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Graduation Day
Samantha Bryan
This is it. Today’s the day I’ve been waiting for all my life. This is the day when I say farewell adolescence and hello to Adulthood. It was just in 2005, when I told Shauna-Kay that I wish it was me who was graduating instead of her, I told her how I envied her, but now, today, Sunday, July 8, 2008 is my day. The day I will walk down the isle with my fellow classmates with pride and dignity. This is the day that I show my parents, relatives, friends and other people I don’t even know that I have accomplished five hard-working years in high school.
For some reason I feel strange. Why do I feel strange? I can’t seem to find myself! Where am I? Is it because I’m so excited or is it that I’m over joyed and just cant believe that this is the day I say goodbye to high school? Someone help me please! I need an answer and fast. Wait a minute, there is no one else, it’s just me. I hope my feelings are not displaying. I need to calm down. It is time to march up the down the aisle. I hope I don’t miss a step and fall, I have seen it happen so many times on TV. Could it really happen? I certainly hope not.
Wow I can’t believe it. It was just last September I was praying for this day to come but now I feel slight regrets. Is it that I miss my years spent at this prestigious institution? Or is it the separation between those that I have come to know and trust. The one’s I used to sit with in the cafeteria and talk about everything, one’s I did home work with, the one’s that had my back when I needed them. The teachers who had been so patient with us even at times when we were a little hard headed and a Principal that we could go talk to at any given time. He was never too busy to hear our cries. He was like father and a friend to all of us. I doubt I will ever find a principal like you Mr. Singh.
It was just a few years ago that we entered the gates of Alpha, not knowing what we were entering into. We were all young and had no knowledge of what high school would be like. Surely many of us had doubts about attending a Catholic School, seeing that we were from different religious backgrounds and beliefs and were told all sorts of things about such schools. Before I started the school people would tell me that Catholic Schools worship statues of Mary and Jesus, many went as far as to tell me not to go to Alpha because they were too strict. The thing is what these people did not understand was that discipline played a vital part in Alpha. At Alpha they believe in the proper grooming of young ladies and not just to teaching academics. The ladies at Alpha had to be well disciplined and not just academically smart. Today I stand as a proud Alpharian, one who knows the truth about her school.
Memories, memories, oh beautiful memories, what will I ever do without you. Why now? Why attack me now when I am trying to enjoy every last minute of this day. I had yesterday and the day before and the days before. Can’t you wait till tomorrow? I just want to concentrate on my steps, I just want to hear the sweet sound of the organ. The organ that played over the pass five years at Mass, Easter Service and Founders Day. The steps I take now will never be again. These steps were once taken when marching in this great Cathedral for Mass.
It is time to step up on the altar. Thank you Lord I did not fall. That’s a relief. The time as come for us to sing, let us sing with great joy. I am singing with joy but yet I feel great pain within. Is it normal to feel this way? Oh wait, its time to pray. Please pray for me Father for I am possessed with memories that will haunt me after today. Will I survive from this great separation? Or will I die from great isolation? Fellow classmates wait don’t leave. If only I had a time machine. We could go back and relive our great lives at this school.
It is time for our final song. It is time for us to move along. It is time for us to say goodbye, dear Lord please don’t make me cry. I must say that truly it was an honor for me to attend this school. I truly do feel honored. It is now time to walk our last walk on this spot of ground, so let us walk with pride and dignity, with our heads up high aiming to reach the sky. I know it is time for us to go our separate ways but I in my heart my you will always stay.
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