- 1. not only are there no rules against walkmans and CD players at a rave, you don't even NEED one cuz the awesome muzik is all around you
- 2. raves don't send you to sleep like biology class does
- 3. you don't have to wear that dumbass plaid schoolgirl skirt and ugly red sweater at a rave
- 4. at skewl you write notes on paper, using a pen; at a rave you draw trippy trails in the air, using glowstixx
- 5. there are absolutely NO rules against piercings, dyed hair, or any other expressions of individuality at a rave
- 6. you never leave a rave with homework
- 7. the backpack for skewl contains textbooks, worksheets, binders full of notes, and a bunch of blue or black pens. the backpack for a rave is loaded with jolly ranchers, chupa chups, stuffed animals, stickerz, pez, glitter, vicks inhalers, and pens or crayons in all different colours of tha rainbow
- 8.there is very little chance that you'll be bored to sleep at a rave. if for some obscene reason you are, there is even less chance that you'll be forcefully woken up and given detention
- 9. at the end of a rave, you feel just as tired and spent as you do at the end of a skewl day... but skewl can never give you the warm, crazy, happy, exhausted-yet-so-alive feeling that you leave a rave with
- 10. you get *so* many more smiles at a rave than you do at skewl, even on a Friday
- 11. raves don't feed you cafeteria food
- 12. there is about 379.2 times more colour at a rave than in the skewl halls
- 13. you can wear the biggest, phattest, craziest pants to a rave and noone will make snide compliments. on the contrary, you will probably be complimented by a countless number of kidz
- 14. at a rave you never get accused of being a menace to society
- 15. at a rave you never get told to act your age
- 16. two words: NO TESTS
- 17. on skewl days you wake up and have so much trouble dragging yourself out of bed. on rave nites you just can't *wait* to bounce out of your door cuz you're so excited about all the kidz you'll get to hug and all the dope traxx you'll get to dance to
- 18. there is probably more theft going on at skewl than at all the raves in tokyo put together
- 19. try blasting out some NRG or acid trance at skewl lunchtime and see what happens
- 20. people at raves don't say, "happy *what*???" and look shocked every time you mention "happy hardcore". (it's so obvious what those dirty minds are thinking of, hehehe)
- 21. how many kidz at skewl will walk up to you and offer to give you a massage/backrub/chupa chup/light show/sticker/piece of strawberry flavoured bubble tape?
- 22. learning to liquid is just so much more fun than learning how to graph those functions
- 23. at a rave you can sing cheezy songs in the bathroom and kidz won't stare at you like you've just done something extremely taboo
- 24. at a rave, you can become closer frenz with more kidz in a nite than you will ever get to know superficially at skewl in a year
- 25. the literary techniques of robert frost just don't seem important when you're dancing like mad to the phat beats of jungle
- 26. raves don't make you feel like the world is trying to force you into becoming another one of the cookie-cutter clan
- 27. people at raves don't try to "confiscate" your candy, then scoff it down behind your backs, like some teachers at skewl like to do
- 28. you don't ever need to think up a good excuse to ditch a rave... you wouldn't wanna ditch a rave in the first place!
- 29. you don't get cute in megaphat pants and flashy sunvisors at skewl
- 30. no matter how much you may love your skewl and classmates, you will *never* be able to achieve the utter sense of euphoria, love and unity that a rave can make you feel!