My Day of Success

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My Day of Success May 10, 2010 English Comp Keidra Perryman On May 21, 2010, a significant event took place in my life; it was my high school graduation, I can remember it like it was yesterday. It was very wind, and it started to drizzle. My graduating class and I lined up inside the school, dressed in our red and black robes in alphabetical order ready to march onto the football field. We were so excited about walking across the stage that we screamed and chanted as our teachers said their final goodbyes and gave their speech about how they all were proud of our accomplishments. After 12, long hard years, we couldn’t believe that it would be all over n a matter of minutes. As the time to march on the field was approaching, my classmates and I reminisced on our 4 years of high school, all of the skip days, parties, get together, food fights, and prep rallies. We promised to each other that we would always keep in touch. Our senior advisor then announced that it was time to make our appearance on the field. Very excited, we all screamed as we marched out the building. As we moved on the field, the bleachers were filled with balloons and our love ones screaming and calling our names. Once I realized that this was it, tears started to roll down my cheeks. We began to walk across the field to our assigned seats as we looked straight ahead at the principal for the signal to be seated. With soft music playing in the background we looked towards the bleachers smiling and waving at everyone. “You may now be seated”, the principal announced. We took our seats and the ceremony began. As the principal started talking we decided to entertain each other by tossing balloons and spraying crazy strings on each other. Once the principal said his speech members of our senior committee took the stand and recited poems and talked about the days w shared. As time passed
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