The End Of An Exceptional And Prominent Chapter

I’d like to think that when i graduate i’d be more excited rather than sad to leave, but truth be told i’m more sad to do so. All your life you have been told where to sit, where to go and how to do it. Everyone has been holding my hand this whole time and now i’m choosing my class schedule for college, something that was made for me my whole life. Throughout senior year i have learned valuable life lessons which will help me, throughout college and life in general. Would you believe me if i told you most of those lessons were learned right here in Mrs.Hilers senior english class?

And now it’s time to leave what I’ve come to know as home for the past 18 years. It makes me sad to go, and coming back on vacations and seeing all my mentors and teachers in this comforting and amazing community will certainly bring a smile to my face. I’m not sure what college will be like; I only know that it will be entirely new, but I do know that the community of that “small town a couple hours west of Boston” will always be home to me, and has fully prepared me for anything and everything I will face over the next four years, and for the rest of my life. Thank

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

We are all leaving the nest and flying in different directions. Some of us will move on to a school just across campus, while others will leave to a school thirty minutes away from here. I know we are all anxious and excited to be leaving the building that some of us have been practically living in since kindergarten. I have created so many memorable moments here that I will never forget. Today, I ask you to look around you. Who do see before you? I see parents that have worked hard to give us the opportunity to learn and are now so proud of our growth. I see teachers who have taught us so much more that just Algebra or English. Then, I see us, the formal leaders of the school. We are known as the eight graders, but I see us as a giant 40 person family. We are united by the common factor of our graduation. So today as we receive our much-coveted diplomas in our navy cap and gowns, I ask you to indulge in these last following days with your fellow

A year ago I was still a student in University of California, Santa Cruz. Studying in such environment forced me to make the decision to leave California for my future. Nonetheless, saying goodbye to my dearest friends was the hardest task.

So, since this is like in another world from Reawakened, i don’t have to recap that book. The book has a very quick pace, it jumps from chapter to chapter rapidly and you usually need to read some twice because sometimes you’re like ‘uhhh… what just happened again?’. It starts with Kells applying for a job at the circus just to get some money for college. The circus has, guess what, a white tiger!! What a surprise. She slowly makes a connection with this tiger, reading her favorite poems and occasionally drawing him. The cursed tiger then can randomly shift into a human (only for 30-25 minutes of course). He asks the manager of the circus to call Mr. Kadam, who quickly goes over to Oregon and buys the tiger, persuading Kelsey to come with him

The bomb exploded. The screams of terror and agony became louder than before. No one knew how this could have happened. We were all sitting in the dining room waiting for dinner when a loud shriek interrupted the silence. Everyone stood to look out the window. In the middle of town, which was not far enough in my opinion, laid a large, oval object. There was nothing special about it. It simply looked like a hunk of metal until it suddenly began counting down. We immediately knew what it was and started packing.

But i also know that i will thrive because i have had you in my life. I am going to graduate this year and i am going to college. I have my permit and i have a job interview. These are things i never thought i would even be able to think about much less achieve. So while our parting has blindsided me and is very hard i know we will both thrive in whatever journey we choose to go on. I know this not only because you are one of the most genuine caring nurturing people i have ever had the pleasure of knowing but because i was given the opportunity to learn from you, to thrive under your watchful eye, and to come out the other side with the utmost confidence that i will succeed. I know how hard this is on you also, you tell us we can be selfish and we can cry because you are leaving. But i also understand that this is a huge change for you also and i just want to tell you again that i know you can do this because i know you and you are wonderful. While i may never see you again i will always carry a part of you with me because people who have impacted my life in such a way as you have impacted mine never

As my final year of high school ends, I can’t help but to feel a flurry of emotions: I’m thrilled for the future and its opportunities, I’m overjoyed to be experiencing the long awaited senior year, but more importantly, I’m a bit sad. I’m sad because I’m about to say goodbye to Virginia Beach City Public Schools, an institution I can proudly call my family. I’m so proud to be a part of VBCPS and I can only hope that the school system is as equally proud of me.

I wish I could tell you that Vitya Anderson and I fell in love and never looked back. I wish I could tell you that I wake up to her every morning with my face buried in her strawberry hair. I wish I could tell you I spent the rest of my life staring at the New Jersey girl who looked as beautiful as California. I wish I could tell you we had children together, running around our backyard with their scabby knees and lemonade hands. I wish I could tell you we took a yearly vacation to the Dominican and that she got drunk every year and made a beautiful fool of herself.

As I stated earlier the Namesake focuses mainly on the upcoming of Gogol Ganguli. However, the story changes hands and is told from multiple peoples point of view as the book continues. The main people who narrate the story are Gogol, Mrs. Ganguli, Mr. Ganguli, and Moushumi. The book which covers a significant time gap or about thirty years starts off with Mrs. Ganguli pregnant with Gogol. Gogol was names so after the Russian author Nikolai Gogol. He is named so because his father Ashoke had been reading a book written by Gogol years prior while on a train ride that we find out ended up crashing. Ashoke had survived the train accident by dropping the page of the book he had been reading which rescue workers had found. Per traditional values their family believes

“Today is a celebration. A celebration of love, of commitment, of friendship, of family, and of two dogs who are in it for forever….”

The writing style of The Namesake is very simplistic. That made this book very easy to understand and know what the author was trying to have me understand. There were times when she was describing the Bengali culture, she would use words or phrases that I would not understand; but, Lahiri was very careful to explain all of the cultural terms, foods, and events to keep everyone on the same page.

Before I begin, on behalf of my family, I would just like to extend our deepest thanks for the tremendous outpouring of love and support we've received from all of you over the last few days. I am personally grateful for all of you being here today

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.