“the inner machinations of my mind are an enigma”
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last high school rally ever…
not gonna go into detail of the flaws of what happened, but the best part of the rally, or of high school in general, is the feeling of unity.
That yes, we’re all in this together (thank you High School Musical)
Highlights of the rally had nothing to do with the rally itself, although I’m sure ASB put their share of effort into decorating, preparing, rehearsing, and setting up for the rally.
WHAT A WEEK! I don’t even know how in the world I managed to snag these awards, but I’m so honored by each and every one of them. They all mean something different and hold a different special place in my heart.
*disclaimer* I’m not posting this publicly to show off at how highly I think of myself; I actually have pretty low self-esteem. When things happen to me, not only do I like to take photos to see how I felt, but I also sometimes like to jot down my thoughts as well to read how I felt as well. Hope you understand that I’m not JUST tooting my own horn here~ …hi Will.
First of all, I never really saw myself as “prom-queen” material. I always saw this award as more of a popularity contest, because it is student-voted I don’t really associate myself as the “prom-queeny” in regards to my personality, appearance, background, my friends, and what I’m involved in… it’s not what a typical Prom Queen is known for.
But that’s what make me even more proud of this honor, that I’m representing a group of people who don’t usually get their voices heard, who maybe don’t have the best hair but some really amazing grades. It makes me happy that people voted for me because I guess that means I must be doing something right. Although the hype around this title died down literally by the end of the night, I’ll always remember the moment I was crowned… (even though nobody fuggin bothered to document it for me on video T___T I would’ve done it for any of you… just sayin) when Bianca called my name and I think I teared up a little… it was surreal and reliving it in my mind still seems too good to be true.
Winning Prom Queen made me realize that I didn’t have to be anybody else but me to win. and also that split party vote is the real deal ok. I am the Progressive Party. (Promgressive Party*) Thank you to everybody who voted for and believed in me, especially my amazing friends in our beautiful Prom group and especially to my campaign manager/Instagram uploader/prom date/best friend~ our first photo with 100+ Likes :’) you’re an ass for uploading that and stealing my glory of those notifications but you deserve them!
Four years in the making… I knew I wanted to earn this award because it’s really the only one I would ever have control over. To be honest I didn’t think it would be that hard… you just show up to school every day.
But there were those days, those nights, when I really just didn’t start that load of weekend homework until 2am or Senioritis and DGAF mindset mated in my mind and I really just did not want to be at school. For four years, I powered through and stuck it out when my peers around me were ditching to go to Disneyland or just to play hooky.
Props go to my parents who take me to school every morning and to my brother who pushes me those mornings where I just wanted to stay in bed. I didn’t do this alone~ I may have called this the loser award, but I felt like such a winner during the Rally. This was something I wanted, worked for, and earned.
For my completion of my Journalism bucket list (see that in-depth post here) Ivan and Alan (and Kenneth who thought of the award (and is also the Most Qualified EIC ok)) awarded me with “Most Weil Rounded”.
I’ve always wanted to be a potato.
ok wait I need to explain that. maybe one day in a separate post. (mentally noted) I want to be a potato because of how versatile they are! so after my dedicated single year in Journalism, I’ve accomplished what I set out to do at the beginning of the year: to do everything in the newspaper~
Shout outs again go to my Double-P family ^__^
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It’s a shame I won’t be able to put these on my college applications… maybe summer job résumés?
LOVE LETTER WITH MY GIRLIES ♥ _____ ♥
YEARBOOK MEMBERies!
Kenneth Shih x Carol Wei
May 2012
reMEMBERing the first ever MEMBERies pose~
