Speech For A Farewell Speech

Even though I didn't move far, the school change caused a lot of my previous

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.

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.

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

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

Since I was still wary of heartbreak, I was very closed off at first to people. Not surprisingly, I still made friends and connections with people but, still pushed away more. I didn’t have as much sleepovers or parties because didn’t want it to hurt as bad when I eventually would move again. Eventually I did and it did still hurt but I think I was more prepared for the pain. My junior year was in Massachusetts and despite being angry and resentful to my parents, I ended up liking the school there. It was smaller and a closer community. I was happy. I thought I was gonna graduate there, but nope, I moved again, this time I got a choice. It was either I live where my father was stationed in Kansas or go live family in Maryland. I chose Maryland because of family. My senior year was really hard for me to make friends. I was angry and closed off. I would spend my free time in library and that’s how I met my friends. I spent the year with them. Surprisingly my friend there was actually going to the same college as I so I didn’t feel as bad as I moved my last time. Also school transitions were not only hard on me, my father constant job was too on

Being a senior in high school is bittersweet. We’ll all be done with a huge chapter in our lives that has taken up ⅔ of our book so far. Though I am sad to leave, I am even more excited. The school gave me some tips to survive in the college and the rest of my life. School has taught me many things from how to write an essay to how to find the power of a triangle to how to cook Spanakopita correctly. I have also learned a lot about myself and my beliefs.

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

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

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.

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

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.