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"My Last Day Of School..."

...has just passed.

To be honest, I'm not really a very emotional guy. Most things don't really bother me as such, and I've always got the view that what happens happens, and you can't change it, so don't let it get to you.

But today was different.

Seeing people for the very last time that you've known for 5 years isn't a great experience; it's genuinely upsetting. You go to say goodbye to someone you remember upsetting at some point, and it really hurts, it's weird, you suddenly want to make it right, but there's no time to.

The cool thing was the whole 'as one' feel. I've never seen so much love and friendship in one place. Boys and girls both in tears, some covered with egg and flour (you know how last days go), some just hugging people and refusing to let go. My torso is cloaked in goodbye messages, as is everyone's shirts, and everyone is together.

I know it all sounds a bit soppy realy, and it probably is, but it was just so unexpected. Even though I'll probably see half of my mates in the exams next week, it still felt awful saying goodbye to them.

There isn't really much else to say. Just thought I'd share the experience with you all. Heh, I can feel the tears welling as I write this, I kid you not.

Goatboy wrote:
> Aw bless.
> And after college/uni, you'll be tossed into a world of bills, debt
> & trying to keep your head above water whilst everybody else
> tries to push you under. A world where exams & qualifications
> dont count for anything.

You're going to be one fine teacher.

But you do speak the thruth, it's cruel, and no one cares.

Dispute... did you visit Edinburgh uni earlier in the year like we did, lasted a week just to give you a taster of it.

Well, i'm into my exam period of my final year (2 down, 2 to go) but I think bizarrely that I will miss my school. I've really enjoyed my final year especially as I'm scottish and no work is in fact needed for university requirement :-). But we've still got Leavers courses (paintballing, bowling, etc) to mess about with my year who are frankly so entertaining. Plus we're organising a holiday for a bunch of us that the school will organise around which is nice. And lots are going to the same uni as me (Edinburgh) which is nice but there are tons of people I shall miss. I guess I'm really lucky in the fact that I like almost everyone in my yeargroup and shall probably miss my school years. Plus the food from the canteen was actually amazingly good. Best baguettes ever.

Personally im glad to see the back of the place. My last days were pretty poo, first off as it was coming up to exams we had to work extra hard. Then I had my "future plans" meeting with a member of the SMT, at which I got a bollockin' becuase I said I'd rather goto the college thats 5 minutes down the road apposed to all the hassle associated with getting up at 6am in order to catch a bus that takes 45 mins to reach its destination. During my last week I also got 5 after school detentions and the reason behind them were crap... "to improve performance in past exam papers" that's the kind of thing you get asked if you wouldn't mind staying back for but meh... I think when they know you will be leaving they treat you bad. Still, the during school hours drink fest was all pretty good.

I'm not bothered about leaving. Sure, I've had a few decent times at school but I've had infinitely more bad ones. I know when I wake up and don't have to haul my ass out of bed on Monday morning to go to the one place that I hate most, that leaving school is nothing to feel bad about.

It doesn't really bother me that I'll never see a lot of the people again. I made a lot of acquaintances at school, but the only people I really want to see in the future are my closest friends. I've got a shirt full of signatures and messages to remember everyone else by.

And seeing Poopots (we go to the same school) wreck his bike was an awesome and hilarious way to end my school life.

Aw bless.
And after college/uni, you'll be tossed into a world of bills, debt & trying to keep your head above water whilst everybody else tries to push you under. A world where exams & qualifications dont count for anything.

Finish Sixth Form next Friday.

Will be pretty wierd, but it'll be good.

I finished uni a week ago and it seemed a bit sudden, it was like oh right it's over, and we rented out a bar for the night and drank ourselves silly, will be strange not seeing alot of them again but to be honest the way uni was i was only in uni 10 hours tops a week.

School and college there was much more of a build up to the end of them and we good when they finished, but i knew with each of them i had something to go on to,

School-College-Uni

Now i am just looking to get a job in london and to hear back from a games company about work experience.

Ours was quite an amusing day, as it was a casual dress day most people had there shirts signed Thursday. There’re certain people I will miss that were school friends rather than people you would hang around with outside of school. Apart from that I couldn’t care less about everybody else, but the atmosphere for the leavers assembly was magnificent, much like yours.

As I rode my old bike to school that day, with the intentions of trashing it, we took it down to our local shop which we normally go to for lunch. We absolutely killed it but the owners phoned the police so we took of with what was left of the evidence and dumped it in a field.

When I finished Year 11, yeah, I was genuinely upset. Lots of people who I was going to miss, but a lot I'd still see in the 6th Form.

Over the last two years most of my closer friends have left 6th Form too, so when I leave at the end of next week I won't be so bothered.