June 5, 2006
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The Daily News
1 Today's the first day the Seniors aren't here. They had their sunset last night and of all the things that the Class of '05 did as a class, I think that the sunset meant the most to me. The Class of '06 had the rally Friday and it all really hit home with me; I'm going to miss this class very much.
2 This whole week is all about the Class of '06 even though they are technically gone. Today is their picnic and Wednesday is graduation, SO hard to believe.
3 It's an emotional time no matter how much we try to avoid it. We come in and try to walk around as though it's normal, but Friday was officially the last thing even resembling normal for the school year.
4 Even the DN is going to go into its summer hibernation shortly. I don't quite know what I'm going to do with myself every night at 2 or 3 a.m. when I'm normally combing the internet for fun pictures or sighing down the wind so sadly, or writing pieces about rain and umbrellas and all.
5 Maybe getting my sanity back if I ever HAD any.
6 Anyway today is traditionally a ghost town. The Seniors will be gone, and it's almost as though the school must begin and end each year as a ghost town.
7 I feel that I finally got over missing my own class, and now another class is moving off to take on the world.
8 I've had a few memories loosed again. For the longest while I've been enjoying life and really starting to live and enjoy everything again, but as of Wednesday night when the music kids had their last concert, and Thursday when Mrs. Hooper announced she's leaving, and THEN Friday's rally, it all has come rushing back.
9 The nice thing is that it's almost summer, so I'll also be enjoying a few months off. For once, or maybe twice, I feel I worked for it this year.
10 I'm also in a sort of fun frame of mind because my own class is returning from college and I really look forward to seeing those guys again!
11 Still, this last week is always an emotional one for the entire school. I saw kids breaking down crying on Friday, friends hugging, or holding on for dear life, and the Seniors walking everywhere like the war wounded, many with stares of utter disbelief. I remember it well.
12 Two of us mending fences, life commences, on our way back home.
13 We're on our way home. We're on our way home.
14 We're goin' home.
15 That's a line I wrote to an already existing Beatles song. Some nerve.
16 The chorus goes like this:
You and I have memories
longer than the road that stretches out ahead...
17 Two of us wearing raincoats standing so low in the sun.
18 You and me chasing paper.
19 Getting nowhere on our way back home.
20 We're on our way home.
21 We're on our way home.
22 We're going home.
23 So to the Class of '06: today is your day. This week is your week. We salute you as you move forth.
24 Go forward with confidence.
25 Go out and become heroes and then come home.
26 YB ain't going anywhere.
27 We love you guys.
28 Peace.
Thanks for letting me steal these pictures Helen!
~H~
