Graduation Speech

9 years... I was 5 years old and I started my education in Hynes elementary school.The funny part is that I still remember hiding behind my mom's leg scared to talk to the teacher. When I first started school I thought it was something that if I didn’t like I could just quit and never need to do it again; but I found out I was wrong. I hated school when I started, there was no play time, all we did was learn stupid things like letters and numbers. I wondered when and if I would  ever need them. I would always try and think of excuses to go home.

My mom always would tell me “You’re going to be thankful in the future.” or  “It’s one of the most important things in life.” which whenever I heard things like that I would be so confused and here I am now, grateful to have learned so much throughout these 9 years.School started off pretty boring and seemed useless, but the older I got I realized that there is a purpose of going to school and a lot more homework was assigned when I was growing up. I was never a big fan of school but the fact that I wouldn’t have known anything I know now without going for the past 9 years is something truly astonishing. Throughout the 5 years that I was in Hynes I met lots of great people, which some of them left and some I still know till this day. In general I like practically everyone from this school. This class have truly gone through a lot. I wasn’t in it since the beginning but from 3rd grade to 8th is truly lots of memories. I hope Dianna brought her notebook cause I mean that's basically a death diary. Everyone in this class had done at least 5 abnormal things.  From talking about pocket waffles to Sofia destroying Konrad during Macbeth, everyone in this class has something unique.

With all these memories no matter where we will go we’ll always have some kind of connection. It may not may not be as good as your Wifi connection but still pretty good. High school is like another chapter in your life and we all have to move one by leaving the past in the past and keep up with the present. Sometimes I try and think about how many countless hours we spent doing a science project , or getting pages for Mrs. Joyner as weird as it sounds, I actually enjoyed doing it. It all payed off in the end which made us these intelligent and useful.  As Steve Jobs once said” Your time is precious, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”  All of us in this class Have the skill and chance of becoming someone special, we could become the next Steve jobs, the president, we all could be the next big generation and whether we know each other or not we will end up as great people in this world and I wish the best for us. Thank you for all of these memories and I wish us the best!