A New Chapter, so they call it

I have graduated. And boy, was the day and week itself an adventure! Let me explain how this went.

Monday: The Elephant Walk, it's where all the grads get dressed in their cap and gowns and go prancing through their old elementary schools. You walk through the halls as the kids clap for you and you see some of your old teachers. An interesting journey as the girl infront of me told all the little girls to not get boyfriends and to do their homework. Already laughing, I hear a young girl respond to her "Don't get a boyfriend" comment as she says, "Too late." Oh goodness.

Eventually we all hop on the bus again and head to our old middle school. But because of final exams we couldn't see all our favorite teachers, but I did come across my friend's mom whom taught me for a few weeks before I was switched to another class. She hugged me and from what I understand was already in tears when she saw her son walk down a couple of hundred people behind me. :")

Regrouping at the highschool, we joined hands one last time and walked through the halls of our school. Students gathered over arch ways and walls, I have to admit it was pretty amazing. We called it a day and went home.

Tuesday: Rehearsal, there were over 600 chairs lined up in the gym with name tags for us. This was exactly how it would look at the actual thing. The process seemed to take forever! You would think it was easy for people to shake hands and then keep walking. Our principle went over several rules as to was going to happen. No piercings or casual clothes. I could dress up, no problem there, but I had a piercing in. :/ Putting that in the back of my head we headed to Live Oak park and enjoyed a picnic. I got lost on the way there a few times, and due to my lack emotional stability, I cried and yet my poor boyfriend had to deal with me, he wouldn't use those words though :) He calmed me down and helped me figure out how to get there. Which makes me happy, cause I would've lost it if we were yelling at eachother! By the end of the day we were tired though.

Wednesday: Graduation Day!! But we have rehearsal at the Alamodome first. We're told to be there by 8am. HAH! They say buses will be at the school at 7am to take us there if we don't wanna drive. I chose that route. Unfortunately Judson didn't seem to think so many seniors wouldn't wanna drive, so we had to wait about an hour for more buses to come and get us. This rehearsal had gone a little faster than the day before. But there was still so much to do! I had to drive to San Pedro road to find the tattoo shop that gave me my monroe piercing. They took it out and put a clear one in, I went and got a cute dress and got ready to go when I got home. Soon enough I was driving downtown to my graduation where all 665 of us were to walk the stage! Crazy. Crazy everywhere. My feet were killing me, my boyfriend thought I looked amazing :) The ceremony didn't take as long as expected, it was loud and fun and sentimental. My parents left after I walked the stage, so I went to go look for my guy, who was looking for his family, who was looking for him. It took a good 30 minutes or so...I met the rest of his family and I was then invited to Sean's graduation party the following Friday. On my way out of the Alamodome, I became lost. I called my daddy who drove all the way down to save me, I made it back on the highway and headed to project graduation. Which was kind of a let down, we all became bored. And due to certain parts of the month I became a little more emotionally unstable than usual. I got upset with Sean and then it was fine, we tried to sleep in the bleachers and rested heads on each other every now and then. :)
Thursday: I woke up from our bleacher nap around 3am. It was our one month day thingy, we were too tired to really celebrate, just shared a few kisses and then we all eventually went home.
Friday: I didn't really do anything that day besides go to a graduation party at Dave and Buster's. Which was a blast! I drove my man home, he asked if I knew the way...I really didn't but I figured it out :) I listened to him talk the whole time, and I just love it. I could listen to all of it, as I did, but I like it when it's just us and we have "moments" together. We said goodnight and I went home, work the next day. Boo.

But during all of this, it was fun, and I've learned so much, but this was just a small chapter of my life, and I cannot wait to read the rest :)