Senior Will of 2015

Since I was required to write a senior will for the yearbook saying goodbye to the school, family, and mainly my friends and classmates, I decided to share it here. I got inspired and wrote a really long will just to find out that I could only have 190 words or so. I was really bummed and had to shorten my will dramatically, but now I can share the original here. This is the only time I'll ever say names of people in my blog. I have many other people to thank other than the ones mentioned in this will. I also need to remind that God is the reason why I am where I am today and I thank Him above all others especially for allowing me the opportunity to meet and love these wonderful people that I can call friends. I'm so thankful and happy to have known all of these marvelous individuals. Without further ado, here is my will:

I will always remember the impact that Discovery School has made on my life. I am forever grateful that I had the opportunity to attend Discovery for as long as I did. I’ve met so many amazing people from all around the world. I’ve learned so many things that I don’t think I could have learned anywhere else. I will miss Discovery terribly. I hope it continues to be the wonderful school that I attended for the past five years. I will always appreciate the small class sizes and the wonderful teachers who work here. I am thankful for all the teachers who have helped me in becoming the student I am today. I also thank my parents for always giving me support through school. I thank my siblings for being my closest companions at times, I love you guys. I finally want to thank my Senior Class for giving me an awesome year. Cata, I hope you become all that you want to be in life and I know you’ll do amazingly in anything you aspire to do. I can’t wait to see ‘Baked,’ I’m sure it’ll come out as good as the title! Never forget our Loki and Thor adventures and all of our stupid, loud arguments. I love you Cata and I’ll miss you, I wish you the best! Sophia, I hope you like the quote notebook, it’s coming out wonderfully. I’ll miss you a whole lot and I wish you the best wherever you go in life. I will always remember San Francisco and mainly that one night when we got ice cream wasted! I love you, Sophia! Andreita, what am I going to do without your randomness and blondeness? I’m going to miss you so much! It has been wonderful getting to know you over the past two years. I enjoyed the medical brigade with you, especially in regards to Nancy… haha! I love you, Andreita, hope you enjoy yourself! Vickie, I wish you the best in your future endeavors. I know you will succeed with anything you put your mind to. I hope you have a wonderful time in college and you enjoy your future life. It’s been great knowing you. Thank you for all the fun times in Model UN and ABSH Music festivals. Good luck Vickie, have fun! Jessica, even though we’ve only just met, it’s been great getting to know you! I wish you the best in whatever you plan on doing in the future. Take care, Jessica! Antonio, even though you’re really quiet, the times we’ve talked you’re a really fun person. I’ve only known you for a while but it’s been great knowing you! I wish you happiness and success in your future. I hope you have a great time wherever you go in life. Take care, Antonio! Dylan, I’ve known you for so long, I’m going to miss you a lot. I’ll miss you being annoying, which right now is hard to believe. I hope you have fun in life, no matter where you go. I can’t wait to see your face on a billboard saying you invented some weird kind of robot that does something really cool. You’re a great person and I’m glad I got to know you! Love you Dylan, I wish you the best of the best in your future! I’ll miss you a whole lot! Santiago, crazy Colombian, it’s been amazing getting to know you. I hope you have fun in college and you enjoy the rest of your life to its fullest. I’ll miss your teasing and your awful puns and you in general. I know you’ll go far in life and I wish you the best. I love you Santi and I’ll miss you, take care! This is going to be hard, saying goodbye to all of you guys, some of my closest friends. I’ll miss you all terribly, including all of your teasing (maybe you’ll forget about my pinky toe by the next time we meet). Have fun guys, love your life. Do what you’re passionate about and makes you happy because the world needs more happiness and passion. I love all of you dearly. Une Vie Extraordinaire: An Extraordinary Life (**Eventually**). Live that extraordinary life guys, you’ve only got one (Try not to procrastinate it)! 

Goodbye, until next time! 

Maturity

Growing up as an MK it is hard to act my age sometimes. Several people see me and think I act older than I am. I personally think I’m very childish in my actions at times. I then think that the people who see me as older must be blind. They aren’t blind and I do appear older than many kids my age.

                When I return to the States, I am much shorter than the people around me and I look younger than most people as well. My appearance seeming to be younger is due to all the make-up 12 year olds wear these days and my height is due to my genes, thanks mom and dad. Once you place me next to kids my age though, even though I don’t look their age, I act older than them most of the time. This is a very confusing time for me because I never know how to act like them.

Here in Honduras I don’t necessarily act my age nor do I act older than it. I’m in between the two. Sometimes when placed with certain people, I’ll appear to be older than I am and the same goes that if I’m with other people I can act my age. In the States I constantly seem to be more mature than the kids my age. My theory is that because of the move to Honduras at 10, I’ve had to go through with things that many kids won’t go through. Just the moving away from everything familiar into somewhere foreign, several kids won’t go through that until they move away to attend college. Most kids my age haven’t had to say goodbye as many times as I have. Most kids my age don’t speak two languages. This is all based off of kids in the States; most of them wouldn’t have experienced what I have while kids from other countries might have.

Maybe I am more mature because of all I’ve gone through in my MK life. I don’t know. I do know that it’s hard to connect with kids my age from the States because they’re immature compared to me. Not everyone is but a lot are. One of my best friends who moved back to the States tells me how hard it is for her to connect with people in her church because they are immature compared to her. She has a hard time interacting with them because she acts older than they do. Another best friend who also moved back says how much fun the kids at her church are and how they made great friends when they went back. I guess it depends where you go and who you meet. It just stinks when you seem to not be able to find anyone who you can have a mature conversation with.

Maturity is all about perspective. I act very immaturely at times (in a good way of course) and other times I act very mature. There are a lot of factors that come into play here. Several things may change depending on the circumstances you are in. I do feel though that adults look at MKs as if they are more mature sometimes and maybe that makes it worse. We can’t connect all the more because the adults are expecting something of us. Either way, I can act either immature or mature and I’m sure all MKs can, just takes the right circumstance to bring it out.

Goodbye, until next time!