2006 TuHS Graduation Day: Report!

[shichahn]

Yep, went to my brother's graduation, of course. My dad left to get seats for us ahead of time. Conveniently enough, he ran into Mr. Murray and so was able to get into the stadium area ten minutes before parents were supposed to get in, and saved us a bunch of seats in the front row and center, on the track, right behind the staff row. That was pretty cool. We ended up sitting right behind Malone, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Hill, and Ros. XD Ros was unconversational as usual. Anyway, shortly afterward, someone on the left side of the field tossed up a beach ball, and they batted it around until Martens caught it and ripped it open with his teeth. XDDD That was just awesome. After that, though, other random staff, including one guy who looked like a secret service agent, would pick them up. Secret Service dude got most of them. The crowd (not just the graduates, but the parents too) would boo him every time he showed up. In all, there were eight beach ball attempts, including one in the audience, but all were stolen away, alas.

Mr. Thompson gave the graduation speech this year. It was pretty good, I must say. Short and to the point and interesting, mostly based on quotations by Churchill and FDR (as is appropriate for a history teacher). And then some other stuff happened, speeches and music and whatever, nothing too remarkable, although I did find it interesting that this year's senior song was actually written and performed by a student and his friends. They were pretty good.

So overall, I suppose it was a decent graduation ceremony. It was just fun to see my old teachers and stuff like that. Casey's girlfriend's family ordered a bunch of plumeria leis from Hawaii, so Casey's been wearing his all day, and boy does it smell good. Surprisingly, the weather made it up to the mid-70s today, and though it never got extremely sunny, I still got sunburned pretty badly. Lame. I didn't think to put sunscreen on because it was cloudy and cold all day, but somehow at the school it was cloudy and very very warm. With bits of sun. That burned me. -_-

We came back and had champagne (which apparently was good, but I guess I wouldn't know; I tried a few sips but couldn't handle any more than that because alcohol is just gross to me), then we went out to dinner, courtesy of my grandma. Yum. I'm really full. And I'm probably going to be up until 2 AM because I had two glasses of iced tea. XD;

Yeah, that's all. I never could write a good conclusion to any of my papers; this entry is hardly going to be different.

Comments

[kuwari.livejournal.com]

Murray's speech for Adrian's graduation was probably the best one I'd heard. And man you got to sit next to all the cool people.. I miss Mr. Hill and his drone voice and witty humor.
Oh and Martens just got +5 points in my book.

[shichahn.livejournal.com]

Murray spoke at last year's, too? Because his speech at ours was amazing.

Martens = so cool. So very cool.