Recap: Into the Real World

First of all, I'd like to thank all my friends for a WONDERFUL ...what was it...8-8...so twelve hour "evening". It was awesome, more fun than I thought possible for a grad night event, and makes me infinitely glad that I did not chose to go to the school's grad night event.

I have great friends. If you're one of those great people, take the moment and give yourself a pat on the back. Thanks you guys. A lot.

Also thanks to my parents who came, on time, and bought me FLOWERS. (FYI- Asian family don't usually do flowers, neither do they do hugs, which my mother suddenly decided to do yesterday. She was so much more excited than I am; it was interesting.)

Graduation ceremony was a bit disappointing for me first because the practice have completely killed off all sentiments I may have had, which I didn't have that much to begin with. I kept waiting for some sort of emotions to well up, but it never really did. Right after graduation was sort of awkward for me because a lot of the seniors were randomly going around hugging each other and knowing me, you can probably guess what I did: stood stiffly and tried not to feel too awkward.

Went over to Lucy's afterward and had food. Lots of food. (Thanks for putting up with my veggie option, everyone. I'll try to get the memory of physio out of my head as soon as I can.) Watched movies, watched both Kates and Lucy goof around (more entertaining than movies in some cases). At around ten at night we went to one of the barbecue places that we dubbed the "crematorium" and burnt homework (yep I got pictures). It was very emotionally relieving, and for the sheer heck of it (I think we're high on oxygen or something) we were chanting "no more homework" over and over again (not too loud because we did NOT want to attract unwanted attention) and for a brief moment we even ran around the crematorium in an odd cult-like activity (suggested by Kateryna).

Then Christine left when Soniya came, and Kate and I went with Christine while she waited for her father. We saluted them when Christine left because we were there to prove that Christine wasn't waiting in front of the dark school alone and felt that we should perform our honorary duty as her guards or something. Went back and sprinted for a bit for fun and my night vision was so bad I tripped and fell. (At least I didn't do that during the graduation.) Then I knocked over the M&M container while at Lucy's...but at least I wasn't the only person knocking things over, so that was ...more acceptable, I guess.

Watched movies and had snack whenever we felt like it all night, all the way till this morning when I left. (Ice cream at 3am! I've never had ice cream at 3am before! Great moments.) Now I'm at home, finishing uploading all my pictures that I've taken (Yes, they're done, under both "yearbook 2005" and "random stuff". So glad I took backup pics this time, because a lot of the stuff were very blurry due to my slow camera.)while listening to the CD that Kate'd made for everyone (Thanks Kate, the songs are great and the timing is just right!). I haven't slept at all since when I got up at 6 30 yesterday and I think I'm doing a reasonable job of being coherent.

Oh and if you noticed the sudden appearance of proper capitalization, that's partially because too many people have told me how I'm 'legally' an 'adult' now and the irony is getting to me. This is the semblance we must keep in the face of the world. We can pretend to be adults and still stay the same because, you know what, changes like that don't usually happen overnight. (Especially freaky for me because I was awake the whole night.) Also, I figured I own something to my readers to try to make their reading a bit easier. Hope it helps.

Overly long rant, but, of course, no one was required to read the entire thing. If you did, good job!