Last night, Wednesday, we finally had the graduation for all of the kids in our program.
I honestly can't believe that the five months of program are over. The entire night went exactly like it was supposed to: perfect. For this particular night, I was put in charge of creating the script for the entire event as well as working with the Young Hero student we picked to represent the Young Heroes as one of the emcees. I got to stay on the stage for the entire thing, which I actually liked. I noticed in the beginning of the night when I was making the blind announcement in front of all of the Young Heroes, City Heroes, their families, the service partners we invited, City Year staff, and guest speakers, that I no longer minded doing public speaking. I used to be petrified of it, but now, it's almost easy. I noticed this as well last week when my team had to do a PT presentation in front of our team sponsor, Amgen. I introduced us there and explained PT as well as thanked Amgen for its sponsorship and thanked one of the representatives for maintaining that relationship. Speaking at either event was insanely easy and I didn't mind doing either (knock on wood). It's funny how some things change over time.
In any case, back to the point of this post. My kids are done. My Saturdays are freed up. I don't exactly think that everything has settled in that I won't be seeing my kids every Saturday. I'm sure sometime soon I will go through some type of post-par tum depression or something weird. I did steal some photos from the event of some of the kids that had particularly large influences on me. I also stole their names off of the table that we had created for them.
Doing City Year again as a corps member will drive me insane, however, I will have to see these kids again. Hopefully I can keep myself motivated and committed enough to come back and hang out with them on Saturdays.
Five months. Summed up in less than two hours.
Wow.
Hah, I think it is starting to hit me now.
I need to find nice frames for these pictures. These kids are so worth it.
PS - I read a quote today at Meany Middle School, the school my team works out of, while setting up for its student art exhibition that totally rocked me to my core. It's my philosophy written by someone else in a way that I had never heard of before. Check it out:
"Our true nationality is mankind." - H.G. Wells
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