Without any breaks or days off this month, SDA has created other fun holidays to celebrate during school. Pie Day on March 14th and Manly Month of March are some of the offbeat holidays we celebrate here. But there is a whole world of weird and strange holidays in March. Holidays like Extraterrestrial Abduction Day, Waffle Day, Something on a Stick Day, Supreme Sacrifice Day, Learn About Butterflies Day and National Potato Chip Day. We asked SDA students which of these they’d most like to observe and how they would celebrate.
“I would want to celebrate Waffle Day because that sounds like the most fun. I would eat waffles to celebrate it!” –Senior Rachel Weinfield
“I would celebrate National Potato Chip Day because who doesn’t love potato chips! I would celebrate by eating potato chips of course!” –Senior Opal Theodossi
“I think I would celebrate Something on a Stick Day. I’ve never heard of that before and it sounds the most unique. I’m not sure how to celebrate that though.” –Senior Katie Guinn
“Something on a Stick Day would be pretty cool because it would be fun to see what people do. Someone could wear a shirt, of a shirt on a stick, to celebrate.”—Junior Alec Dervaes
“Something on a Stick Day should win because it’s cool. I’d put oranges and sandwiches on a skewer, and I’d walk around on stilts.”—Sophomore Zach Evans
“I would choose Something on a Stick Day because it would be interesting to see all the things that people would put on a stick. To celebrate it I would use sticks to eat my food, like chopsticks or something.” –Senior Alicia Wolfe
“Waffle Day because I love breakfast so why not breakfast all day long. To celebrate I would have a bunch of games for waffles. There would be a guy dressed like a waffle.” –Senior Lauren Fidel
“[I would celebrate] Waffle Day because you can make so many different types of waffles and they are delicious, and who wouldn’t want to celebrate waffles? I would make a bunch of waffles in cooking and see them to students without a bunch of options for toppings.” –Senior Julie Laifatt
“[I would celebrate] Something on a Stick Day! It sounds like a swell holiday!” –Senior Maddy Overlock
“I would celebrate Something on a Stick Day by jousting on stick horses and eat kebabs afterwards and make pinwheels.” –Senior Amber Michaelis
“I would like to celebrate Butterfly Day! I think they’re worth learning about because people don’t learn much about animals past elementary school, and even less about insects. It would be fun to return to that, and it should be celebrated by doing all the things we used to in elementary school! We could catch bugs and butterflies!” –Junior Naomi Sinclair
“I would prefer to celebrate Something on a Stick Day, for the creative options are endless : dress up in appropriately festive attire, host parties with themed meals/snacks/games. If I was in charge of school activities, I would also hold special events in their honor.” –Junior Brooke Mitchell
“Learn About Butterflies Day! Because monarchs are endangered and Encinitas could use some educatin’. I would talk people’s ears off about butterflies and visit quail gardens. And fly a butterfly-shaped kite.” –Senior Erin McGrath
“I would most like to celebrate Something on a Stick Day because I feel like restaurants would have good things to eat that day. I have no problem with National Potato Chip Day or Waffle Day, though. For Something on a Stick Day I would buy a bunch of popsicle sticks and I would basically make kebabs out of everything. For lunch I would have a sandwich on a stick and I would eat tangerines on a stick, too. I might even have steak on a stick for dinner.” –Sophomore Roya Chagnon
“I personally would like to celebrate National Potato Chip Day because it would allow us to honor potato chips and maybe even get some free samples. In honor of that day, we would all have to eat chips and just like on Christmas, we would all give our friends presents (our favorite kinds of chips).” –Sophomore Jorge Beltran
“[I would celebrate] WAFFLE DAY. I like waffles and breakfast foods. We would all eat waffles and decorate them while having a pajama party.” –Sophomore Hyla Schneir
“[I would celebrate] Supreme Sacrifice Day…it sounds intriguing. I suppose I would sacrifice a goat or a virgin or something along those lines.” –Sophomore Serena Saake
“I would probably celebrate Something on a Stick Day because everything tastes better on a stick and it’s more convenient. I would eat everything on a stick that day.” –Sophomore Kendra Brust
“Supreme Sacrifice Day seems fun, although a bit weird. The name seems the most interesting. I don’t know what I’d do that day, depends on what you were intending to sacrifice.” –Freshman Rachel Littlefield
