Here we are, the start of School Spirit’s eighth year. Thank you again to everyone who’s read School Spirit through once or thrice over the years, and everyone who contributed to last week’s Birthday Week with reader art. Back into School Spirit strips once again.
Going to be trying a few different, minor things from here on, some you might notice, many you hopefully won’t! For one point, I think this is the first time any of the kids have actually interacted with a parent figure, although Miss Conway may have been seen talking to Cody’s mum on the phone once. You lot could probably confirm that or not. I still don’t have plans to actually ‘show’ any parents in the strip, but maybe just calling back to them is okay for now.
This storyline is one that only came to me suddenly after watching kids play netball in the rain. Some kids just refuse to be cold, or wear long pants, or register rain, etc. Like Casper here. I tried to show him cold and scrawny and all ribs in that second panel, but it didn’t quite come off. I’m sure a lot of you people have stories or pictures of kids running madly through the rain or wearing summer clothing in the middle of snow, etc, haven’t you?
Share some pictures or stories!
Kids don’t feel cold on their legs; just an odd fact. So long as their head and hands are kept warm, there really is little need for much else in anything but the coldest of conditions.
Besides, no one’s ever caught cold, influenza or pneumonia from being cold. This is a fact.
Just don’t let any of those facts get in the way of this storyline! :P But no, they do (many of them) seem blissfully unaffected by the cold, don’t they? No one’s ever caught a hot either, come to think of it.
In one strip, Cody phones his mum:
http://www.schoolspiritcomic.com/2008/02/26/fire-5/
The strip where Miss Conway is talking to Cody’s mum on the phone is probably this one:
http://www.schoolspiritcomic.com/2008/10/21/swimming-3/
And Casper, you can’t truly be freezing till you’re standing outside in snow. :P
Heck, I had a friend who used to go to school wearing thin deck shoes, no socks, all winter. That this is a Canadian winter, with snow up to your McGuffins. It was hard to get me to wear socks, too, even in the winter.
See, you’re all just proving the point of this storyline! :)
in NZ I didn’t have much choice but to wear shorts in winter till to school till 5th Form (16 for me but most of my classmate 15) cause that was the school uniform
Ah. So you’re a kiwi? I’m closing in on your location now, aren’t I?
A Kiwi-Yank, i gre up in NZ from 8 till 25 i’m in Floria nowadays