Good afternoon parents, teachers, and most importantly classmates. It has been one long ride and I’m proud to say that we finally made it. This night is about all those late nights we stayed up studying or finishing a speech the night before even if we had a whole month to do it to all the great times we had hanging out with our friends at lunch and outside of school. Sadly all good things have to come to an end. However, this day shouldn’t just be about reminiscing over what we are leaving behind but looking forward to what life has to give to us, many of you will go on to live prosperous lives and leave Yucaipa but unfortunately that isn't the case for all of us. I would however like to give a shout out to my family for always supporting me when I felt like giving up on school, everything I do is for them, and lastly I would like to give a thanks to my friends and girlfriend for all the crazy stories we have together. I would like to share a few of those stories if you guys don’t mind. Let's turn back the clock to eighth grade, it was the start of a new school year in a new city, i hated that we were moving from our old house in Perris simply because I had spent five years there and had made a lot of friends. I went into the new school year with a bad mindset and sadly that was the worst choice for me, instead of socializing and trying to make new friends I spent the first day thinking about the friends I had left behind. Unfortunately, that never changed, and I passed
I want to start off this evening by giving my appreciation for the people who have played an important role in shaping our lives up to graduation. I want to thank the people that supported us through our heart breaks and our successes, to those who served as a friend when we needed them most, to the people who served us hot food after a long day of school, and who helped make every party and celebration a success. Yes, I am talking about the wonderful people at Chipotle. #ChipotleisLife. Just kidding, I sincerely want to thank our
First off I would like to congratulate everyone for making it this far. I would like to thank my classmates, my friends, and my family. I especially want to thank our teachers, for always supporting and encouraging us. If it weren’t for the people who support us daily, we would not be where we are today. I would like everyone to turn to their families, and teachers to thank them for all that they have done for us.
Socially, I decided to isolate myself from everyone else as I had developed a bad impression of people. I became the shy kid who sat in the corner in class and didn’t speak with anyone. I didn’t have a sense of direction or any kind of plans and frankly, I wasn’t worried, although I should have been. I stopped caring for school and completely stopped studying and for a couple of months, I thought I would never make it out and graduate high school. Thinking back of this time still frightens me. Who knows how I would be today if I had stayed like this.
Even though I didn't move far, the school change caused a lot of my previous
Nothing makes me happier then acting like an actually mother to you all even though way more then half of you in this room are older then me. Baking for you all, giving out advice, and my favorite cleaning up after your parties (mostly when I am still hammered and at the party) brings nothing more to my face then a smile. Seeing you all truly happy is what makes me happy. In life, there are few moments better than those that are filled with absolute, unequivocal happiness and with no doubt I feel like being your fraternities sweetheart will be a moment I will always cherish. I would like to say one last thank you, thank you to the vertex, 519, Hammond, terrace, mill manor, titty city, campus, la Jolla, the dean and to every location I have made the best memories at. I am signing out by saying on last thing, thank you to the DKE’s who have encouraged me to black out, to the DKE’s who have blacked out with me, and to all of the DKEs who have helped me in a black out. Thank you boys for being my sweethearts just like I hope to be
Good evening Yucaipa high school graduates, friends, family, staff, school board members, and administration. I'm honored to be the class speaker of the Yucaipa high school graduating class of 2017! Tonight I will be sharing different events from my life that have impacted me the most and that inspire me, as I hope they will inspire you. Although before I start I want to give a huge shout out to my best friend/sister Haley Hillrich because without her I don’t think I would be up here tonight. Now lets get started so we can officially graduate.
At the age of ten years old, I had just moved to Arizona and didnt have any friends. I was scared in a new place and we had moved alot so didnt want to make friends if we were going to move again.
