Seniors at Amador Valley High in Pleasanton, California, took to the school parking lot last week to fill their personal parking spots with chalk drawings, reports Leona Jew in the school’s student newspaper.
“I think it’s really fun to do it with your friends and make memories. It’s really spirited to get your … school spirit up for the first week and just enjoy it,” she quoted one senior artist as saying.
Leona described the tradition as “a casual yet spirited way for seniors to commemorate the start of their senior year.”
Some seniors may go full Picasso, others may lean into stick-figure chic, and a few may embrace the “ran out of chalk halfway through” aesthetic. Whether it was intricate mandalas, giant smiley faces, or cryptic doodles only their friend group will ever understand, each spot became its own tiny billboard of personality.
Sure, the masterpieces might fade after the first good rain, but for now, the senior lot is as colorful as the last year of high school is bound to be. And if nothing else, it’s one parking tradition guaranteed to leave its mark … provided the custodian’s hose has no other plans.
