The Final Countdown 

By: Lucy Buxton

Since it is finally April, days are starting to fly by for us seniors. To put it into perspective the senior class gets out of school, “has their last day of school at Wilson Hall” on May 9th. Which is 36 days, counting the days we are out for spring break. There are seven school days til Spring break, 22 days in all til prom, and 56 days til graduation. Although the numbers might not seem that small, one thing I have learned as a senior is the days are long but the weeks fly back…and I am not sure how to feel. 

Starting off with the first “big last event” of being a senior, Spring Break. This year’s spring break is going to look a little different for some of us. I have grown up going to Litchfield by the Sea since I was in lower school, along with the rest of Sumter but this year a group of my friends and I are going to Montego Bay in Jamaica. There are still a lot of people that are going to Litchfield, although I am thrilled to be going to Jamaica, I am skeptical about being apart from everyone. 

Next in these sequence of events is prom. I may just have this view of prom because I am a girl and trust me, I know boys dont take it as seriously as girls, my brother has made me well aware, I do feel like it is so “highschool”. That might be worded weird but think about it. In every movie about highschool, there is a scene about prom most of the time. I have a feeling this will be the best prom yet for two reasons. Number one being, it is so late (April 25th) so the weather should and better be absolutely perfect, this ties into prom breakfast as well.  Number 2 being, over the years and especially this year the senior and junior class have become very close and this is kind of “one last hoorah” for us to be together. I hope everyone has the same mindset when it comes to the actual day of prom.

  Following that, the last day of school or some call it the senior lunch, I’m not going to touch on this too much because for one, it makes me sad and emotional and two, I have never done it so I am not sure what to expect. 

Lastly, “The lasts of lasts”, graduation. In one of my prior blogs I expressed a problem with the location and my opinions but I have learned to be okay with it…(okay, not highly pleased) but I am thankful the administration took our concerns into consideration. I am very excited for graduation and I know it is a time lot celebration but I am feeling weird about it, like most of my grade and I think one main reason we feel this is because our grade has always kind of been the “babies”. A lot of people have had older siblings go through Wilson Hall and we are the last class that will remember some of the past teachers Wilson Hall will have. 

I know I have expressed some worry in this blog, I also need to note how grateful I feel to be able to feel so strongly about leaving because not everyone got to enjoy highschool as much as I have and been with as good of people as I have been with.