“Supreme Sacrifice Day does not sound fun… Butterfly Day would be boring… Waffle Day would be tasty, but it’d make me fat. I don’t understand what you’d do on Extraterrestrial Abductions Day, and I don’t eat potato chips so I wouldn’t celebrate National Potato Chip Day. Something on a Stick Day sounds disturbing, but I want to see all the things you can do with a stick. I’d celebrate it by putting my food on a stick.” –Sophomore Lizzy Knox
“I would celebrate Learn About Butterflies Day. They’re pretty, but no one knows about them. I would celebrate by taking a day off school to go to a butterfly farm.” –Junior Maggie Smith
“I am debating between Waffle day and Something on a Stick Day. I’ll go with Waffle Day. It sounds really good and everyone can make waffles. We could have a contest to see who makes the best waffles.” –Senior Anna Smith
“I like Waffle Day. I love waffles, so I would enjoy a whole day dedicated to my favorite breakfast. I would have my sister make me waffles because she likes making them. Then, I would invite my friend Anna over to eat waffles.” –Senior Ana Coen
“I would celebrate Waffle Day because waffles are basically my favorite food. I would have it with an apple compote.” –Junior Marc Bahbahani
“I would want to celebrate Something on a Stick Day by eating everything on a stick. If I had a deep fryer I would also deep fry everything.”—Junior Grant Haack
“I would celebrate Supreme Sacrifice Day by going to Vons, buying a four pound turkey, stabbing it, and saying ‘I offer this already dead turkey as a sacrifice.’”—Senior Brenton Scher
“I would celebrate National Potato Chip Day. I would buy a bunch of potato chips and veg.”—Junior Patrick Canler
“I would want to celebrate Learn About Butterflies Day because it’s so random. I could probably celebrate just by looking at some pretty photos of butterflies.” -Senior Monica Ibarra
“I would want to celebrate Something on a Stick Day because I’ve never heard of it before but it sounds interesting. I would probably try to eat a corndog to celebrate since that’s something on a stick.”-Senior Melissa Morales
“If I had to choose, I would celebrate “Learn about Butterflies” day and I would catch a ton of butterflies and put like, 3 in each jar. Then, I would pass out a jar of butterflies to each person at school and we would release them all at once and they would create this giant cloud of butterflies and block out the sun and cause extinction.” –Freshman Riley Murphy
“I would celebrate Waffle Day because I like waffles. I would make a lot of waffles and come to school with a giant bin of waffles and throw them at people.” –Sophomore Coen Christian
“Extraterrestrial Day because the aliens are going to come and get us eventually and we should celebrate it so we can become friends with them. I would throw a huge alien party at my house and set up a bunch of strobe lights so we could see the aliens.” –Sophomore Josie Overland
“For me it’s definitely between Something on a Stick Day or Extraterrestrial Day, I think I like Extraterrestrial Day because if someone disappears, we’ll just be like, ‘they got abducted!’ I would celebrate it by abducting people.” –Sophomore Marin Callaway
“I like Extraterrestrial Abduction Day because it’s the most out of this world holiday. I would celebrate it by abducting someone out of their class.” –Freshman Cameron Bridges
“My gut tells me to go with Extraterrestrial Abductions Day. Oh wait, maybe it’s the probe in my stomach… Obviously I would celebrate the return of our true overlords.” –Junior Benjy Mailings
“I would sacrifice Supreme Sacrifice Day. I feel like we need a day where we can just unwind and show our extreme devotion to whatever deity we please. The most humane way to celebrate would be to collect Cane toads in the forest, freeze them, and then sacrifice them on this day.” –Junior Marisa Pierce
“I would celebrate Something on a Stick Day because I love food and I would eat anything I could wrap around a stick.” –Sophomore Emily Murdock
“I’d celebrate National Potato Chip Day because potato chips are the supreme, super awesome, stupendously amazing spectacular snack. I’d be a fatty and sit on the couch, watching Invader Zim with some friends.” –Junior Mario Rodriguez
“I’d celebrate National Potato Chip Day since I’m really hungry right now. I’d probably just eat a bunch of potato chips.” –Sophomore Ben Hoffman
Reporting by: Lindsey Agnew, Cassia Pollock, Charlotte Ohrbom, Emma Lindley, Elisa Figueroa, Caroline Glass, Caitlin Hird, Jocelyn Lee, Katie McPherson, Kianna Eberle, Sarah Kochanek, Mae Wright, Tacy Manis, Olivia Mock, Natalya Ballard, Tatiana Skomski, and Taylor Knudsen