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Graduation Speech : My Writing

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Hi, I’m Alexandria and I’m in the 11th grade, or a Junior in highschool. I usually love learning but this year I don’t have very good teachers so I haven’t been trying very hard in my classes; obviously I want good grades but nothing is interesting so I get distracted very easily and miss what the teacher says.
When I was in my least favorite class, language arts, on Wednesday we got assigned another essay. I had this class with my best friend, Kayley, and we usually did the essays together but last week we got in trouble and can’t do that anymore. The essay was a narrative and was worth half of our final grade but I wasn’t worried, I always did good on essays even when I did them the night before they were due.
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“Oh, cool,” She said and we continued on with our Friday.
Since it was the weekend I decided that I wouldn’t work work on the essay; instead I slept until mid-afternoon everyday and hung out with my friends once I finally woke up. Before I knew it, it was Monday and I had just two days to complete my essay. Kayley was supposed to come over after school so I could just ask her to help me.
Once we got home Kayley and I completely lost track of time and before we knew it she had to go home. Now I was stuck to do this stupid essay alone and only had one more day.
Okay, I will come home right after school tomorrow and get this essay finished I told myself before I went to bed that night.
I got up the next morning and went to school just like any other normal day. When I got to third period, language arts, the teacher asked how we were all doing on our essays; I told him that I was almost done and was going to finish tonight. I mean it was almost the truth right?
That day when I got home from school I went straight to my computer to type the essay that I had been dreading so much all week. I began writing and surprisingly, it was really easy. I knew exactly what to say and I was halfway finished before I knew it. “Alexandria, you need to leave for your dentist appointment in five minutes!” I heard my mom yell from the kitchen.
Oh no! I had completely forgotten about my dentist appointment. This wasn 't good, now I would only have about an

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