Lazer Rager

While planning our event, we were sure it would be a huge hit. The main part of our event, laser tag, was, everyone who played thoroughly enjoyed it and we had a lot of people sign up. However, the dance didn't go quite as planned. Looking back on it, I see why and if my group decides to do another dance we will be prepared this time around. As people left the dance, I asked them why they were leaving and what most of them said was the gym was too big or because other people were leaving. I realized that I would have to do something in order to get people to stay at the dance. I went into the dance and took the red velvet ropes we had around the margarita stand and started making a makeshift dance floor by roping people in. At first it was working well and no one else was leaving but then we ran into another problem. People were complaining that there was no rap music and so some more people started to leave. I was watching the dance slowly unravel so I repositioned the ropes to make the dance floor even smaller but it was too late, there weren't many people left and they left because they said it was awkward having such a small amount of people there. In a last ditch effort, Mick, Juan and I walked to the student center and tried to bring people back to the dance but the student center was surprisingly pretty empty. I asked someone where everyone was and they told me everyone was in their dorms so I was a little upset. The people in the student center we told to go back did not want to because they knew no one was there. At this point, we walked back to the dance and my group decided to end the dance early. The laser tag was still going on but everyone there had already played once so we decided to end that as well. Kaston continued DJing while we cleaned up which made it bearable. In the end, I believe our event was, in fact, a big hit because our main event was the laser tag, but it did bum me out that people left the dance. I was also a little angry because it was Kaston's first time DJing for a dance and people just walked out on him.