Graduating Class
So, I finally made it. Two years after I would've graduated in America, I'm finally in my last year of high school. People keep asking me how I feel: Am I excited? Do I just want it to be over? Am I scared? What am I going to do after school? Honestly, I never really know what to say to people when they ask these kinds of questions.
Yes, I'm anxious to get it over with and finally go to college like I should've done two years ago. Yes, I'm scared of the finals and the work I have to do until then. Yes, I'm excited to finally be graduating. After school I'm going to go to college and study tourism management and after that I hope to move back to America work in a hotel for a few years before I can gather up the money to open one of my own. If anyone who's curious about these questions, just read this blog. I can't answer them personally because it's too hard to think about now.
I don't know what's going to happen in May and June. I don't know if I'll freeze or forget or ace every test. I don't know if I'm going to be cool, calm and collected or if I'm going to run out and barf in the girls' bathrooms the moment I open my mouth. I don't know if the work I'm putting in for this is going to be phenomenal, good or crap. I know I'll do my best to make sure it's at least going to get me a passing grade, because one thing I'm absoultely sure of is that I do not want to repeat this in the fall 2011. I'd like to be done with high school at the end of this year so I'm not yet another 9 months behind everyone else.
I picked writing a thesis because I didn't have much of a choice. I didn't pick any electives that I could go into detail in (art and computer science don't exactly give a lot to do), I did not want to cross two subjects because the ones I would've picked would have been too much for me to handle. So I used the only one left: The thesis. I chose English, which might be a little like cheating, I suppose, but that doesn't mean it's not going to be just as hard as any other subject. I chose urban legends because they were on my mind at the moment and I needed a topic I could research over the summer. So I picked one, I ordered books, I'm reading them, I'm thinking about things I could do for my paper.
While I put a lot of thought into what I'm going to do about my thesis, I haven't picked the other two subjects I have to do orally yet. I don't want to pick German because my German isn't good enough and I'd have to write a paper and speak it, and I already have to write three essays during the mandatory written exam anyway. I don't want to pick French because I'm not good at thinking on my feet in French, plus I can't think of any topic I'd want to write about in French. Math might be an option, but what topic could I pick in Math? I'm barely good enough at written tests in Math. But I'm not excluding that option completely. Geography I might pick because I don't think it would be that hard to read through the topics he chooses for us to learn...Plus I'm thinking about taking part in a mini version of the Model UN program, so I'd have something to talk about during the exam instead of writing a paper and presenting it.
So, Math and Geography. I guess both could help me in the hotel business. Math, obviously, and Geography because it helps to know where your guests come from and you need to know about the economy and the world market and all those things...I'll have to talk to the teachers about it, and I'm scared to do that, because the one teacher I did ask about it (Schlüsselqualifikationen, which also wouldn't be a horrible idea, ultimately, because it teachers communication, conflict management, rhetoric and career building) is now hounding me for an answer about my doing this. I don't know! I think I'm going to do Math and Geography. It could be interesting, after all.
And all this talk about final exams and graduation has got me thinking about my graduation present, (which I paid for, but I don't care) my trip to America. I am going to spend 3 weeks in America, visiting family, friends and having a reunion. 1 week will be spent in New York, staying with my grandparents, probably, if not my Aunt Susan and I'm also going to be meeting my two best online buddies for the first time in person in nearly 7 years. We'll travel around the city, go shopping, see sights, and just hang. It'll be awesome. Of course, there's going to be the odd family party on the weekend, which is only natural. Our family loves a good party. xD
A second week will be spent in Pottstown, PA most likely with my sister and her husband, but if not, then I can always crash at one of my friends' houses (although I think I might prefer Phoebe and Andrew's, since is neutral ground and then Mom could come with and visit with Pheebs too). Anyway, that week will be spent lounging around with my best friends that I could never forget. Some of them I will be seeing for the first time since 2006 (4 years!!!) and other I'll be seeing for the first time in seven years. I am so excited about that week I can't even put it in words.
The final week will be in Delaware, at a big week-long family reunion. Family from Canada, Florida, California, Austria, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania will gather on the beach in Delaware and we'll spend a week just being together. I love my family.
The one hitch in my plan was that I had to book the flight in the summer, a year in advance, which meant that I got to choose the least expensive flight. What I didn't remember, though, was that the graduation ceremony had to take place at some point too. It looks like the officials are having trouble deciding whether or not the ceremony will be on Monday, the 27th, the day I leave for America at 11:50 am OR it could be on Tuesday, the 21st, which wouldn't make much sense, since the exams are still going on at that time (they end officially on the 25th).
