Salutatorian Speech
Salutatorian Speech
Good evening class of 2017!
Administration, teachers, family and friends, thank you for being here to celebrate special occasion. Before I start, I would like to take a moment to thank Ms. Kavanaugh for allowing me to speak. This is really amazing. I would like to thank my teachers and friends. I would also like to thank my family who is here tonight...especially my grandmother, Elaine Carr, who has shown me a lot of patience and compassion... especially when I haven't been too deserving of it. It was very important to me that I could include all of us in this speech tonight...because my high school experience was made up most of you. So I’m going to talk about the importance of opportunity when it shows up in all of our lives and to grab it tightly when it does show up.
Like most of us here, my life has been full of opportunity. The biggest opportunity that led to me to this moment...at came in the end of 9th grade. I moved to Michigan from Houston Texas. That was a blessing and opportunity itself. I came here to live with my family. I enrolled in ITA and had the chance to share my high school experience with all of you. Staying up late doing work, hearing about our Robotic Team 67 going to a World’s …show more content…
So I appreciate you. And I know it’s been hard for a lot of us, some of you all are in the audience thinking “What is she talking about? I can’t wait to get out of here. I can’t wait to get out of this place” [laughs] I know because you told me. Some of considered high school a type of burden. We’re nervous, excited, relieved, some scared about what might come next. But all of high school wasn’t a burden it was an opportunity. Whether it was to make or break relationships, learning your limits with work or people, or realizing that you can’t be an engineer because you hate math (that’s me), or you love math so you are going to be an
Good evening class of 2017!
Administration, teachers, family and friends, thank you for being here to celebrate special occasion. Before I start, I would like to take a moment to thank Ms. Kavanaugh for allowing me to speak. This is really amazing. I would like to thank my teachers and friends. I would also like to thank my family who is here tonight...especially my grandmother, Elaine Carr, who has shown me a lot of patience and compassion... especially when I haven't been too deserving of it. It was very important to me that I could include all of us in this speech tonight...because my high school experience was made up most of you. So I’m going to talk about the importance of opportunity when it shows up in all of our lives and to grab it tightly when it does show up.
Like most of us here, my life has been full of opportunity. The biggest opportunity that led to me to this moment...at came in the end of 9th grade. I moved to Michigan from Houston Texas. That was a blessing and opportunity itself. I came here to live with my family. I enrolled in ITA and had the chance to share my high school experience with all of you. Staying up late doing work, hearing about our Robotic Team 67 going to a World’s …show more content…
So I appreciate you. And I know it’s been hard for a lot of us, some of you all are in the audience thinking “What is she talking about? I can’t wait to get out of here. I can’t wait to get out of this place” [laughs] I know because you told me. Some of considered high school a type of burden. We’re nervous, excited, relieved, some scared about what might come next. But all of high school wasn’t a burden it was an opportunity. Whether it was to make or break relationships, learning your limits with work or people, or realizing that you can’t be an engineer because you hate math (that’s me), or you love math so you are going to be an