Quad Day recap: Freshmen sprout wings and soar through unsteady winds

The Class of 2020 performed their first ever quad day on Sept. 27, themed after the Disney movie “A Bug's Life.”

“It was such a great experience for our whole class to perform,” Sonali Shanbhag said. “Overall I think our class had a few obstacles but our performance turned out pretty great.”

The Quad Day featured a 20-minute skit with five different dances between different scenes in the script, including the partner dance, girls dance, boys dance, Bollywood and the finale.

As usual with freshmen, they ran into a couple of issues.

“Our performance didn't exactly turn out the way we wanted it to,” Vivian Lin said. “One obstacle we had was the fact that the microphone kept cutting our skit people off, but they were able to work around it and adjust to it.

Despite the microphone issues that they struggled with, the freshmen displayed their ability to adapt to the situation at hand through the creation of their skit and dances.

"We had to cut some dances because some people haven't even had their first practice, and it was already one week before our quad day,” Lin said. “But because everyone told us to keep the boys dance, they choreographed their entire dance the night before performance day.”

The skit starred Sarah Tucker as Filk, Sarah Smails as Princess Dot, Alena Jarret as Princess Atta, Drew Torrens as Heimlich, Timothy Yoon as Dim, Tyler Ouchida as P.T. Flea, Prosper Chiu as Molt, Brian Zhu as Hopper, Gordon Schwabe as Francis, Sonali Shanbhag as Rosie, Julia Hoffman as Gypsy, Justin Wong as Manny, Alex Hsieh as Tuck, Matthew Hsieh as Roll and Alex Talyor as Thumper.  

The skit showed similarities with the original movie “A Bug’s Life,” which advocated to prevent bullying as seen with the character Hopper, the main antagonist of the movie.

Even if the work they put into the skit was underappreciated due to microphone problems, the hard work the freshmen put into Homecoming could be seen during Quad Day, as well as the cafeteria decorations. Great bushels of leaves and grass can be seen among cute and colorful characters from “A Bug’s Life”

“Our decorations were pretty cool,” Lin said. “We had a great time at my house painting and cutting everything, and it was a great way to bond with each other.

Although the freshmen faced many problems before and during Homecoming week, they were able to still able to pull off a largely successful Quad Day in the end. They hope that overcoming these obstacles will allow them to produce even better Quad Days in the future.

“Decorations were fantastic, and we had a lot of great artists in our class come help,” Shanbhag said. “We are hoping that next year we pull of something even greater and get more people involved.”