Furthermore, I do not regret a single part of this year, and even parts of eighth grade I was dreading, such as the National History Day project, turned out to be wonderful learning experiences that I genuinely enjoyed participating in. Thank you, teachers for continuing to find ways to encourage our further learning. Thank you, fellow classmates for helping me and making me smile. Thank you, Mrs. Arzola, Mrs. Chung, and all of the South Pointe staff for investing in so many new programs. And finally, thank you to the whole South Pointe community for supporting each other as we all continued to grow together and find out what our true passions are. I am both excited and extremely nervous for my journey into high school, and I can only hope to find another school as great as this one, that will continue to shape our lives just as South Pointe has. So, as we exit the grounds today and move onto high school, I can’t help but think that we will all reconvene here when our children will have the privilege of walking in our
In school I always had great group of friends we all keep one another in line. But it was my senior year and I had so many great plans of how it will turn out. So the beginning my school year was great until a week before thanksgiving I went on a trip to Disney World with my
For me, it was a rough time and like many, I regret the way I acted and treated people. Middle school was the wedge that drove our circle of friendship apart. We started having fewer classes with each other, forcing us to branch out our friend group more. Like a balloon with too much air blown into it, our friend group popped. Lily, Katlynn and I were eventually separated and I had begun to branch out and make friends with people I never thought I would. Looking back now, I can tell the type friends I made were not meant ones to be in my life forever. I never had a person with whom I hung out every weekend, or told every part of my life to. No one had known me as well as Lily and Katlynn used to. I had become a floater. I didn’t belong to one stereotypical social group, but made friends with most every person I
I had a lot of problems that made it difficult to get through the day at times. For one, my family moved around a lot so I often had to start a new in a few schools and make friends all over again. It got to the point where I did not really want to try to make friends at all. I had a few though in highschool, a few classmates I talked to but not really opening up to people fully as I wanted. I felt that there was a good chance we would move again. As they years progressed, it slowly got worst. I never really opened up about to anyone, not even my parents. I just kept it bottled up inside me. I kept it all inside. How sad I felt, how much I felt like I was not capable at anything, able to succeed in life. I kept the hurt I felt when my younger sister seemed to suddenly become a mean, selfish person who saw me as a freak. I never truly opened up about how lonely I felt even with
At my old school I had plenty of friends, but none like the ones at Craft, or so I thought at the time. We had all met earlier in the year before move in day, but I did not talk to any of them. I was very nervous, as I usually am, to meet new people, to talk to new faces that I did not know. I realized once I arrived to Craft that was a major mistake as many of the other Craft kids had already been introduced to one another and became friends before arriving. The only other person in Craft I knew was my roommate and even he had made an abundance of friends. Luckily for me my family was still there, but I knew not for long. I knew that they would have to leave, and I was going to be there alone until I seen them again at the Craft presentation later on in the day. I was scared and nervous about what the immediate future held for me. I did not know if the people at Craft would like me. I did not know if I would like them, and that absolutely terrified
Since moving I had lost my best friend Greed and was all alone bullied again for my intelligence and weight gain from being with Gluttony. It was hard that year for me making no friends and weighing twenty pounds over a kid my age. A year after, I finally made friends at my school because of 'Pride". He was an amazing companion that helped me accomplished many things. Thanks to Pride I got over Gluttony and focused my intensions toward sports like basketball.
Our graduation is our coming of age, our right of passage. As we walk across this stage we are writing the closing pages to our Chapter I and heading into the great unknown. It's kinda scary -- but hey, don't you cry, even though high school is over, the times we've shared and the friends we've made will never be lost. The clock is ticking, time is fleeting and nobody lives forever. But true friendship is something we can count on never dying. I hope wherever we go in life it will be happy and even if we all move to remote island countries we can all count on the memories and laugh at all the stupid things we did.
Hello, we would like to welcome and thank all of you for being here with us tonight to celebrate our high school graduation . It truly is an honor to be surrounded by so many significant people who have impacted our lives immensely throughout our highschool years. We would like to thank the wonderful people here tonight that we have the privilege to call our parents. Whether you are a mother a father, grandma or grandpa, or an aunt or an uncle; we are here, graduating today because of all of you.