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CHIARAVALLE MONTESSORI
WORDS OF A GRADUATE
Dear First Day of School Patrick,
As you enter the building take a look around, you’re going to be here for a while, close to 13 years. Your days here will be filled with memories, some good and some bad. Acknowledge your classmates, many of these people, you will know for a while. In 206, you’ll rush outside to recess everyday to play baseball in the field with your friends. In Kindergarten, you’ll learn about the calendar, and bicker with your peers about who gets to put velcro dates up on the giant calendar.
With Debbie, you’ll learn how to write, but never correctly, frustrating many of your teachers. In 302, you’ll learn
to make new friends and of your poor commitment to finishing research projects.
In Upper Elementary, you’ll get to join a school sports team for the first time, and unfortunately learn that Chiaravalle is bad at sports. For recess you’ll play basketball on the outside courts where the taller people have to jump to knock the ball out of the net that is always too small. You’ll go to Camp Timberlee, where someone will always get in a fight with another school over a game of gaga ball.
In 6th Grade, you and Ralph will try to write a geography book with many errors in it that takes months to finish in a class that is nearly empty for most of the day.
In 7th Grade, you’ll go to Camp Ronora where you’ll play tennis in 30-degree rain with rackets that have no strings. In 8th Grade, you’ll play a very violent version of soccer that ends up with someone getting smacked in the face with
the ball almost every game. You’ll be forced outside to play basketball on a hoop in the alley with a soccer ball that ends up getting airballed into the neighbors’ backyards.
Two weeks away from the end of the year, you’ll start to write your speech. Your last two weeks go by fast and before you know it you’ll be giving that speech, in front of the people that shaped you, your teachers, your friends, your family. Finishing with two words, thank you.