So, unfortunately, I won't be getting a graduation ceremony. I'll have to send someone to fill my place and receive the diploma for me. Oh well.
It's a small price to pay!
--Cassy
Yes, I'm anxious to get it over with and finally go to college like I should've done two years ago. Yes, I'm scared of the finals and the work I have to do until then. Yes, I'm excited to finally be graduating. After school I'm going to go to college and study tourism management and after that I hope to move back to America work in a hotel for a few years before I can gather up the money to open one of my own. If anyone who's curious about these questions, just read this blog. I can't answer them personally because it's too hard to think about now.
I don't know what's going to happen in May and June. I don't know if I'll freeze or forget or ace every test. I don't know if I'm going to be cool, calm and collected or if I'm going to run out and barf in the girls' bathrooms the moment I open my mouth. I don't know if the work I'm putting in for this is going to be phenomenal, good or crap. I know I'll do my best to make sure it's at least going to get me a passing grade, because one thing I'm absoultely sure of is that I do not want to repeat this in the fall 2011. I'd like to be done with high school at the end of this year so I'm not yet another 9 months behind everyone else.
I picked writing a thesis because I didn't have much of a choice. I didn't pick any electives that I could go into detail in (art and computer science don't exactly give a lot to do), I did not want to cross two subjects because the ones I would've picked would have been too much for me to handle. So I used the only one left: The thesis. I chose English, which might be a little like cheating, I suppose, but that doesn't mean it's not going to be just as hard as any other subject. I chose urban legends because they were on my mind at the moment and I needed a topic I could research over the summer. So I picked one, I ordered books, I'm reading them, I'm thinking about things I could do for my paper.
While I put a lot of thought into what I'm going to do about my thesis, I haven't picked the other two subjects I have to do orally yet. I don't want to pick German because my German isn't good enough and I'd have to write a paper and speak it, and I already have to write three essays during the mandatory written exam anyway. I don't want to pick French because I'm not good at thinking on my feet in French, plus I can't think of any topic I'd want to write about in French. Math might be an option, but what topic could I pick in Math? I'm barely good enough at written tests in Math. But I'm not excluding that option completely. Geography I might pick because I don't think it would be that hard to read through the topics he chooses for us to learn...Plus I'm thinking about taking part in a mini version of the Model UN program, so I'd have something to talk about during the exam instead of writing a paper and presenting it.
So, Math and Geography. I guess both could help me in the hotel business. Math, obviously, and Geography because it helps to know where your guests come from and you need to know about the economy and the world market and all those things...I'll have to talk to the teachers about it, and I'm scared to do that, because the one teacher I did ask about it (Schlüsselqualifikationen, which also wouldn't be a horrible idea, ultimately, because it teachers communication, conflict management, rhetoric and career building) is now hounding me for an answer about my doing this. I don't know! I think I'm going to do Math and Geography. It could be interesting, after all.
And all this talk about final exams and graduation has got me thinking about my graduation present, (which I paid for, but I don't care) my trip to America. I am going to spend 3 weeks in America, visiting family, friends and having a reunion. 1 week will be spent in New York, staying with my grandparents, probably, if not my Aunt Susan and I'm also going to be meeting my two best online buddies for the first time in person in nearly 7 years. We'll travel around the city, go shopping, see sights, and just hang. It'll be awesome. Of course, there's going to be the odd family party on the weekend, which is only natural. Our family loves a good party. xD
A second week will be spent in Pottstown, PA most likely with my sister and her husband, but if not, then I can always crash at one of my friends' houses (although I think I might prefer Phoebe and Andrew's, since is neutral ground and then Mom could come with and visit with Pheebs too). Anyway, that week will be spent lounging around with my best friends that I could never forget. Some of them I will be seeing for the first time since 2006 (4 years!!!) and other I'll be seeing for the first time in seven years. I am so excited about that week I can't even put it in words.
The final week will be in Delaware, at a big week-long family reunion. Family from Canada, Florida, California, Austria, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania will gather on the beach in Delaware and we'll spend a week just being together. I love my family.
The one hitch in my plan was that I had to book the flight in the summer, a year in advance, which meant that I got to choose the least expensive flight. What I didn't remember, though, was that the graduation ceremony had to take place at some point too. It looks like the officials are having trouble deciding whether or not the ceremony will be on Monday, the 27th, the day I leave for America at 11:50 am OR it could be on Tuesday, the 21st, which wouldn't make much sense, since the exams are still going on at that time (they end officially on the 25th).
So, unfortunately, I won't be getting a graduation ceremony. I'll have to send someone to fill my place and receive the diploma for me. Oh well.
It's a small price to pay!
--Cassy
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