24 Days!

Really, this is amazing! Not only do I basically have the day off of school (meaning that I have school, and the teachers are toying with the idea of making us learn, but in the end they're not doing it because none of us are paying attention anyway) but we're having this huge Turkey lunch and my school, in an astonishing burst of charity, is giving us an hour for lunch! Well, technically it's 55 minutes, but then we have 5 minutes to get to class, so it's an hour. So classes are short, lunch is good, and it's my last day of school this week! (Not to mention that we got fresh cinamon rolls in seminary this morning.) Does life get better? I submit that it does not!

But that's not really what I wanted to talk about, that was more just a sidebar of excitement I had to throw in because I just found out about it and it's exciting!

What I really wanted to talk about is that there are only 24 days left in my life before I graduate high school. Before I'm done forever! And if we're going by actual days of school there are only 16!!! I am so excited! I can't wait to graduate, move on, go to college, grow up (to a certain extent anyway), and live life!

But at the same token I'm starting to feel some portions of that sadness--I look around at the people and things I'll be missing. I'll miss my English teachers little quirks, I'll miss Mr. Stohel's sarcastic comments (not that I won't get them at home). I'll miss my seminary class but most especially my seminary teacher.

I'm excited to move on, but I'm leaving so much behind. I mean, I'll come back and I'll visit every now and then and probably much sooner than I expect I won't miss any of it. I'll just be done and never really come back- it'll be a corner in my memory that was a good and fun part of my life, but definately over.

I'm just curious as to how soon that will come, because right now I'm starting to feel small pangs of sadness.

Not really, truly, deeply sad- but small pangs are definately there.

And yet I'm so excited to leave! I've been counting down since there were 42 school days and who knows how many actual days! I'm so excited to be done with the politics and some of the silly rules, and the dress code and the whole "young, immature, silly" air that people assume you have and are when you're a part of high school. I'm excited to being able to be taken more seriously and be more adultish.

Ah, I can't wait!