8 years at Edgehill College is now behind me. I'll only be in school for a few more days; for my exams and Prize Day. Then that's it, the end.
The Valedictory Service went well, not as planned, there's a lot that could easily been done better, but it can't be changed now. My speech was fairly good I didn't screw anything up thank god. You can find a copy of my speech with the powerpoint presentation here.
The complete slideshow at the beginning of the service was made by Gavin, so I don't have that available for upload. However, I do have all the pictures in the slideshow and more, and I've zipped them all up for you so you can download and browse them at your leisure. Find the links below.
I've got to say I'm going to miss Edgehill. There have been a lot of crap times, but I'm going to miss all my friends a hell of a lot. It's weird to think that I'm going to be starting uni (hopefully) in September, and I'm not going to get to see them again. Alex will be gone before July. I've had a lot of great times with my friends and I'm gutted that we're all going to be going our seperate ways. I've got used to the people at Edgehill, I know how I can act around them and I know how they behave. I guess it's the closeness that's always hard to let go of in any relationship. I have no doubt at uni that until I make some good friends I'm going to want my old friends back badly.
Tom said it best when he said "You guys are my friends for life and I love you all". I can say with confidence that I'm going to miss mocking things with Tom and Alex. I'm going to miss Tom's sense of humour, his lack of effort in lessons. I'm going to miss Alex's way of twisting everything you say in a humorous way. I'm going to miss Emily's stories and her dilemas. I'm going to miss Helen's cleverness and arguing with her in lessons. I'm going to miss Tim being a fool. I'm going to miss taking the piss out of vegetarian Catherine. I'm going to miss Rachel being stupid and just 'not getting it'. I'm going to miss Gavin pretending he wasn't screwing Hannah in the toilet when he'd been in there for 15 minutes with her and we could see them through the window. I'm going to miss Madikay and his legendary dancing, his accent, his hats and his driving. I'm going to miss Kevin when he doesn't understand stuff and puts on that blank face. I'm going to miss Alex and his sleeping in all his lessons. I'm going to miss Johnny being gay. I'm going to miss Lok and his tights. I'm going to miss Jay and his weird eyes and lack of effort. I'm going to miss Kenneth looking like a mole. I'm going to miss Jacky and his "laaaaa". I'm going to miss taking the piss out of David's lack of English. I'm going to miss Crystal and Pheobe never saying a word, ever. I'll also miss Sam not coming in to school for weeks at time. I'm pretty sure I've forgotten some people so obviously I'm not going to miss them at all...?
So that's it. Tonight we're all going out to celebrate the end of an era in Westward Ho! and Bideford; hopefully I can get some pictures of that if people bring cameras.
Spread this page around to the people of Edgehill, and if you were there, leave a comment. It's a memories page.
Now for the downloads:
More pictures to come later.
Leave your mark and memories on this page; comment.
The Valedictory Service went well, not as planned, there's a lot that could easily been done better, but it can't be changed now. My speech was fairly good I didn't screw anything up thank god. You can find a copy of my speech with the powerpoint presentation here.
The complete slideshow at the beginning of the service was made by Gavin, so I don't have that available for upload. However, I do have all the pictures in the slideshow and more, and I've zipped them all up for you so you can download and browse them at your leisure. Find the links below.
I've got to say I'm going to miss Edgehill. There have been a lot of crap times, but I'm going to miss all my friends a hell of a lot. It's weird to think that I'm going to be starting uni (hopefully) in September, and I'm not going to get to see them again. Alex will be gone before July. I've had a lot of great times with my friends and I'm gutted that we're all going to be going our seperate ways. I've got used to the people at Edgehill, I know how I can act around them and I know how they behave. I guess it's the closeness that's always hard to let go of in any relationship. I have no doubt at uni that until I make some good friends I'm going to want my old friends back badly.
Tom said it best when he said "You guys are my friends for life and I love you all". I can say with confidence that I'm going to miss mocking things with Tom and Alex. I'm going to miss Tom's sense of humour, his lack of effort in lessons. I'm going to miss Alex's way of twisting everything you say in a humorous way. I'm going to miss Emily's stories and her dilemas. I'm going to miss Helen's cleverness and arguing with her in lessons. I'm going to miss Tim being a fool. I'm going to miss taking the piss out of vegetarian Catherine. I'm going to miss Rachel being stupid and just 'not getting it'. I'm going to miss Gavin pretending he wasn't screwing Hannah in the toilet when he'd been in there for 15 minutes with her and we could see them through the window. I'm going to miss Madikay and his legendary dancing, his accent, his hats and his driving. I'm going to miss Kevin when he doesn't understand stuff and puts on that blank face. I'm going to miss Alex and his sleeping in all his lessons. I'm going to miss Johnny being gay. I'm going to miss Lok and his tights. I'm going to miss Jay and his weird eyes and lack of effort. I'm going to miss Kenneth looking like a mole. I'm going to miss Jacky and his "laaaaa". I'm going to miss taking the piss out of David's lack of English. I'm going to miss Crystal and Pheobe never saying a word, ever. I'll also miss Sam not coming in to school for weeks at time. I'm pretty sure I've forgotten some people so obviously I'm not going to miss them at all...?
So that's it. Tonight we're all going out to celebrate the end of an era in Westward Ho! and Bideford; hopefully I can get some pictures of that if people bring cameras.
Spread this page around to the people of Edgehill, and if you were there, leave a comment. It's a memories page.
Now for the downloads:
More pictures to come later.
Leave your mark and memories on this page; comment.
As i've been saying for a few weeks now: We had some great times, it's just that the bad times outnumbered the good times.
In the words of Dickens -
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.
Yeh I'll agree with Sam there. We've had some good times, but recently they seem to have been non-existent, unfortunately. For me everything kinda fell apart in the last week, like someone dying a long and slow death.
I have enjoyed my time at Edgehill and will think postively of the good times, and try not to remember the bad times, the multitude of events which were not so enjoyable.
Nothing happened in that toilet Dan, before you go on about it.
Maybe I'm just getting a reversal of everyone else - they wanted to leave and when the time came were sorry for leaving. I didn't want to leave but now that the time has come it hasn't affected me nearly as much as I expected it to, as I seem to have almost lost touch.
I will endeavour to keep in touch with those I consider friends, and to everone I hope that your education at Edgehill benefits you and that you lead a successful life, whatever that might entail.
So many memories that i cannot possibly write them all down...
there doint seem to be many photos from the our younger years, just the final ones.
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"You guys are my friends for life and I love you all."
What the fuck is that Dan? I say that to everyone and you take it as your own? Yeah, very nice...you must really be proud of stealing someone else's feelings.
"there doint seem to be many photos from the our younger years, just the final ones."
The valedictory was more about the leaving of people in the last two years. We've all grown closer because it's been a small community and I think bring back people in year 9, 8, 7 etc would have overshadowed that.
Tom - I thought it sounded good, I didn't realise when I wrote it that you'd already said that. Was it word for word? I had to delete all my texts in my inbox :( Anyway, see the new edit I've put in. Don't be mad at me :(
Holy shit dude, when did we all get so touchy-feely?
I'm going to say Wednesday night Sam ... it was all touchy feely.
Ah my words are finally acknowledged as my own...damn right.