Sienna Tohar -- week 22 -- A Thank You (iGoodbye)

  So, the title is pretty self-explanatory (and kudos if you recognized the iCarly reference :3). Being that this is not only the end of our blogging time, our senior year of classes, and our high school experience at DKJA, I just wanted to take a moment to reflect and thank you guys. 

We’ve had our good and difficult moments throughout these four years, and we’ve been surely challenged in plenty of ways, but hey, we survived and we learned! I’m pretty proud of how much we’ve grown and how we’ve been handling what was supposed to be our special year during the pandemic. 

Thank you for all your insightful comments and views on the world, you’ve introduced me to new topics, perspectives, and ways of thinking. No joke, I feel like blogging also felt like getting to know you guys more in a different way (which is kind of weird but still cool seeing as how I’ve been going to school with some of you for literally over ten years). And even though some weeks I dreaded writing blogs because I was so stressed about other work, didn’t know anything interesting enough to write about, or straight up didn’t feel like doing it, looking back at our class blog, I’m glad I did (not that we had a choice, but I mean this in an appreciative you-know-maybe-this-wasn’t-so-bad-after-all kind of way). I guess that makes this also a thank you to Mrs. Ho for making us do these (and just a great two years of having her in general)! It turns out these are kind of fun, especially now looking back at the finished product! 

And you know what? Even though this was a pretty busy yet uneventful year for us, I for sure learned to appreciate even more all the time spent with my friends and just generally being in an environment with everyone at school altogether. I miss it, and now that things are coming to an end, I’m not sure if I’ll ever get that experience back. I’m going to miss being with my friends outside in the humid weather when we couldn’t eat lunch in our usual lunch break rooms, I’ll miss the sassy but sometimes insightful chats that would happen in the art room, and the laid back feeling in 209 when the lights were off because there was enough natural light and everyone was too tired to function after lunch or seventh period. I’ll miss the smell of the school when you walk in in the morning when the AC air hits you just right, and the relaxed feeling of leaving to go home, slowly walking that long way to the parking lot as the sun hits your back when you don’t have any extra activities after school, and knocking on the door of the teacher’s lounge because you and your friends realized you had some ridiculous question for a teacher that had absolutely nothing to do with whatever you learned in class (just for fun). 

So, to conclude it all to everyone, it’s been a long ride, but we’ve come a long way, so thank you! :,)