Well..it officially started today. Man! I cannot believe it has finally come! It's weird how God prepares you for growing up. I remember just last year thinking, "I'm gonna be a SENIOR?! I don't want to leave my school and people I've known! I'm not ready to leave home and start doing things on my own!" It really used to scare me, but more and more recently I've realized how excited I am to be the big dogs on campus and to be the influencer. I only hope I'm as good as some of the wonderful people I've looked up to my entire CAC career. I realized I'm excited to be the graduating class and move onto college and start something new.
It's kinda like how you're ready at the beginning of each new season. When summer starts I think, "YES! School's out! I can go swimming all I want! Man, I never want to go back to school!" But then before I know it I'm ready for cooler weather, football season and school to start again.
Today, after our first day of Senior year--the "Amazing Race" scavenger hunt and seeing all of our school friends again, we finally got to lunch and all got a little notecard to write our goals on as a Senior and we get it back at the end of the year at our Senior breakfast and see how we did. At the time I was kinda focused on the school aspect of things like..
• getting good grades and trying hard.
• being in at least 1 more school play.
• leading an all girls chapel.
but then I began to realize that my goals could go much deeper to things like...
• making new relationships with the underclassmen and
• being a positive influence for them to look up to.
so these are my goals for my Senior year...
not just to focus all on school and be worried about everyone there and what they think of me or..if I'm friends with everyone? do we have enough memories to look back on? although those are great things it's not the point, and it's not going to be my top priority Senior year. My goal is to be the best I can be for God. Put Him first in everything I do, and to make Him proud. By doing that I'll achieve more than ever and influence not just the students but even my teachers in the way I live for Him. He's all that matters and I want everyone to feel the way I do about Him.
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Cool. I know what you mean, today I went to buy my locker and parking pass and when I said "11th" for grade, me and my mom were overwhelmed.... Haha. I'm really not at all attached to my school friends, so I'm mostly anticipating being away from home for 4 years. I had a hard time being away for 2 weeks last summer. LOL! I love it that you said:
"By doing that I'll achieve more than ever and influence not just the students but even my teachers in the way I live for Him. He's all that matters and I want everyone to feel the way I do about Him."
That is awesome. Very cool about influencing your teachers. Good luck this year!
Cool. I know what you mean, today I went to buy my locker and parking pass and when I said "11th" for grade, me and my mom were overwhelmed.... Haha. I'm really not at all attached to my school friends, so I'm mostly anticipating being away from home for 4 years. I had a hard time being away for 2 weeks last summer. LOL! I love it that you said:
"By doing that I'll achieve more than ever and influence not just the students but even my teachers in the way I live for Him. He's all that matters and I want everyone to feel the way I do about Him."
That is awesome. Very cool about influencing your teachers. Good luck this year!
It's so much cooler and better than you can imagine it will be. Here I am more than two years after the fact, and I still am realizing ways in which that year was even more amazing than I knew when I was first going through it.
I'm glad the school kicked up the activities a notch for you. I've been wondering if they would ever do that for another senior class.
Good luck with the year! You've got the right attitude, so I'm sure it will be amazing!
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