This is my last summer at home before heading off to college, so what must I do? Yes! Create a blog and document every day of my summer! From photos to journal entries, this blog will be a way to keep my amazing memories from fading and share my life with others!
Two of my best friends were over today making bucket lists while sitting on my bed and they inspired me to come up with my own, so that will be posted asap. I already have a small list going, but I definitely have a lot I want to do before heading off to college, so it may be a very long list!
Last summer I took one picture every day, but that was a little stressful too keep up with.keep interesting (especially if all I did was sit around and watch TV), so this summer will be a combination of both pictures and words (and maybe even videos, if that works)!
I'm looking forward to sharing the next few months with you, but before we embark on this adventure, I feel that it would be prudent to get you up to date on the first three days of summer that this blog missed out on!
Saturday, June 1st:
Graduation day. What a big day! I attended The King's Academy in Sunnyvale and absolutely adored every minute on campus (and off, attending one of the many awesome activities my school provided)! I will miss going to that little community 5/7 days of the week, but it is time to move on, as hard as that is to accept.
Well, my day started with an empty house. No, not because I live alone, but because my parents and grandma had already left to get prime seats on the football field! So I got ready, donned my light-weight, dark blue graduation gown, and slung my many awards over my shoulders before heading out the door.
Despite the many warnings of heat and sunburns, I didn't put any sunscreen on. Luckily it wasn't hellish and I didn't even get burned! Whoot! No burns for me is impressive, I burn REALLY easily, like a pasty princess who has never seen the sun.
The ceremony was nice, not too long (as my graduating class was only ~150) and I only teared up once. Props to fellow alumnus J who sang a beautiful song he wrote himself. My actual diploma-reciving was a bit anticlimactic to be honest, although I did get some attention by fixing the principle's stole, which had been set off-center by the wind (later, four or five teachers thanked me, funny right?).
The rite-of-passage throwing of the caps was probably my favorite part. I threw mine so high it got caught by the wind and carried too far away for me to retrieve it before walking back down the aisle. Well, I got it later, so I'm glad I gave it my all.
I would later describe the following quad masses as a frozen stampede. There were hundreds of people packed into our relatively small quad, and it took me a good ten minutes to find my family, and another hour and a half to get a small percentage of the pictures I wanted to get with my friends!
I attended three grad parties that afternoon/evening before heading back to school for Grad Night. I think I can count Grad Night as June 2nd, because 6 of the 8 hours occurred there, so here we go:
Sunday, June 2nd:
Grad Night. Fun, but not all that it was chalked up to be. I feel pretty bad saying that, but it's how I feel. There were a good amount of things to do, but I missed out on a bunch of them because I was under the impression they'd be open all night and then they closed around one thirty... Poor planning, or mal information, I don't know, but either way, that was a disappointment! Luckily I finally found something that I really enjoyed: swing dancing with my friends! Whooo!
I'd say more on the subject of Grad Night, but the whole affair is pretty hush hush at King's, so I gotta keep my lips sealed on the specifics. I got a lot of gifts from friends, family, and King's, and in return, I, like a rebel, climbed on the roof to watch the sun rise with my bestie.
When we were released (6am), a few of us went over to Coco's and had a sub-par breakfast, but I guess the point was the company, not the food, so that was fine. After breakfast I went home and slept until 2, but was still a complete zombie while attending another grad party for a pair of friends at a park.
The King's Academy has a bit of a strict dress code, which includes piercings on the face, unnaturally color hair, and shorts, and a common occurrence for lots of students who graduate is to "rebel" and do something they couldn't ever do in their (potentially) seven years at King's. I sorta went along with the stereotype in this case, as that night I went to the Fatty Zone on El Camino in Mountain View and got a nose stud. It hurt a tad, but was totally worth the pinch to be a badass.
Overall a good day - it had my approval.
Monday, June 3rd:
I woke up excruciatingly early on Monday morning to have breakfast with my mom and grandma before taking my gram to the bus station. I ran some errands with my mom and then drove over to my friend's house to watch the high school graduation episode of Gilmore Girls (our guilty pleasure show) for sentimentality's sake. After that, we headed over to my fifth grad party in three days at Las Palmas Park in Sunnyvale. I enjoyed the looks on all of my friends' faces when they saw my nose, it was priceless (well, actually $52, but nobody is counting). We headed back to the hosts' house when it got cold at the park and played a fun game that I had never heard of before. Unfortunately I can't remember what it was called, but there was a question and we all answered it on a slip of paper, and then everyone tried to guess who wrote which answer. It was pretty chaotic because we had so many people playing, so eventually we switched to just sharing our answers and getting conversations rolling. It was a fun night to celebrate our friends' graduation!
Fortunately the fun didn't end there! I invited a couple of the girls to sleep over, so we went back to my house and watched the beginning of Mulan and drank tea and just had a good time together! We didn't get to sleep until like, one, which seemed really late to us, who were still getting over tiredness from Grad Night!
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Okay! Well, now you're up to date! Except for today that is. But this post is already so long, I think I'll do a new one for only today! I hope I didn't bore you too much! If you read all of this, I'm actually impressed...
Keep it classy!
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