Graduation Speech
Hello, everyone. Good evening, parents, teachers, siblings, friends, administrators and most importantly the Class of 2018. 3200 days ago, on Tuesday the 25th of August 2009 at 8:30 in the morning, amid all the commotion, we walked in two lines by each class into Hynes Elementary School for the very first time as kindergarteners. We waved goodbye to our parents and siblings as if we'd never see them again. Since that day, we've matured (some of us) and grown in knowledge and in size and our scholastic careers have amassed into great ones with many memories to remember for years to come. Back in second grade, we were given frogs that we'd studied and nursed to adulthood from tadpoles. My frogs were eaten by each other, and Isar's dad killed theirs. In fifth grade, we were all obsessed with the "21" joke and we deliberately pushed chairs to the ground and screamed, "A CHAIR FELL!" in class. In sixth grade, Mrs. S was furious with the four