I'm done with high school.
I'm done with high school.
I'm done with high school.
24 hours from now, I'll have graduated from high school. Today was my last day of actual classes. And it's my easy day. First I had English. We actually lost power at school for about an hour this morning during first period due to a fallen tree. What a way to end the year...at least we weren't doing anything. A bunch of us (including my teacher) sat on the floor in front of the flood lights in the room (because the room has no windows) and the back-lights from our cellphones and played Apples to Apples until the power came back on. Then I had Calculus, where we watched all the music videos we made (our Titanic spoof was hands down the best...) and laughed really hard, as I do in every calc class. And I ended my day, and my high school career, in the band room. Just like it started. We just sat around and signed yearbooks and wrote thank you cards for people who sponsored our trip to Hawaii. And then Grams put a movie into his DVD player.
It was the video all of us seniors got at the end of our sophomore year, documenting our trip down to the Rose Parade.
We all pretty much just lost it then and there. To end our high school life with the thing that made us a part of the high school band before we even officially left junior high. That really was a special time, and there won't be another time like it...at least for a long, long time. Grams will always remember it, as will we. It's an end of an era, and nothing will ever be the same....
At the beginning of this whole project, I had no real hopes that I would make it to the very end. I thought that I would go on a break from school (Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.) and then would never come back. but I always did, even during the times when I would be stricken with anxiety attacks. But I made it. The countdown decreased as the days went on, and now I have no more days left until graduation. Now it's time to figure out what the next big project is for me...
I have plans this summer. And yet I don't have plans. I have to "give up" two weeks in July to dog sit. But I'm getting paid $700 for it, so I'm not complaining...
I'm looking forward to getting to spend time with people in a way that won't be tarnished by things that we have to do for school...'cause we'll be done. We have a few weeks together before things get crazy. But I intend on making the most of those weeks. I want to go camping. I want to take a trip with some of these people. I want memories of these people. They've given me so many good ones already.
One last time, I'm off to bed. I have to get up early and go to graduation practice at 8 tomorrow morning. But then I'm done at 10. And that's it until 7, when graduation starts.
If you're also graduating this week (or month, or have graduated int he past few weeks), congratulations! Class of 2012!!
In honor of completing my last days of public education, I leave you all with this:
Friends applaud, the comedy is over. (Beethoven, last words)
Days 'til graduation: 0
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