Sunday, June 10, 2007

farewell speech,

From boy cooties to double dating, school has matured and so have I. School is probably the most important thing. Without it, where would I be in 4 years? How would I get a good job? School is a place where the most memories take place, where you meet best friends and even go through some tough times. I could never imagine how life would be without it.

1998, the year the most important part of my life started, SCHOOL. When I started kindergarten at Holy Ghost, I was welcomed with a surprise. The surprise was that instead of only having English classes, I’d have a polish one as well. You would normally choose if you want to go in the morning or in the afternoon, but I went for the whole day. Well, fortunately for me, I was the type of kid who loved sitting in a classroom and learning new things, which helped me get through the six and a half hour days.

After a year of learning how to count to 100 in both English and polish, I decided I had enough. My mom decided that I should try out French at Laura Secord School. I remember walking into Mr. Wilcox’s room and being amazed by all of the posters on the walls. Every month we’d learn a ‘chicken soup’ poem, which helped me learn how to read. My two best friends were Ashley and Sabrina, we did everything together. The problem was that Sabrina and Ashley weren’t friends, so I took the responsibility of introducing them to each other.

On the first day of school in grade 2, my mom came to get me at lunch at Laura Secord. She told me she found a French school that was way closer to our house. Ecole Bannatyne School was the school that started my most memorable memories. Mme. Beauregard was my favourite teacher by far. We did math with candy, made apple sauce in class and went on a field trip every month. That was the year I met my two best friends that lasted me all through elementary school, Meaghan Byrne and Samantha Sarty. Everybody knew no one could split us up, no matter what; it was always Sam, Alex and Megz. There was a house in the back field that has two random red shingles on it, so we called it ‘the house with red eyes’. We made ourselves believe that people got murdered in that house, which led us to do other silly things. Sometimes I’d stop randomly while we were walking in the field and I’d pretend I was being possessed. The thing is, we all believe I was actually being possessed, even though we all knew I was just pretending. Sam said she saw a little girl pushing a doll carriage and that the doll lifted its head out of the carriage. Our friend Erin brought in a porcelain doll for show and tell, and Megz said she saw it turn it’s head on its own. Those memories have shown how much I’ve grown out of my ‘child hood’ days and that we all aren’t the same anymore.

I remember my grade 3 year as a blur, because not much happened. Mme. Labossière was my teacher and a lot of people thought she looked like a witch, I agreed. Alicia Mark was never the best student and she was always getting herself into trouble. One day, we were having an indoor recess, because it was pouring outside. Megz, Sam and I were playing with our beanie babies, because that was the ‘it’ thing for us that year. All of a sudden we heard a loud bang; Alicia Mark was running on top of all of the desks, hopping from one to the other. The next thing we knew, Alicia was on the ground beat red, and the desk was in two pieces. That day I learned that I shouldn’t hang out with her, because I thought she was a bad influence.

Grade 4 at Ecole Bannatyne has one of the weirdest and creepiest memories I can remember. My class and I were all sitting working on our work with our teacher Mme. Aquin sitting at her desk. When all of a sudden the door opens, giving us a view of an old woman with long scraggly grey hair, wearing a long coat and holding a bible. She walked in and asked where we thought we were going when we died. Not really knowing what to say, we just automatically said heaven as if someone was controlling us. Then the woman burst out screaming how we were all going to hell and what not. From that day she came back, making our school have lockdowns and having the police cruise around our school. That was the time I learned why you actually shouldn’t talk to strangers. Until this day we remember her as ‘the mole lady’.

Grade 5 wasn’t all that exciting, we had Mme. Tanner in the morning and Mme. Tornato in the afternoon. The mole lady returned yet again, but unfortunately for her, the police made her move to the north end. According to my little brother, she came back AGAIN last year, talk about desperate! This was the last year at Bannatyne, which was sad, but I was also excited to start middle school the following year.

Once again the whole ‘meet new people, make new friends’ deal started. I wasn’t scared or anything, just excited. The first day og grade 6 I met Vanessa, Jessica and many others. It was a change going from one class to another for each subject, as I was used to sticking in one class for the whole day. Finally, I got used to it and I felt comfortable around the ‘new’ kids in my class.

Now it was my second year at Golden Gate. Grade 7 was nothing compared to grade 6, I befriended so much more people in grade 7. French camp was so much fun, a lot of stuff happened there. That was the time I actually started to be friends with Ms. Moir. Lorena and I had to go look for wood and bark to start a fire. While I was pulling off bark from a tree, I rubbed up against the tree and I said it ‘raped’ me. So, Lorena and I continued that joke throughout French camp and until this day. Grade 7 was also the year I met Chanelle, I can’t quite remember when and where we became friends. I met Natalie that year, and we became good friends in no time. She and Heather got into a fight, then soon enough we were all friends again. Then, to my surprise Natalie and I got into a fight, which wasn’t that good. Finally I got the courage to tell her what bothered me, and finally forgave her. I became much more responsible, by taking care of my problems on my own. Then grade 7 ended, which brings me to grade 8.

Wow, this year has gone by so fast, which is kind of sad. From good to bad memories, so many things have happened this year. It’s hard to put grade 8 into a paragraph, but to start off, all I can say is DRAMA, DRAMA, DRAMA. I don’t think I can count how many fights have happened this year between people; I’d need 3 or more hands to count with. School got a little more difficult, especially in science, but I kind of thought it would. I’ve matured so much this year, well not exactly; I still crack jokes and laugh at pretty much EVERYTHING, but I can be mature when I need or want to. Looking back at the grade 6 pictures, everyone has changed physically and mentally. This year I became much better friends with Lorena, Vanessa, Chanelle and Jessica. I’ve built so many memories with people this year. A week ago Lorena, Vanessa, Chanelle and I were sitting in the kitchen at Lorena’s house eating lunch. When someone said something and we all started laughing pretty hard, all of a sudden everything looked slow motion. I got this weird feeling of how much we’ve gone through this year, how middle school was ending so soon and that so much stuff is going to happen in high school. I’ve been late a lot of times this year, that made me realise that next year, tardiness affects your marks, so I gained the responsibility of changing my ways. Grade 8 has taught me many things. For instance, my actions reflect on me and that the things I say or do can ruin friendships or get me to be the ‘center of a rumour’. This year I was on the grade 8 girl’s basketball team, we were one amazing team. Playoffs made us pick up game, made us become even more of a team and put a lot of pressure on us. Semi-Finals we played Lincoln; sweaty, tired and tears dripping down our cheeks, the buzzer rings and we win! That got us into Finals! We were playing against Bruce for 1st place; the game was nothing like our semi-finals game. We all said our semi-finals should have been our championship game, because the semi-finals game was so intense and full of tears. Working extremely hard all season paid off, and we won 1st place in Divisional Championships; that was the highlight of our season. All I can say is that I’m surely going to miss this school, because of all the things that have happened here the past 3 years.

I’m really excited for high school, but still nervous and not sure what to expect. My expectations for my future are to graduate and go to university. I for surely need to keep my marks up in all of my classes to reach my goal.

Nine years of school and still 4 more to go, then off to university. These nine years have gone by really fast, but worth it every step of the way. Looking back on everything has shown me all the ways I’ve changed. When I graduate I’ll be looking back and laughing at half of the things that have happened over these years. My experience at school was awesome, but my experience here at Golden Gate is one I’ll never forget.
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