wow...its finally over

well everyone, Ive graduated, and its definitely been an emotional week. tuesday was the only day we had to go to school, it went by pretty fast and we finally got all of our last school related things done with. that night we went to the school late and did our last senior prank which included a 7 food giraffe statue, 15 alarm clocks, 2 miles of plastic wrap and lots of burnt uniforms and school work. All of the seniors had a great time helping out with this, and at about 1:00 am when we finished, we got on a bus and headed for Disney Land! our day at Disney Land was seriously one of the best days ever, I mean how many times do you get to go to the happiest place on earth with your friends and teachers?! I spent most of the day with some of my best friends and our two teacher chaperones hitting as many rides as possible in our 15 hours or so at Disney land and California Adventures.  we had an awesome day in which we got to be with sopharry on her first trip to disney land, we broke Sill's Indiana Jones curse and I finally got over my fear of upside down roller coasters! by the end of the day we were all so tired im impressed we got back to the bus. half of us could barely walk, Zareen was being hilarious with all of her complaints and comments and I was laughing uncontrollably about everything. once we got the bus we all pretty much crashed until we got back to Stockton and at that point most of the seniors just went home and slept for the rest of the day.
Then finally, Friday was here, the day that we had all been waiting for for SO long. we had a senior breakfast/awards ceremony in the morning at moo moos of all places, then had graduation rehearsal. when we walked into the empty Scottish Right temple I think everyone had a moment of realization that it was finally happening, and in a few hours that room would be filled with our loved ones to see us graduate from high school. once rehearsal was over the long awaited yearbooks had finally found their way into stockton, and into our possession. a few of the seniors drove back to the school as fast as we could were we got a few lower class men and quite a few of the faculty sign our yearbook. this is where the tears really started for me. after signing the year books of so many people I would miss I was a little emotional, and it just took me reading one note in my own yearbook (it happened to be from Mr Sills) to make me start bawling. Needless to say I decided it would be better to stop reading my yearbook until I was home. After we left the school I had a few hours to get ready for graduation before heading back to the scottish right temple. we signed more year books and waited for the ceremony to start. I fortunate enough to give a speech at my graduation and was so thankful for that opportunity. I started crying again as soon as I sat down and didn't stop for quite a while. the ceremony seemed pretty quick. before I knew it I had walked up to get my diploma, the ceremony ended and I had a few more minuets to say goodbye to my classmates before they disappeared into the crowd of people.

And now Im not exactly sure how to feel. I mean obviously I'm excited to move on with my life and see what happens, but I loved high school. Ben Holt was like an amazingly crazy, supportive,awesome family. Now I understand why so many alumni come and visit all the time. so its definitely sad to know that I wont go to high school and see all of those people every day of my life anymore. No more jacob and enrique making me laugh in art, no more of mr Sills sassy comments or Ms Powells hilarious accents. no more of the senior class super team that is Ashley and erin, and no more shows with Ms Kindred and the rest of the drama people I love so much, and of course a million other people and things that I will miss about high school.... but this is it! graduating high school and going off to college was one of the reasons I made this blog in the first place! so that I could record this journey as my life changes in so many ways. So yes its sad to leave high school, but I know I'll come back and visit, thats what happens when a child leaves a family. But in the mean time I am unbelievably excited to spend my last summer before college with my friends and tackle my next big adventure!