THE EVE OF GOODBYES

"I’ve got my memories
Always inside of me
But I can’t go back
Back to how it was

I believe now
I’ve come too far
No I can’t go back
Back to how it was

Created for a place
I’ve never known

This is home
Now I’m finally
Where I belong
Where I belong
Yeah, this is home
I’ve been searching
For a place of my own
Now I’ve found it
Maybe this is home
Yeah, this is home

Belief over misery
I’ve seen the enemy
And I won’t go back
Back to how it was

And I got my heart
Set on
What happens next
I got my eyes wide
It’s not over yet
We are miracles
And we’re not alone
Yeah

This is home
Now I’m finally
Where I belong
Where I belong
Yeah, this is home
I’ve been searching
For a place of my own
Now I’ve found it
Maybe this is home
Yeah, this is home

And now after all
My searching
After all my questions
I’m gonna call it home
I got a brand new mindset
I can finally see
The sunset
I’m gonna call it home
Home

This is home
Now I’m finally
Where I belong
Where I belong
Yeah, this is home
I’ve been searching
For a place of my own
Now I’ve found it
Maybe this is home
Yeah, this is home

Now I know
Yeah, this is home

I’ve come too far
And I won’t go back
Yeah, this is home"


~"This is Home" by Switchfoot



My last day of high school is tomorrow. My last day of walking down the hallways at my school, hearing JS yell out "k-funk" and eating lunch on the stairs in the foyer. My last day of sitting in my coach's class, laughing at him because I know more to the story than everyone else. My last day of going to hang out in his room 6th hour with JS and having fun. My last day of walking through the school, past the green lockers and my favorite teachers and my friends, knowing that this hallway belongs to me. That this is my school.

That will be my last day of seeing all those familiar faces, going past the dirty corner, hearing my teammate yell out hello, having people crowd my locker. My last day of my math class trying to get our teacher to get us to leave lunch early. My last day of my friend waiting for me so we can walk into class together. My last day with my fellow classmates. I may not be friends with all of these people, but they are familiar to me; I know their names, faces, personalities. I'm going to miss these people, even the ones that I don't like. They are part of me, part of my school, part of my graduating class.

What I might miss most about high school though, is having a place to belong. I love being able to go to school knowing that there is a group of people who care about the same things I do, who accept me for who I am. My running buddies are the best friends one could have. They've seen me at my best and worst, and they are still my favorite. I have my other school friends, and they are awesome, but they really don't understand my running. They wouldn't understand that I love just talking with my teammates after practice at the bench where all the distance runners seem to be. My fellow squirrels are what I will miss the most. They will be there, and I can talk to them, and run with them, but it won't be the same. I love being part of that team, I love being a scampering squirrel, and I'm going to miss this so much.

At the beginning of the school year, I realized how much I didn't want to leave high school, how much it meant to me. But as it became closer to graduation, the coolness of being a senior sets in and you forget what it really means. That you have to leave the place that has been your home for the past four years and your friends. But it still doesn't seem like I could really have my last day of high school tomorrow. Maybe this is because that I don't want to leave it. But I have to. I will have to walk down those hallways and say goodbye to what has been my home. I'm really going to miss my high school.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3

One of my downfalls is High School Musical. I don't care if people don't like it or think it's dumb. I don't care if it's main audience is 10 year olds (which is so not true). It's a fantastic movie and it makes you believe that anything can come true. High School Musical 2 was good, but I didn't like it as much as the first. It just didn't feel the same. But I've been super excited for High School Musical 3: Senior Year. Probably more excited than I should've been but the previews and commercials just made it look so good. Plus the music videos/previews they've shown on Disney Channel made it look fantastic.

So today I got to see High School Musical 3 and it was amazing. The people weren't all 10 year olds there either. I wore Wildcat colors (it isn't that creepy) to the movie and wore a white sweatshirt so I could do the part in "Now or Never" that they do in the music video. They didn't do that in the movie though which was a little disappointing. It really was a great movie. We've come a long way from High School Musical 1, that's for sure.

This movie was really a love story. It made you believe in fairytales, that there really is that perfect guy and that everything would work out. All the songs in this movie were pretty good, my favorite might be "Can I Have This Dance". The part in the movie is just beautiful.



I also think that Troy is the cutest in this movie. I think that the third one is the funniest. There are some parts where you just have to laugh, like when they are in the tree house or when Rocket Man shows up. "The Boys are Back" song is pretty cool too, I liked the little kids that looked like Troy and Chad, they were cute. Then there are parts which you wish would happen to you, like when Troy shows up in the tree to dance with Gabriella for the prom or when they dance on the roof in the greenhouse. The opening scene was a little dramatic but I think it fit the movie. I also liked how they went farther into Troy and Chad's friendship and how Troy wasn't the cool strong guy or a jerk, but that he was vulnerable. There were parts that I almost started crying at too. When Gabriella says she's not coming back, when Chad is playing in the gym and Troy comes in, and of course at the end, because it was the end of the last High School Musical movie ever. Just knowing that this was the first and last time I would see High School Musical 3 (and Troy) on the big screen, I tried to soak every little thing in, I wanted to remember it all. It fit that this one was on the big screen in the theaters, it was so cool. And who wouldn't want to see Troy on the big screen.

If you come into the movie with the preconcieved notion that it will be bad then you probably will just make fun of the movie. True fans will love it and it might just win over some undecideds. From the mesmerized look on my younger sister's face, who had been waiting for this day for a long time and actually counting down the days, I knew that most will love the movie. I absolutely loved it but you just can't help it. This might even be the best one of the trilogy. It certainly was a fantastic movie.