It might be weird to write about something that everyone was talking about 3 months ago but I didn't officially graduate high school until about 2 weeks ago and I started college 2 days ago. I think that it is so crazy that all these things happened so close to each other but I am just happy that they happened.
I graduated high school on August 7th with more people than I thought I would. I really did not think that this many people would show up. I am not going to say numbers because I can not think of the correct number right now and I do not want to be wrong. I do have 450 people in my graduating class so you can imagine how many people that were compared to some smaller schools. But the place that we had graduation was very big.
When we first got there we all went into this little area and had to stay in there. It was very hot since we all had our gowns on and masks and it was really hot outside. Then we had to wait in a line and got scanned to make sure we did not have any weapons with us. If you had a phone, keys, or anything extra you had to put them in a little bag to pick up after graduation.
After that, you had to pick up a piece of paper that had your name on it. The class was split up by the alphabet. The first half went one direction and the second half went the other direction. Then we got into rows of 7 people and there were 20 something rows. It felt like we were standing there and waiting forever.
Eventually, we just started walking in a single file line to somewhere. No one knew where we were going because we did not have any instructions at all. All of a sudden we were in the other building where graduation was where we were walking out for graduation. No one really knew we were walking out there until we were about to.
The chairs were all spread apart and apparently we ran out of seats for the graduates so they had to start sitting where the parents were. Overall I feel like I needed that graduation. It was a nice closure to the end of the year and it was nice to see everyone again along with some teachers.