gradschmadfad

(take two because my carefully curated beautiful blog i just wrote got wiped from the earth)(i'm weeping)(it was like 800 words)(so im sorry if this is a drag cause i do NOT feel the passion rn)(out of spite i will try make it better than the last)

wooo check out this fresh #schoolleaver

tbh the memories of grad (24th) were mostly wiped by the chaotic events of senior sunset and scav that followed but here are the greatest hits - in classic g25 fashion, everything went quite wrong

our gym's speakers decided to die on us (rip) so we watched a slideshow of our faces through the years in total silence 

our charming deputy made quite the mess of our final roll call (sigh)(what else is there to expect from her)

the first guy in the roll didn't realise he had to stand up and receive the grad stoles after the name of the last person in his row was called so we sat motionless until our deputy finally realised at letter 'L' and crankily directed us to line up 

also she kept forgetting that talking to us would make her miss names on the roll XD so she'd have to restart a few names back every time she berated us and ended up missing a few entirely T_T

overall, the event would have been quite emotional if the assembly had gone to plan and the sadness-bait music (as boyf likes to call it) had been playing through the slideshow and speeches (fortunate for me, as i am NOT shedding tears on these school grounds...)

i did receive a bouquet of flowers and letters from my homie in yr 11 which i opened very late at night (so late it was early, in fact), and found they contained over forty photos of us together over the years with essays written on the back of them - now this moved me to near tears it was so sweet <3 (it was accompanied by another essay on a sheet of paper, she had quite a lot to say, it seems)

the reason why it was so late it was early was due to the events that followed grad. it's gonna be quite the trek to recall all of this but i really want to remember it forever so here's what i got:

after grad, five of our gang headed to the mall to rest up and yap while lying on some musty-as bench cushions. great revelations were uncovered regarding the distinguishing features of romantic versus platonic (and other categories) of love and we had a lovely little queer partay

when the clock hit four, we bussed to the beach for the senior sunset meetup, and were met with the spikiest bits of shell i'd ever encountered on a beach, but it was 100% worth it since boyf and i now have matching bits of seashell and i found this epically large piece of seaglass B)

our grade managed to find some banger entertainment through wrestling matches (that word very loosely describes what they were doing) and some unfortunate beachgoers had sand kicked onto their beach towels </3

at 7pm, our team, dressed as the emotions from inside out (i was ennui) gathered to start of an eventful game of scav - we were handed a list of tasks ranging in diabolical-ness and skedaddled off the beach to start completing them.

our system was pretty goated if i do say so myself - two or three people did the task (one filming), our captain would post it on the insta account to keep track of points and one person would help find the title and point value of the task.

by the night's end (12am), we had completed the following (not an exhaustive list, but what springs to mind)

- gotten a stranger to film a tiktok with us

- eaten a whole lemon

- eaten a whole mudcake in three minutes (whole is a stretch)(3 ppl did this one)

- gone shirtless in the freezer section of a store

- had a team member lick whipped cream off a fellow member's abs

- skulled a drink in a carpark

- done a shoey

- done a reverse shoey

- french kissed (twice) in a playground for 30seconds (0/10 would not recommend)

- trekked up a 40 degree hill to find a street name

and perhaps the hardest-to-swallow (heh) task of all...

- the love island beer challenge; i can't even describe it it still triggers my gag reflex

overall though, i thoroughly enjoyed running around with my mates for probably the last time (at least for a while) 

i love gang

peace out

- daws (25th september)

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