2001-06-03 - 9:13 p.m.
yesterday was graduation. it seemed shorter than i expected. it was... an experience. man... setting up in the middle of the day is hard work. it's pretty damn warm out there. nah, but i was hardly working so it didnt much matter.
oh, but the grad ceremonies was nice. from the beginning of the ceremonies inside the auditorium, through the march down to the field which i was concernd about, to the seating of the class- which i fucked up-, and the too few chairs in the last row. yeah, i dont know if any of you noticed from the stands, but in the last row of boys seats, we were short about... oh, six seats. so, me and miss freitas had to scrable and get three more seats cause we stole three seats from the people who were supposed to hand out diplomas. yup. that was fucked. me and corey were kinda like... "oh shit... what do we do now? okay, just stand there for now... we'll get you guys seats in a second. there you go..." it was pretty f-ed up.
after that... the grad ceremonies commenced. it was pretty good. the colored pigeons was a nice touch. and the speeches weren't that long. except for casey's speech. that one ran kinda long, but it was okay none-the-less. and then the graduates were accepted.
this is where it got fun. aaron and i were standing at the head of the group telling the graduates to step up to the base of the platform to accept their diplomas. so, me being on the guys side, i got to see all my senior male friends one last time before they became young adults so to speak. it was great. i shook hands with a many of them, i even got a hug from a few. some of them being danny... jason nagamine, and dae won. i shook hands with guys like steven lee, steven ly, joey shimabuku, john takizawa... it was just great seeing them one last time as high schoolers. as they finished recieving their diplomas, the four of us marshals went back to our spots behind the graduates. so we were standing there and they eventually got up to sing their class song "lean on me" which they sang greatly, and then they sang the alma mater, and it was jon and corey's turn to lead the class off the field and onto the track. and, this was the first time i saw many of them after they graduated. since corey and jon were leading the class, aaron and i were in the back of the line. so i got to see them as they left their seats to get off the field and onto the track. again, i shook hands with many of them, vernon, aaron kozuki, aaron mizushima, danny again, john again, etc. so forth and so on. and then i got to the last row with dae won and jason. dae won came first and we exchanged high fives and hugs, and then jason, the very last graduate comes up to me, we exchange handshakes/high-fives and then he BEARhugs me. he lifts me in the air and holds me there for a few seconds infront of the crowd of people. but it didnt matter because it was his moment, not mine. this is the shit memeories are made of. i'm really gonna miss those guys. next year, it'll be our turn boys and girls. next year, we too will become young adults. well, most of us (hopefully) anyway. some of us will even become important. but, for the most part, that summer will be our last one together. it's next year that we will all be the leaders of the school. picking on freshmen, and juniors alike. as well as the sophomores who will have the worst year of their high school life. it is our turn to shine and become the fuckheads of the school.
well, enough rhetoric...
one funny thing that did happen during the commencement ceremony was when casey fell off the stage. he was helping hand out the diplomas when i guess he took too far a step back and fell of the stage. that was funny.
okay... after all the hype from graduation ended, and the seniors started to leave for project grad, i went to oki's house. i spent the night there and well, we were up playing video games, surfing the net, and drinking sodas. i also managed to look through the sports illustrated swim suit issue too. ;-) and well, before i knew it it was 3 am. so i decided to call it quits at about 310 and went to sleep by 330. then i slept all the way till about 1050 which is a feat for me. then we ate breakfast of portugese sausage, eggs, and rice. and after scarfing it down as fast as we could we went to walk to pearl ridge to get there by 1 pm. we left the house at 1250. we eventually got there half soaked by the rain that was off and on and constantly threatening to melt the gel in our hair at 115 pm. it was fun. i got to waste $4.50 on the mummy returns... which i had already seen. and i also got to meet a snobbish girl who thinks i'm annoying and had pre-judged me as "not funny" when we all know i'm a funny fuck. i dont know... i think it was a day wasted. but... oh well.
i leve for the air force school on sunday. i dont really want to go. it's one week from now. i have math hw up until the last full day of school. i hate this. i dont want to go to the air force school. i said that already, didnt i? i really dont want to. especially, not with epiphani. i dont think she'll take it seriously enough. i can understand why sergeant wants her to go, she'll never get another chance at an academy if she doesn't go to this one, so it benefits her, but i dont know if it benefits roosevelt or myself. yeah, that sounds so self-centered, but you have to understand that i asked to go to this course and last year i went to the marine corps school with tiffany and deyson and the both of them are good people and the three of us made roosevelt look great. infact we did so good, that they invivted us to return as staff. so i have high standards to live up to. and i dont know if epiphani has the military bearing to do it. i dont want to make myself or roosevelt look bad because of her lack of discipline. sure, i make myself sound all hardcore and shit when i'm not, but its just... i think shes worse at that shit than me. i dont know... maybe she'll suprise me and become honor graduate... hopefully thats how it goes. hopefully i get an award too. last year, at marine corps. leadership school, i was the only roosevelt fuck who didnt get anything. well, then again, it was two out of three that did get, deyson and tiffany got highest p.t. score, i got the higher grade out of the three of us. i dont know... maybe i'll get something. hopefully i do. i need to boost my ego here.
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