The music builds as you excitedly rush down towards the baseball field after a morning filled with making sandwiches or picking up trash at Lake Merritt for service learning. You wonder what types of activities will be available, how many jumpy houses will be there and what types of food there will be to feed your growing appetite. Anticipation grows as you wonder what ASB will have in store this year.
On Friday May 20, ASB opened the gates of the baseball field to celebrate Day on the Green. Each year ASB holds this end of the year event involving music, food stands, games, jumpy houses and plenty of other fun activities for students to celebrate the end of the year.
“My favorite part of ASB is an [planning an] event like Day on the Green,” senior ASB member Colin Dixon said. “Where you put in five hours of work before hand and you get to sit back and watch it all happen and know everything went accordingly.”
For this year’s Day on the Green ASB catered wide variety of foods, such as Top Dog, bubble tea, pizza and even a crepe station.
“We’ve been planning Day on the Green for two and a half months,” Dixon said. “It takes a couple of weeks to sort out the restaurants that we got our food from, but we did it early which is why we were able to get Cream, crepes and Top Dog.”
Throughout the years, the activities at Day on the Green have changed, from the amount of jumpy houses to the types of sports games being offered. However, the music, food, and endless fun has stayed the same, said senior Mariah Pappy.
“Day on the Green has really summed up my freshman year,” freshman Camille Creighton said. “All the great activites, food and music have really helped my year to go out with a bang.”
However, for the seniors, this Day on the Green has proven to be bittersweet as it is the last one they will celebrate.
“This Day on the Green has been the best out of the last three I have been to,” Pappy said. “Freshman year was pretty awesome but the food this year is definitely the best, the effort ASB put into it was worth it.”
