Overall Theme

I think the theme of my senior year would include hard work, dedication, along with, love, fun, and enjoyment. My senior year has consisted of ups and downs, and fast and slow moments. I would say my senior class as dealt with the most events in a long time at Creekview. I am so grateful for being a Creekview Mustang. While we might not be the best at everything, I don't know another school that can come together as well as Creekview. I want to conclude this Senior Memory Blog by saying that I couldn't be happier with the way my senior year turned out. I have learned so much, but I know that I still have a long way to go. So therefore, the overall theme of my senior year is as follows. There will be challenges, but always enjoy every opportunity presented to you because the best is yet to come.

Inspirational Letter to Holly

Dear Holly, 

This is the letter I wrote to my 6th grade science teacher, Holly Shockley.

 “For you, a thousand times over”
―Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Timeline

This is the Timeline I made in English.

Band Banquet

Band Banquet is an event I look forward to every single year. Ever since my first band banquet my freshman year, I have loved band banquet. It is a time to reminisce on memories and events that happened over the school year and also, for underclassmen, to get excited for the upcoming years. Since this banquet is such an important event to me, I got very happy and sad that this was my last one I was going to attend. I'm glad I made it through all four years in the band program but its sad that I am coming to the end of my high school band experience. It was such a bittersweet emotion. I got to sit with a lot of my senior friends band friends so we all got to experience it together. At band banquet, it didn't really kick in that that was my last one. However, now that I am looking back on that incredible banquet, I am slowly realizing that everything is coming to an end. I think it won't fully hit me until graduation or senior walk when I will not in the band playing the music I have played for the past three years at those events. Every year at the band banquet they play a movie/slideshow with a lot of pictures, that is one of my favorite things at banquet. I was in the first picture in the slideshow!! That never happens. I'm so glad I get to have a copy of that because I know I will be able to watch it when I want to remember my senior band days. In the end, band banquet was a memorable experience this senior year. I'm so blessed that I was able to go to banquet and be apart of the Creekview band program.

Prom

Oh Prom. Most people say it will be the BEST night of your life or THE night to remember. I had a great time at prom but it wasn't the best night ever. I loved my dress so much. I bought it two months before prom, on the first day I went shopping for a dress. I had band banquet the night before prom so I was completely exhausted all day Saturday. I had a hair appointment at 8:30 after a long night. I did my own make up and got myself together. My date was great. He was a friend from band that is a lot of fun and I always have a good time with him. I got to see a lot of my friends and enjoy a fun evening. It was a pretty expensive process but I'm really glad I got to be apart of it. Some of my friends didn't go and I feel like if I hadn't gone, I would have regretted that decision later because I think everyone should go to their senior prom. Prom is such an interesting event. It is designed to be the best experience of your high school experience and so since it is held to such high standards, it can easily not measure up and a lot of students can get disappointed easily. I wanted to experience every part of high school so I'm glad I got to go and have a fantastic time.

Graduation Invitations

I didn't realize how much work graduation invitations are. You have to create party invitations, find addresses and invite people you haven't talked to in ages because they were apart of your life at one time or another. Once the party invitations are finished (they take the longest) you can't forget about the graduation ceremony invitations. Those are the really fancy ones that usually only get send to family members. We only ordered fifty, you think it wouldn't be that difficult right?! Wrong. You have to put them in two envelopes, put a senior picture in them and of course, find more addresses. There always seems to be that one person who you have to send an invitation to but you can't find their address to save your life. It is like they don't even live on planet earth anymore. And remember when I said I took a lot of senior pictures?! Deciding which picture to put in the invitations is extremely difficult. I don't have enough wallet size pictures of one pose to put the same pose in all the invitations so I have to put different pictures in other invitations. Then, some family members get more than one while others just get one. Should I put the fancy, graduation one in the invitation, or the fun, senior picture one? Once all the invitations are sent out, then you have to focus back on the graduation party because people start to RSVP. As much work as this whole graduation process is, I am actually really enjoying it because it means I am almost done with high school. It still doesn't feel like I have been at Creekview for four years. My senior year has flown by and I know the days leading up to graduation are going to fly by as well. I am excited to walk across the stage because then I know I will have finished a chapter in my life and It will be time to start a new one.

Senior Night

Every year at one of the last football games, the seniors in football, cheer, chevals, and of course, the band get recognized for all their work over the last four years. I had seen all my friends from past years get to walk across the football field and get recognized and it was finally my time to do the same. I remember it being extremely cold but I was so excited that I wasn't bothered by the weather. With my last name starting with a T, I was near the end of the band kids getting recognized. I waited my turn and then finally got to go. Even though I just walked across a football field, the same one I had been on SO many times in the past, it was still incredibly special because I got to share it with my family and my band family. During half time, the band still had to perform but the seniors got to wear white plums. Before the red uniforms we wear now, the Creekview band used to wear white uniforms with white plums. Therefore, when the uniforms and directors changed, the band students wanted to remember their past so they got to wear white plums. That tradition has carried through out the years and I'm glad it didn't stop with us. I felt so important because I had wanted to wear that white plum for so long. I had seen my older friends wear them and I felt like it would be forever until I was able to wear the plume. Getting to marching an amazing show, wearing that sparkly, white plume, was a great conclusion to my last marching season. I wouldn't trade that night for anything. It was definitely one of my all time favorite football games.