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and a new life begins....

June 20, 2006 at 4:55 AM

Tomorrow is my last full day of school before exam period begins and now I'm having mixed feelings. I'm super excited about school being done but now I have to clean out my locker and all the memories of it for the last time. I have to peel everything off the walls of the miniscule metal locker that I have shared with my friend all year. It's time to have my lunch "by the piller" for the last time. The spot that last September my three friends and I from English claimed as "our" spot that only once got invaded by outsiders. My Mom can go to my school and find her graduation picture, I can find her graduation picture. I won't get to go to my school again and find my graduation picture. It's being torn down. Not the entire school but the auditorium that I've posted pictures of before that I so love, and some of the other buildings are already being demolished and my two favorite buildings, Shatford and Ellis are being gutted. *Sigh*
A friend escorted me through the school last week to take some pictures so we could have some visual memories... You can see the pictures by clicking on this highlighted part of my blog entry.

Goodbye Penticton Secondary School. For all the ups and downs (more downs than ups) I will miss you!

Thanks for posting the photos. I feel like I've walked with you through your everyday life. I love your elf. Graduation is a momentous event. I hope that your star will keep rising in all the steps of your journey.
What's the plan now, Kelzey? Are you going to university? Leaving High School is a funny one, your phrase, "more ups than downs", is true for me too. But, nevertheless, high school shapes who you are in many ways. I know it must be surreal, being the last graduating class from a school that is no longer going to be there - but I can bet you that once you've settled into the next stage in your life (university, college, working in Woolworths), you'll look back on it affectionately, but you won't desire to go back in time. I take it you're aiming for a career in music? Your Bach G minor was very good!
Kelsey, I like your elf...