Elizabeth+S

Elizabeth S.

Script:

High school has been an experience that I would never willingly repeat. However, the friends I have made during the past four years are more important to me than anything. As a freshman, I came to Green Hope without any friends. I knew one neighbor who was coming here and my older brother. Second semester of my freshman year, I met two of my best friends, Amanda Owens and TingTing Chao. Through gym classes and club meetings, we went on to be best friends until the end of my junior year.

Sophomore year was when I met Mick. He was a freshman at the time and I'd seen him at our church, but I'd never gotten to know him until we had driver's ed together. Before long, we were dating and he changed my life. Before I met him, I was depressed and barely making it through each day. I can't say that after only 2 1/2 years together that I am completely happy or that we never argue. I can, however, tell you that without his presence in my life, I would not be here today.

Junior year was marked by stress and exhaustion. I was busy a lot, and admittedly, I don't have many pictures of the great things I did or the friends I did them with. Hopefully my friends will forgive me for my opinion that taking pictures is never as much fun as the event itself.

Senior year has been dramatic and insane and I choose not to relive it. However, with the new friends I've made, I have found a good deal of happiness that I don't think I would know otherwise. Kat White and Tasmin Milner have stood by Mick and me through some really horrible drama. Everyday Selma Abdulhai is in my first period drinking Voltage mountain dew. Others that I won't list so as not to bore the class to tears are just as important to me. Regardless, to all of these friends, I want to say thank you for being yourselves and for letting me be myself. Thank you for making me who I am today.

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