Present Me is Alright

Today was good.  Had a big brunch and played ultimate Frisbee.  I feel like I forgot something…oh IT WAS THE LAST DAY OF GOV SCHOOL.  Walking back from ultimate Frisbee (and feeling like a champ), it suddenly hit me when I was supposed to leave the lounge.  Made me feel like I wasted my time.  Said goodbye to people I will never see again, gave a big hug to old JD Primate, and kept up my arrogant persona in front of Burton and Harrington. 

Since I know I must say something about gov school, here it goes.  We students know it for what it is.  It isn’t superior to normal school learning wise, but it is so much better.  Chill teacher coupled with little work is a godsend for a lazy student.  The classes were not too boring (lin algebra...) so I was driven to work by myself.  I became more aware of the world outside of my school since I actually started to know people from other schools.  Last but not least, field trips, seminars, and breakfasts just added to the awesomeness.  I may love gov school for all the wrong reasons, but I would lie to the school board that gov school is the PINNACLE to keep that place existing.  

So now that is done, something I don’t know how to feel about.  Three times today people were surprised I wasn’t ready to ditch school.  I guess I don’t act like the person who would be sentimental and clingy to school.   First was Mr. Burton and his surprise that I would be coming for the ice cream social.  Though I haven’t dived into MVGS like others, I still love it (previous paragraph).  The second was Mrs. Andrews when I told her I’m definitely coming next week to her class.  Even if I would be doing nothing for 1.5 hours, I would still go.  The last was my bus driver who wanted to get me a drink on the last day.  I guess she expected seniors to be fed up and want to leave.  I seem to keep those feelings to myself.  Though I’m not devoted to these schools and have this huge depression after leaving them, I still want to savor the last few days.  

The last thing that is worth mentioning is the senior slide show.  All seniors went to the auditorium and watched all the senior’s pictures come up on the screen.  I sat beside VNA so we were yelling the whole time, saying stupid stuff but having fun.  It was really weird seeing people I haven’t talked to for forever.  The names of students I knew from middle school and the beginning of high school forced some random memories to surface.  Though VNA was probably yelling just to have fun, my yelling ended up being the way I expressed my feelings of the memories that I recalled.  I forget everything.  Today Andrew was talking about 3^rd grade, which I didn’t remember, and one girl was saying how we have known each other for 8 years, yet I didn’t really recall any memories of her.  It was cool having memories come back to me during the slideshow.  

So the end of high school is upon me.  I’ll probably end up forgetting most of it, so to put my feelings at this moment down in writing, I say we block out the bad memories and think of the good when we look back.  That is how I’m seeing my high school life; I can only see the good.  Though it probably wasn’t the reality, it feels good to know that I had happy memories.  Hmm that reminds me that I didn’t write about my letter…I’ll save that for tomorrow.  For now peace out.  

P.S. ALWAYS have your iPod charged.  You never know what sentimental moment you will get into that requires some good background music.