If you've noticed by my title and read the last post, you'll know that I am posting because I am done with school! No more finals or AP tests, I graduate on May 15th, until then I have nothing to do. Now I can focus on learning Turkish, but it's not all fun and I'm not terribly happy to be graduating, it's really bittersweet. In the past four years I have met incredible people (both students and teachers) and it'll be really hard to leave. So I'm just going to go through the craziness of these past two weeks!
Monday, April 29th- I had my last orchestra concert this day. It was really fun, I preformed a violin trio on my viola with two other lovely ladies, and of course I played in the group, watched my sister play her cello in her quartet. Since we were seniors, we got to where whatever we wanted, instead of concert black, it was so much fun! Also there is this girl who is a junior and she is a violin virtuoso. I'm not kidding or exaggeration. She's been in all state, all northwest and this summer is playing with a national youth orchestra in Carnegie Hall. She is amazing, anyway I watched her preform a solo and needless to say, it was awesome! Here are some pictures from that night:
From left to right: Mariah, Haley, Jorge (pronounced like George), Kendall, me, and Gene. These were all the seniors in orchestra this year! It's been great, we've all become close over four years, you guys are awesome!
The lovely senior ladies who are all my friends and awesome! In order from left to right: me, Kendall, Haley, Mariah. I love you all so much!
Tuesday, April 30th- This day was honor graduation at my school! My sister and I are both graduating with honors meaning we've kept a cumulative 3.5 GPA or above! It was really fun because there are about seventy people graduating with honors out of our class. Our class consists of about 380 people. The students got to talk and thank people, it was really neat to see everyone speak, especially considering I knew most people there! We also got an honor cord, which is super cool! It was really fun, unfortunately I didn't get any pictures from this event, but it was still awesome!
Wednesday, May 1st- I had nothing going on this day, except normal school, it was probably fun, but I don't remember much about it. It was my only not busy day out of the week!
Thursday, May 2nd- I had the annual awards ceremony for the organization I volunteer with. It was great, not a lot of people showed up, though, except younger kids. We're a youth organization and take volunteers from 7th-12th grade. Anyway, but I did get a lot of awards, including a $500 scholarship, which they only gave to three other seniors. So that was awesome, again I didn't take any pictures, oh well, I'll remember it!
Friday, May 3rd- Since all of the music concerts are finished (except for graduation), we had a music department awards banquet. It was fun, but really long with a lot of people. However everyone got these dream catchers, which are hand made by a native organization, with beads representing the different things people have done in band, orchestra, and choir. It was really nice and my sister won a national orchestra award, I was so happy for her, even though she didn't think she deserved it, she definitely did.
Then there was the weekend, not much happened, just work and homework and music lessons, it was nice to have a bit of a break. I'm also doing really well at work, so that is awesome!
Monday, May 6th- So again, not much happened that day, it was just school and homework. I think it was pretty relaxing, except I was nervous about something.
Tuesday, May 7th- The thing I was nervous about was the AP Spanish test. I wanted to do really well on this test because I want to major in Spanish and international relations in college. I think I got either a three or four. I didn't have time to answer a lot of the multiple choice questions, but I did well enough not to get a one or two on the free response questions. Also this day I went to the library to practice with my oral final group for our philosophy final (our final is a group oral final that lasts fifty minuets). It was fun, but I was drained after. At the library we decided to map out quick notes on all of the papers on the white board. Here was the result:
Before Mapping out all the papers.
After mapping. There is also a lot of randomness on the board because the person we elected as writer went crazy and drew randomness on it (she had a Rockstar as we were working).
Wednesday, May 8th- For AP Spanish we had a rest day ans my teacher (whom I've had for three years) brought in amazing food for all of us, including warm chai tea! I am such a tea person and am so excited to try Turkish tea in Turkey! Anyway I also had my oral final in philosophy that day. It went pretty well, I had been nervous about this all year though, it was forty per-cent of our total grade. I was expecting to get a B, but I checked my grades online and it turns out I got 50/50! I was not expecting that at all. This day was also the day when seniors had to clean out their lockers! I have pictures of things:
The lovely food my Spanish teacher brought for us!
More food!
The outside of my locker before I cleaned it! The signs are for swimming (top) and cross-country skiing (bottom).
The inside of my locker before I cleaned it.
The outside of my locker after I cleaned it.
The inside of my locker after I cleaned it, it looks so different!
Thursday, May 9th- So in order to do this I need to explain something, first. There is this program in my school called the seminar program or the seminar school. It is based off of the Socratic method for English classes and they count as honors classes. For an English class there are freshmen, sophomores juniors, and seniors in the same English class, five teachers teach English for this program and there are about 200 students in it. We have a lot of focus on community and I have a close relationship with all of the teachers in this program. There are two senior philosophy classes that are part of this program. Every year, the seniors of this program stand up on our school stage and do whatever they want to do, with everyone else watching. We call them senior statements. So on Thursday, I had mine and they were so emotional. I was the last to go and (partially because of everyone else's) I broke down crying, thanking my sister (who is also part of the program) for everything. It was really emotional and apparently I made a lot of people cried. Even my philosophy teacher was teary-eyed at the end. We also had seminar graduation that evening! All of the teachers who are part of the program gave us awards and it was great. I meant to bring my camera and yearbook, but unfortunately I forgot both. Anyway it was fun and emotional. I got the monkey award, the point of this award is that the monkey is irrepressible, like me, so that was super sweet!
Friday, May 10th- I had a math test first hour today and I did way better than I thought, considering I didn't study nor understand the concept. We also had a half day and I went down to watch the other classes senior statements. They were fun, but no where near as emotional as ours. All the seniors had graduation practice and then we were dismissed. They also locked us out of the school, but I got back in because I dropped a note a teacher gave me. I then went and had other teacher sign my yearbook, quickly and left. I walked home with my sister and her boyfriend and we ate lunch at Subway. The walk was nice and I had a relaxing afternoon, watching T.V and reading everything on Facebook.
So that's been my life these past two weeks! I hope you can tell that I've been too busy to update, hopefully I'll find time to update in Turkey! Anyway I will probably update next Friday, I might not be able to because my grandma is coming into town on this Monday for graduation! I graduate on May 15th, which is really weird. Anyways, I will definitely update about graduation and everything I do while my grandma is in town. After that I promise this blog will be more Turkey related.
Till next time,
-Sarah
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