06-06-2008, 06:23 AM
...is over now. It was not very much fun. Ah well.
I go to a gifted school, so now I have the extremely impressive sounding 'Gifted Education Diploma in Academic Excellence with Honours and Community Volunteerism.' To bad I still have to take finals...
Our valedictorian address was phenomenal. Got a standing ovation. Here's some quotes.
"I don't want to be a proper penguin."
"Maybe our Grads aren't ready for the real word. But you know what? I think the real world isn't ready for our grads!"
(about halfway through his speech)
"Oh yeah, I have notes. Sorry, people."
And more such. It's hard to get on paper; it was just the enthusiasm of it. It was all about how differences should be celebrated and how everyone is unique and brilliant in their own way and such. Then later we had our class 'historian' give a speech, which was also pretty damn good and included:
"Some people think we're all just crazy in this school. But I don't think so. I think, in other schools, kids have to put on masks to hide who they really are, to fit in. Here it's not like that. Here you can act like who you really are, and I think that maybe the crazy way we act here is how people are supposed to act. Maybe it's everyone else who's mad."
I go to a gifted school, so now I have the extremely impressive sounding 'Gifted Education Diploma in Academic Excellence with Honours and Community Volunteerism.' To bad I still have to take finals...
Our valedictorian address was phenomenal. Got a standing ovation. Here's some quotes.
"I don't want to be a proper penguin."
"Maybe our Grads aren't ready for the real word. But you know what? I think the real world isn't ready for our grads!"
(about halfway through his speech)
"Oh yeah, I have notes. Sorry, people."
And more such. It's hard to get on paper; it was just the enthusiasm of it. It was all about how differences should be celebrated and how everyone is unique and brilliant in their own way and such. Then later we had our class 'historian' give a speech, which was also pretty damn good and included:
"Some people think we're all just crazy in this school. But I don't think so. I think, in other schools, kids have to put on masks to hide who they really are, to fit in. Here it's not like that. Here you can act like who you really are, and I think that maybe the crazy way we act here is how people are supposed to act. Maybe it's everyone else who's mad."