It was a Thursday morning. I woke up at 6:45 am, I made my bed which is the worst part of the morning, but today I didn’t mind doing it because today I was going to graduate from my middle school “Children’s Day School”. After I made my bed I took a quick 5 minute shower and headed downstairs to eat breakfast. My dad, “Jorge” was already downstairs making me breakfast. I could hear Mexican music playing from the radio, which I always hear in the morning. When my dad saw me he said “Estás contento de que te vas a graduar de Ocho Grado,” which meant “Are you happy that you're going to graduate 8th grade?” I replied back “Yes and No, I am happy to move on to a new school, but at the same time I am sad of leaving my class.” Then, my sister came out of no where said “I am glad that you're leaving my school.” My sister, whose name is Jasmin, goes to the same school as I did but was two grades below me. I said back to her “You are going to miss me”. “No I am never going to miss you and I’m happy you’re graduating middle school” said Jasmin with a smile on her face. I knew she was just joking around with me. Jasmin and I sat down to eat breakfast. Breakfast was eggs with toast and milk. The eggs were as bright as the sun.  My mom “Carmen” walked into the kitchen with a smile on her face. She was excited and proud of me graduating 8th grade. I am the first one in the family to graduate middle school and go to high school. After I finished eating my eggs I washed my dishes and and got ready to walk to school. I headed upstairs to grab my graduation suite. I brushed my teeth and headed to school. It takes me around 15 minutes to walk to school so I was keeping track of time.
When I got to school everyone in my class was happy. The first person I saw in class was my friend Noah. “Can’t wait to graduate today and I’m ready to move on to high school!” he said. “Yeah I know, the good thing that today in school we were going to just hang out and past time till graduation” I replied. We were also going to have class discussions about our experiences at the school. The whole class was sad about leaving school but we were also happy to move on to a new school and make new friends. Hours past and it was time for to change into our suites. All the boys went to the bathroom to change. My mom had bought me a new suite so I was a little excited to wear it. I had a black suite, with a blue shirt and a red tie. Everyone was excited and there was lots of screaming in the bathroom.  It took me about 10 minutes to change. When I got out the girls hadn’t finished changing. Few minutes later  I started to see everyone in their suites and dresses. It felt weird seeing the girls with dresses because most of the girls in my school I had never seen in a dress. We headed down to the graduation to say our speeches. When I came down I saw my mom, dad, Jasmin, and my godfathers. They were are smiling at me. The whole class got in line and we started to walk down the  aisle to the stage. We read speeches to each other and talked about experiences we had. I made a speech for my friend “Armon”. When it was my turn to read my speech I got up and headed to the stand.  I had butterflyies in my stomach because there was a big audience. I got less nervous when I started recognized most of the faces in the audience. I got on the stand and started to talk about our funny moments together and his embarrassing moments in 7th grade. After I read my speech I gave a hug to him and sat down. When the speeches were over, we stood up and everyone started to applaud for us. I was glad it was over. I walked over to my family and gave them a hug. My mom was crying because she was proud of me. After I had hugged my parents I went to talk to my friends. On the way there everyone was saying “Congratulations Jorge” and were giving me hugs. It felt weird that everyone knew my name. Finally when I got to my friends they were all happy. We joked around and had fun. Then it was time for me to head home, get changed, and head to the party.
The party was at the Beach Chalet. Everyones parents were at the party. There was food and music playing in the background and a slideshow of pictures of the our class “Class of 2014”. I grabbed a plate and served myself some food. I sat at the table with my friends. When I got there everyone was laughing. We started to talk about the good time we had at out schools. I said to Armon “Remember that one time you took of your shirt in accident in class”. We all started to laugh and tell more moments. It was getting dark and my whole class went to the beach to have one last moment together. When we got to the beach we saw the sunset, the colors were mixed of orange, red and purple. I also heard the waves crashing in the background.  It was a beautiful scene, but we were all sad because we knew this was our last moment together as a class. After staring at the sunset for 5 minutes we came back to the Beach Chalet and said our goodbyes to each other. It was truly and sad moment for me, but I was learning that to move on forward you might have to leave some people and memories. I am still in touch with some of my old friends and we still hang out. I learned that we have to savor each moment and enjoy it to the fullest.