Two of my most beneficial classes ended today. Throughout my educational career, I don't know if I've ever learned as much as I did this year from public speaking and senior writing seminar. They both really give you skills that you use no matter what you're doing. Today was the last time in both of them.

Public Speaking:

In the beginning of the semester, I really didn't like the fact that the class was all about making speeches in front of people. My first speech was a disaster, and I thought it would be torture the whole semester. The next speech, I actually practiced for it, and a lot. When I finally gave it, it was perfect, and I actually enjoyed doing it.

By the end of the year, each speech was fun to write and perform. Our class grew together, and I feel perfectly comfortable talking in front of audiences now. I highly recommend the class, because of how much it changes you. All of the speeches were also fun to listen to, especially the last social cohesion speech, where everyone had to pick an accent and character to portray.

Today we saw the rest of the speeches that hadn't performed yet, including a beauty pagent winner, michael jackson, pokemon nerd, army snail guy, chinese lady, and finally an old lady, remembering back on the whole semester and jokingly commenting on everyone in the class by name.

Senior Writing Seminar:

The first time I walked into the class, I was late because I couldn't find the room. Mrs. Blake looked at me and was disappointed in the fact that I couldn't be responsible on the first day. I had heard that she was a super nice and awesome teacher, so I thought, "What a disappointing way to start off a class." There also weren't that many people I knew well, so I thought it would be a dreaded class the rest of the year.

Each and every period, Mrs. Blake had some sort of bonding experience for the class. By the end of the semester, we were truly like family, because of of random discussions, sharing, writing reading, and chatting.

The writing in the class isn't strict and teacher opinionated like the essays of the english classes i've taken before. Instead, the teacher gives us a broad prompt, with which we can explore our own creative writing style, and become better as writers, instead of trying to write for the purpose of pleasing the teacher. She even wrote every single student a personal one page letter.

Today we had eight extra large pizzas delivered to our classroom, and ended off the great year we had.

Yesterday, everyone in the group was assigned a color to wear for today. When we all got together at break, our colors were perfect and everyone was different. We got into a line against the science building and took a lot of random pictures. Everyone was staring at our rainbow group. They were probably all jealous.