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0:00 at this time I'd like to present to you will ensure whose running total average of 19 point 55 I wish I was taller good afternoon principal Sorachi teachers parents families friends my
0:30 dear fellow classmates thank you for coming to our graduation I'm honored to speak to you today wow we finally made it to a graduation now here comes my confession writing this speech was the most difficult assignment I'd received from Fozzie you see no school was the most important part of my life so far and I found it difficult to sum it up in just a few minutes three years ago we all had an
1:02 image of what the next three years of middle school would be like in my vision wife at home would be framing in exciting at the same time which it has I had lots of anxiety about going to Halsey after elementary school because of a brief experience about as far as a third grades and it was not very assuring at the time that one's here I was heading up to four stores with League tryouts and this happened me how
1:27 to fall Z so my dad programmed the GPS in his car and GPS car town was like the newest toy my dad lots of fun with it so we got there half an hour later that was not a good start so after we got there half an hour later a police officer came out told us yo man come on get up come on real quickly and it turned out there's a robbery going on in the neighborhood and that's when I found
1:58 out that school we were in was not 157 but it was 296 the holy school in Brooklyn so yeah after 5th grade I was really anxious about a book about going a fuzzy little mix-up I was afraid also to leave so many friends behind from my elementary school at the same time I was very excited to
2:29 meet new friends so I spent the next three years really figuring out what those would be like and slowly I came to the realization that many of you would become part of my dreams for the future in fact we were all part of each other's dreams we are teachers dreams of accomplishments as educators we are our parents dreams of pride as mentors and we are friends dreams support as companions role models admirers and cheerleaders together we have spent the
3:00 last three years making each other's dreams come true remember how confused we were when we first came to hosing responsibility was almost completely foreign to us and we were told to a number sport digit lunch number and this student identification number like I remember going to school and we saw these black circles in the wall and then I realized those are cameras
3:32 doesn't invasion of privacy and that was an Omaha police officers and we were freaking out but what the heck is going on in this strange world of middle school are we going to be late handcuffs what if we miss man eight and where can I find the wick huge mr. Brewers are involved so I panicked to search for a friend or even a familiar face Mills
4:05 school was completely different than elementary school middle school fed us a lot of Independence's beginning of sixth grade there was a lot to get adjusted to and we had a lot of expectations I noticed a few things thought then that my boy understood recently the first thing I realized was that most of us were pretty insecure about ourselves I felt pretty insignificant and I noticed everybody wants to be unique somehow and everybody wants to be special but it's very hard to become
4:35 special I didn't know how to become special and I was pretty worried about being rejected however then we made a transition into middle school life without even realizing how it happened I realized that everyone wanted the support of others from the first day of school this has started to develop we have gained the support of others we've gained friends and we have developed a strong support system for all the obstacles we have faced in doing so we
5:02 have gained respect of others the second thing that noticed was that we like the new things that happened at Posey every day we appreciated the new and wonderful things our teachers did to get our heads out of the clouds and we appreciated everything different even the strange smells that sometimes immersion holiday I remember the specific but this specific story from sixth grade and I was in English class and suddenly we saw
5:34 this kind of for the movie prometheus series these black which was coming out of those urns we saw the same thing coming through the door my next verse was the boys bathroom okay so the back the bathrooms were flooding in sixth grade and there was that type of thing that meanness of laughs it gave us something to talk about it introduced new things into our lives and it gave me more things to write about in my speech
6:04 so the third thing I had noticed was that people wanted a cave throughout the repose of you people wanted a road that was secure them throughout the three years our teachers supplied this page rode through troubles and issues today who have reached a mark on that paved road near graduation and this point the road leads to high school another exciting and terrifying future cause he has many things I'll remember in the
6:35 future the one aspect of forty has influenced my life most unexpected we would have to be the talent departments in the sixth grade we would require to pursue a town class so I chose drama I didn't know why I didn't know to expect I heard that people they were pretty eccentric like you see in Almaty school hours can we tapas it on I only talked to classmates teachers they would talk to my parents either
7:06 didn't even talk to myself much so I was a very shy boy nama tree school so I'm not sure what's going on my head where I said okay why don't I just choose a talent class that makes me stand up and important up a few hundred people to talk brilliant decision so I did and Rama has been digging deep at me ever since inspired me to pursue a passion that's not existed before along the way I went to pick up some confidence in
7:37 speaking out to others speaking of my opinions and handling rejections and expressing myself and this is how folding has helped each of us discover our passions that push us toward them it gave us the confidence we need by showing us what we could accomplish with dedication I thank our town teachers for driving a dedication and will
8:09 also I want to thank principal Sorachi for continuing to invest in the various Tonko games of Halsey with the limited after all we know that investing in building a child's confidence and self-esteem is just as important as investing and teaching a child how to add subtract so I would like to thank
8:40 our guidance counselor Miki as well as your humor when doing with many of our problems and issues coming in the bag of no small sensitivities quality ties in its teachers and its students and together we created a spirit of palsy and that is a school's great success its community 40 events volley teams halsy sports in the horsy website the community is showing through
9:10 our enthusiasm it is shown through our devotion to the school and the holy spirit the spirit is further signified by graduates like us who will return year after year to help out in the show lose parties events in subject after graduating today and party from the community we will keep the Holy Spirit in our heads and in our hearts and I go cause you will continue to keep its doors open to welcome our return to watch a show pup an event or just to
9:36 visit a watch try to remember that every one of you is a star of your own and if you pay attention to others and extend a helping hand to those who need you will be a star in someone else's life so I urge you to stop seeking perfection in yourself in high school instead take what you have learned from fawzi and channel your energy to seek success in helping those in need be conscious of social responsibilities donate your
10:03 spare time to help others fight for those who can't fight speak for those who can't speak and stand for those who can't walk why do you make a difference in someone else's life you are the star in that person's eyes and you achieve success that only you can achieve without being second must be the best person you can be be generous to others and be generous also to yourself you have achieved a lot more than you
10:25 thought you could so dream big aim high take risks don't be afraid of failure when you are failing because you are taking risks your parents and teachers proud of you you'll be proud of yourself your friends will admire you as a class of watch well we have been living each other for the past three years however it is time for us to move on past hoarsely we are branching out into the world we tree with its leaves drifting
10:51 in the wind and its roots digging through the earth we are going places unimaginable three years ago and other future is still not weird I believe as a generation growing up with a new enterprise of science and technology we have far more opportunities to contribute to humanity and make everybody here proud so use your imagination don't be afraid and the failures that we may have the result in success some day three years ago we
11:22 started walking down this paved road party go together we have passed a checkpoint on that road however our journey going forward is no longer only one we have each other to lean on for encouragement and we have our beloved teachers a holding card for advice and we have our parents to count on to pick us up whenever we fall let's continue our journey together they continue to be in each other's dreams for the future for Kieran thank you very much
12:02 good well and by the way you want just to clarify well your speech leaving witty and eloquent but mine hijacking and we are getting new bathrooms it's a year later