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Graduation 2010

Graduation (the 5th) was pretty excellent according to reports I’ve heard (I wouldn’t know myself; I was busy being in it).


Apologies for the blurrry photo. It’s hard to take photos in the gym because of the lighting.

But I did think it went pretty well. Smoothly for sure. Well, except the cheap DVD player that was working an hour before didn’t work when we were going to play the video of the seniors Luke made and the slideshow Mr. Buck put together. Too bad, but not crushing. We swapped in another player after the ceremony and put the stuff on for people to watch.

The cake via Johnny T was pretty decent. Punch was also nice. I thought I got the last mouthful, but then they made more. Feelings of smugness dissolved.

Thank you, everyone who came. I appreciate it. Thanks also to Mr. Buck, Luke Zwanziger (both for video stuff), Archie Hook for being M.C. and such, Mr. Tollefson for being our keynote speaker, and our parents for working with and without us to get ready for this thing.

Then we had a BBQ. And threw a disc around. With Aimee, yep.



The food was good. I drank a Sprite that tasted weird at first. Could have been warm, maybe that’s why.

Lots more pictures in Ashley’s album. More pictures may be coming from Aimee. I'll let you know if they come. More from Aimee right here!

We eventually packed up. Some of us went over to our house to watch Bella. That movie is intense… too bad Matthew, Joseph, Elliot, and… Aimee! couldn’t resist riffing it.

And then Anna and Matthew headed back to Enterprise. Then we shot some baskets. And then we went over to Ashley’s and played Mafia. And then Leann and Jo left. And then Joe (our most excellent narrator) left. And then we hung out and ate stuff and talked and watched part of a musical and whatnot. I mocked Eric’s netbook. Tried to diagnose a problem with Beth’s notebook. Elliot and I left.

At some unknown point after that, I think everybody fell asleep.

Last day of school

May 27th. It was a pretty good day, if rainy.

A final in government (not too bad) and a final in Biology (bad). It should also be mentioned that on Monday, we dissected some dead animals in class. That was interesting.

So yeah, a couple tests, a play by the Latin class in the gym, a presentation from Mrs. Vernam’s little kids (with a song, yay!), a BBQ, and so on. The high school went over to Blue Banana and some people got some coffee (others didn’t). Our last days keep getting smaller and smaller…

Here are pictures from Anna. Enjoy.

Sorry, posts coming

Umm, I'm a lazy bum.

I will have a posts up soon about our trip to Salem and the last day of school. And soon, graduation.

Salem trip planning smooth, fundraising about done

That’s the news that today’s Salem trip meeting brought. Mr. Buck still wants to raise a couple hundred more in order to have some padding, but the estimated trip cost is a bit under $2,000. Way cheaper than going to D.C., that’s for sure.

So that’s that. Sounds like it’s going to be a nice trip. Mr. Buck painted a lush picture of Silver Falls State Park as a paradise we would retreat to after a day’s outings. And at the crazy affordable rate of 200 something dollars for 11 people for several days (that’s in two cabins).

Student and Staff Blogs

Hullo, here it is again in 2010. Most people here now just use Facebook for telling their friends about the details of their lives. a broken mold is definitely still active, though. I'm also designing a new Blogger template for Joella, so hopefully she'll post new stuff after that.

Students


Anna - Becoming Whole
Ashley - The Bravest Thing of All is Always Hope
Elliot - EJSmurf - Notes From a Neophyte Longboarder
LeeAnna - make up your mind
Joella - Can't Keep Quiet - Awakening
Joseph - Joe_sofat
Nathaniel - a broken mold

Alumni

Joy - crazed_joyful
Matthew - a broken mold

Teachers

Mrs. Vernam - applechexx
Mrs. Bomberger - Tanabu_Girl
Mr. Tollefson- tollyt

Got any more defunct (or not so defunct) blogs to add? Drop a comment.

We need new markers

Continuously. And since we’re a poor homeschool co-op we don’t always get shiny, cool new equipment. Arg. At least I don’t have to write stuff on the board all the time.