"First Day"

First thing about Holden that needs to be understood: "hilarity" is one of the features of the charter for the community. As such, you get holidays like "First Day".

To describe it, take a bit of Halloween, a pinch of Mardi Gras and a good amount of "anything goes". It's celebrated at the first day of school and considering this may be our "third" first day for Holden it made it all the more crazy. Folks were dressed up, bands were playing, people behaved in character and the kids took full advantage of it.

The bus drives up Chalet Hill about a block long, picks up the kids and it's a free for all. One chalet made themselves into white trash complete with appliances on the lawn and empty beer bottles while another stopped the bus with setting up a scene of "what happens when the kids are at school".

The teachers were on strike and protested the fact that we didn't want any more kids and nothing really went back to normal until noon.