Graduation and Grad Party! Category: Life Views: 76
So the past few days have been the cumulation of the past several months. Well technically -years-, but months in the sense of what my life has been like lately.
Thursday the 23rd I had my rehearsal for Graduation and it was cool because I got to see the idea of what was going to happen and meet my graduating class. For those of you that don't know I'm homeschooled so this was a homeschool graduation. It was cool though. There were 21 of us. I didn't know anyone, but I got to know the two people next to me somewhat so that was enjoyable.
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Friday was the big day so I arrived at 4:45 to get my pictures taken(the earliest slot--the ceremony started at 6:30). Only to find out that there was a problem scheduling and I couldn't get started on pictures till 5:00. So we waited and finally got my pictures. After that we finished up my picture board(which I had set up the previous night). And we looked at everyone elses. Then we waited for a bit and the orchestra(yes we had an orchestra) started playing Pirates of the Caribbean and I was so happy, lol. It was awesome.
After we took our group photo it was about time to start; so we all went out into the hallway and chatted and got into position to walk into the room. We walked into the room and took our place as we had practiced and...nothing went wrong, lol. The "announcer" talked for a min and the orchestra played "Shine Jesus Shine." Then our first major thing happened. We got a certificate of recognition from a representative in the state of Missouri. So that was pretty cool. Then the main speaker of the conference that was going on(that's why we had the graduation where we did) came up and gave a 15min sermon/lesson to us graduates which was interesting. I think the choir sang a song here.
After all this the bulk of the ceremony took place. The diploma awarding. The way we did it is the parents of the students gave a "2-3 minute" speech and then handed the award to the student. It was kinda cool because we got to hear a bunch of different parents encouraging their sons and daughters. That took awhile though because some, obviously, did not stick within the time limit :P.
After this was over the "announcer" said a few words and prayed and then they announced that we could place our tassels on the left side of our hats. And then right after that right before we walked out some guys threw their hats and I was kinda wanting to do that anyways so I did, lol. It wasn't the best throw ever, but it was short notice :P. So overall it was fun. It was cool to see all those people there for me, and my bro and sister-in-law came up, and they live 8 hours away.
Afterwords we chatted and said bye to everyone and then as we were about to leave we decided to see if my cousins and grandma wanted to go grab a bite since we hadn't eaten. So we all went to Steak N Shake and hung out for a little longer. Overall a great graduation :).
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Saturday afternoon was my "reception" so I invited my bunch of my friends and a few relatives to come to this arcade/pizza buffet place and we had a blast!
We had a private room for an hour and a half so we ate our food in there and hung out for awhile being random like we always are(Or more correctly, me and my girlfriend watching my friends be random and laughing with them like we always do, lol--gotta love them though). Then after pizza, cake, and presents(aside from money I got a cool Graduation Box my aunt made me, a Christian shirt from my friend, and my girlfriend made me this awesome collage of me and all my friends with our dodgeball team name on it).
Then after this we went to the arcade area. Most of the time there I spent with my girlfriend, but I hung out with my friends some too. My girlfriend and I both like playing this Jurassic park game they have there where we shoot dinosaurs, but it was busy like all night. So we played air hockey first(I won 5-7). Then we went and played bumper cars with some of my friends. The funnest part aside from bumping everyone was spinning in circles, it was sweet, lol. Then we watching several of my friends go on this huge simulator which was fun. We also played the Korean version of DDR twice throughout the night. My girlfriend is decent at it, but I'm just a tad better. Umm, then we played Deal or no Deal and I only got 25 tickets, but my girlfriend, as always, did awesome and got 105 tickets(I did follow the 200 ticket case amazingly though). Then we raced Go Karts with my friends and I took second. We finally got into the Jurassic Park game and we probably spent about $8 total, but we beat it! It was nice. We did several other random things, but my favorite random moment I haven't mentioned was I found a whack-a-shark game and I now love that game. What could be better than getting to hit little plastic sharks as hard as you can? Lol.
Anyways I had an awesome weekend and I'm sad that it's over and school is back on :(. But O well, life must go on. Talk to you guys later! Bye.
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