Hoover's Farewell Speech

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Family, friends, and educators, I would like to thank you all for your support in coming out today to commemorate the Hoover High School Class of 2015 commencement. However, your support today is not where the extent of our gratitude lies, it lies within each and every single day of hard work and motivation that you all put in for my classmates and for myself to be successful. You are the reason that we are able to walk across this stage, and I think it goes without saying that each and every one of them deserve a standing ovation. Our four years were filled with happiness, sadness- excitement, drama- laughter, crying. This is a class that is without a doubt a special one to walk through the halls of Hoover, with students standing out in the classroom, in the community, and on the athletic courts and fields. It is one that has not only made its mark for the current student body at Hoover, but for ones to come as well. And once again, the successes of our high school careers come from our loved ones and those who were willing to push us at times when we just felt like giving up. It came from parents pushing us out of bed in the morning. It came from teachers pushing us to be the best we could be. It came from …show more content…

The backgrounds of the students- not only by home country, but by lifestyle, vary so much. And to think that this variety, often times extending to polar opposites, can produce friendship is an extremely special thing. This variety also comes in gratitude- you look at a student like John, who has worked and sacrificed years on end learning to speak one of the hardest languages and make ends meet just to get the freedom to live in America and attend school, and is thankful every day for the smallest things, and you have students like me, who were lucky enough to be born into the freedom and schooling, and are still thankful- but maybe sometimes take those types things for

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