Valedictory Speech For All Mean Girls Essay
Valedictory Speech – Abigail Wolnicki
To say our class has all the classic TV tropes of any film set in a high school would be cliché, but it’s the truth. We have our freshmen, preps, nerds, jocks, Asian Nerds, cool Asians, girls who eat their feelings, girls who don't eat anything, desperate wannabes and burnouts, but also the greatest people you’ll ever meet. All Mean Girls quotes aside, the people in this class are some of the greatest people I’ve ever met.
I came to Toowoomba Christian College in Year Three. I was quickly put in the ‘desperate wannabes’ group. As I blundered through the highs and lows of primary school, one of these lows for me was the fact that there was another Abby in the grade. If I wasn’t a desperate wannabe, I was now. So, being the new kid, I got the short hand of the stick and was called Abigail. Another two years passed, and I slowly eased out of being a desperate wannabe to something …show more content…
I’ve grown up with all of you. We’ve laughed and cried together. Though, as I leave, as we all leave, I think about how we’re not going to be all in this together anymore. As the end of our time together grows closer, I want to look towards the future. Yes we’re graduating, but just as Carol Burnett says, ‘We don’t stop going to school when we graduate’. We may be leaving, but we’ll never stop learning. Each new day will be a new adventure. We’ll make new friends and gain new experiences. Yes, I know this all sounds incredibly cliché, but that’s the point isn’t it? School if anything, was a love / hate relationship. We had our ups and downs, and just like school, life is going to be the same. So I encourage you to look back on your own schooling lives; take your mistakes and learn from them.
I couldn’t leave you without another high-school movie reference. So I’ve altered a poem to send you off with:
“I hate the way you make me work, and make me study too.
I hate the way you dress me up, and tell me what to
To say our class has all the classic TV tropes of any film set in a high school would be cliché, but it’s the truth. We have our freshmen, preps, nerds, jocks, Asian Nerds, cool Asians, girls who eat their feelings, girls who don't eat anything, desperate wannabes and burnouts, but also the greatest people you’ll ever meet. All Mean Girls quotes aside, the people in this class are some of the greatest people I’ve ever met.
I came to Toowoomba Christian College in Year Three. I was quickly put in the ‘desperate wannabes’ group. As I blundered through the highs and lows of primary school, one of these lows for me was the fact that there was another Abby in the grade. If I wasn’t a desperate wannabe, I was now. So, being the new kid, I got the short hand of the stick and was called Abigail. Another two years passed, and I slowly eased out of being a desperate wannabe to something …show more content…
I’ve grown up with all of you. We’ve laughed and cried together. Though, as I leave, as we all leave, I think about how we’re not going to be all in this together anymore. As the end of our time together grows closer, I want to look towards the future. Yes we’re graduating, but just as Carol Burnett says, ‘We don’t stop going to school when we graduate’. We may be leaving, but we’ll never stop learning. Each new day will be a new adventure. We’ll make new friends and gain new experiences. Yes, I know this all sounds incredibly cliché, but that’s the point isn’t it? School if anything, was a love / hate relationship. We had our ups and downs, and just like school, life is going to be the same. So I encourage you to look back on your own schooling lives; take your mistakes and learn from them.
I couldn’t leave you without another high-school movie reference. So I’ve altered a poem to send you off with:
“I hate the way you make me work, and make me study too.
I hate the way you dress me up, and tell me what to