be if we had a strong male to sing lead. 

I did not find myself to be the doppelgänger of a pop star nor did I become famous like Lizzie McGuire. 

There was no huge group number at the end of every school year. 

Really. When I think about what these movies skewed my expectations for high school, my experience was what most people would describe as uneventful.

Still, these movies and Glee did make me appreciate my education and musical experience that lacked the spontaneous daily musical number.

I know it is a bit random, but I thought I needed to share what made my high school experience special:

My dad was the band director and my mom was the principal. So I guess, I could be compared to Troy in HSM because his dad was the basketball coach... I think...

The band did take a trip to Rome and although I did not find my doppelganger, I had an amazing time getting to know the city, visiting the coliseum, and the arch.

We may not have had a shop class where we could sing Greased Lightning, but in our senior play, I was an Austrian masseuse, so I got to speak with an accent.

I was in the school's choir, the Parisionaires. We may not have danced along with the words or performed spontaneously, but we sang together and we were awesome, if I do say so myself.  

Overall, I wouldn't call my high school experience magical, but it sure was something.