The classroom is quiet. The only sound is the soft scratch of pencils upon paper. Then, it starts. Faint at first. A student looks up. Singing. The door bursts open, and the teacher looks up. The Troubadours, to deliver this year’s round of Heart-o-grams. Each year, troubs teams up with ASB to deliver messages from students to classrooms, to put a little Valentines cheer in the slog of early February. ASB President and Senior Jace Porter said that she thoroughly enjoys the whole process.
“We really like going around, class to class,” Porter said. “It’s also a good way to get to know new faces, because we have to know everyones name to make the receipts for the Heart-o-grams.”
Porter said that it’s a healthy, momentary distraction from the daily routine of school.
“Students enjoy the music mostly,” Porter said. “But it’s also really fun to get a note and a rose.”
Members of ASB anticipate the process as much as the students, particularly on the day that the Heart-o-grams are handed out, said leading ASB member and senior Emma Fumagalli.
“I’m so excited,” Fumagalli said. “It’s a battle because only two ASB members can go each period, and everyone wants to go.”
Fumagalli said that it’s a treat to move throughout the school with Troubs.
“I think it’s fun to go around with Troubs,” Fumagalli said. “You know when they come into your classroom and you’re like ‘this is awesome’, and we get to do that over and over again.”
Porter said that the partnership between ASB and Troubs has existed for a really long time.
“It’s been around longer than I have been an ASB member,” Porter said. “Ever since Troubs started.”
Troubadours member and sophomore Jonah Broscow said that Heart-o-grams embodies the reasons behind his love of the group, and why he joined Troubs in the first place.
“Our whole point is to bring joy to kids in classes through song,” Broscow said. “We all love each other so much, so we just want to spread the love, and it’s a nice break for students to hear us sing.”
Broscow said that the group sings all throughout the first and fifth periods.
“We sing for like three hours,” Broscow said. “We pick different songs for different periods, and sing them on loop.”
Broscow said that the day can be taxing.
“We try to keep up the energy for every class,” Broscow said.
