High School is over!

My last day of high school was yesterday friday May 15th. It is so weird to think I will not be attending Shawnee Mission East next year, it has gone by so fast it didnt seem like 4 years at all. I really don't know what to think right now because I do believe that my high school years have been the best of my young life so far. I can honestly say my school and my class helped shape me into who I am today. If you went back to middle school and asked me if I was going to nominated for homecoming king I would have laughed in your face, I was the biggest loser ever at Mission Valley.

Looking back I think the thing that started me out on the right foot in high school was running for stuco. I have always been an outgoing person and giving a speech infront of 500 kids of course didn't phase me. I shouldnl't have been up on that stage. I had NO idea what I was doing, I wrote my speech the night before but because of my best friend Brady Anderson and a few other specially placed helpers I won by over 200 votes. I was told it was the biggest margin of victory in a long time.

Overall I will miss high school dearly but I am ready for the next step. I think each of our

 lives is like a sculpture in the works. Every life experience is like God chipping little bits off of our

 stone and sculpting us into who we are suppose to be. I like to think I got a lot of chipping in high school. I would like to say thank you to eveyone who has helped me make it through. I couldn't have done it with out you!

I think this sums up all of my feelings

Song of right now

Song of right now for me: Wavin' Flag- K'naan

To me this song is just an inspiration. chorus just gets me fired up everytime.

"When I get older, I will be stronger,

They'll call me freedom, just like a wavin flag."

The best part about it is actually the artist himself. He has always been clean even while touring with the Marleys. Never touched alcohol and he says he has never smoked anything. He says that he gets a natural high from his music which I can totally relate to. He is also a Simolian rapper which makes him more legit because he had to grow up while there was a war going on around him.

"All Somalis know that gangsterism isn't to brag about. The kids that I was growing up with [in Rexdale] would wear baggy [track] suit pants, and a little jacket from Zellers or something, and they'd walk into school, and all the cool kids would be like, 'Ah, man, look at these Somalis. Yo, you're a punk!' And the other kid won't say nothing, but that kid, probably, has killed fifteen people." - K'naan