Short Week

First: Jacob, you're the best for always making sure that I stay on my commitment to posting on this blog regularly. It's hard, but you remind me that people actually read and care about it, which makes me more excited to post.  ;)

My Monday morning started about pretty crazy. Chelsea, Dale, and I worked on our video for Physics which was hilarious to record. For this class, we just did the editing and cut out our laughter throughout the rest of the video.
Then, I found out that Leo, a new French teacher at Mountain School who I had met while he was interviewing for the job, was in the AV Room, ready to give a presentation about Mountain School. Becky had a master plan to act like she knew him (by knowing random info, like his birthday is next week), so I said greeted him excitedly and then ran to the theater to find Becky. It turns out that Becky's Senior Speech was during this grade meeting, so I had to run back to the AV Room to show some TMS support and tell the Juniors that they should feel free to ask me any questions, and then ran back to the theater because I couldn't miss Becky's speech.

Now, Senior Speeches. It was my first time hearing them (everyone else's second time) and it was so real and touching. It's interesting because they were real in different ways. Becky's speech on beauty (I caught the second half) addressed some things that I know I always think about but never really talk about. It was a pretty brave and very well-articulated topic, in my opinion. Katie's read her speech off of a hand-written formerly folded-up piece of paper and started by telling us how she had no idea it was her day to give the speech until very recently. It gave us so many different sides of her by describing her summer: Botswana, living in an apartment in Italy on little money, and a conversation with her girlfriend. She wrapped it all up by talking about her brother, and it just worked. I wasn't sure where her speech was going, but it didn't really matter. ALL of it was her speech, her words, and ALL of it had something special to say about her. I had to give her a hug when I saw her after. Also, the majority of the seniors I spoke to on Monday referred to me as "that chick Yomalis" or brought it up in small talk. I don't think it was that big of a deal, BUT IT WAS NICE TO GET A SHOUT-OUT!

I should explain senior speeches. The idea came from Mr. Lapidus to give seniors the opportunity to give a speech to just our grade and invite anyone else who wanted to hear them. So for every grade meeting two seniors give a special speech. I love the idea and I'm signed up for some day in February.. I have to double check that.

And then the rest of my Monday went by pretty slowly...