Ah, Graduation, a meaningful word. Graduation - a ceremony at which degrees are conferred. That¡s the definition for the word Graduation. But this word means more than a ceremony for me. It means changes in my life, to reach a higher stage of my life, the time to become a new person, the time to grow up, time to follow my dreams and separate responsibilities from fun.
I never though Graduation would mean that much for me, since I always change from one school to another. I only thought that Graduation would be the day I was going to receive a certificate and go to another level of education. I never thought of my senior year as something special, nor a year things was going to change, I only knew that my senior year was going to be like any other school year, but with the only difference that next year I wasn¡t going to be in high school anymore. It was the way I thought before I came into Metropolitan Senior High or before I was that close to my graduating year. This was the first time, since I can remember, that I¡m in the same school for three years in a row. I used to change of school every year, since my father always moves of country every year. So I just thought that my sophomore year was going to be the same. I didn¡t really care much about the activities my friends were doing to collect enough money for our ¡§Graduation¡, since I just though ¡§what for, if I¡m going to move next year?¡ But for some queer reason, I didn¡t move next year, not from a country anyhow. Actually, I did go to the States for three months and studied there, but I always came back. I felt a little bit out of place the first day I came back. Everything seemed so different, so changed, there were new students and new teachers; but at the same time, I felt like in home. It was an odd feeling, but it felt good too, for the first time in my life, I wasn¡t the new girl in school.
So, then my junior year came. It was great, peopl...