Memories - the last days of school

[CinderellaPrincess]

WOW O-Nut!
What a great thread!

I think my last day of elementry was my favorite although it was very bitter sweet.
The whole 6th grade class of my school had a party with food in our classrooms and then when school was over for the day, we got to go to our local skating rink for a skate party.
The bitter part because my parents made the decision to move away and this would be the last summer with my friends...
We moved to a new county and it was just too far to keep in touch with all my friends.

High school was cool too though.
After graduation, it was off to Grad Night at Disneyland!
YAY!!! We had sooo much fun that night!!!

[Olympicnut]

Most people call those yearbooks.

When you dont have a yearbook in a Catholic school, you call them autograph pages. And in reality all they were were either actual autograph books you bought on your own, or if you were poor like I was plain sheets of lined paper.

[fastpassmountain]

I have fond memories of people writing the most trite yearbook entries (circa middle school). Things like "have a nice summer, see ya next year --- 2 good 2 be true -- KIT, never change -- etc etc etc have defiled each and every white space.

In highschool, people got a little more risque and wrote things like: have fun in the sun, get laid in the shade....

[Cuzco-topia]

I always hated Field Days. It was the time that the 'jocks' won all the ribbons. Although, I think I won one or two for stupid games like...toss the bean bag...or jump rope.

In elementary and Jr. High, the last day, we'd be able to wear whatever (we had uniforms, too), and they'd hand out year books...and we'd spend all day getting everyone to sign them....and if we were brave enough...the upperclassmen. (my school combined elementary, jr. high AND highschool). And by HS, you'd try to save entire sections for you best buds. In fact...I had an entire page saved for E-ticket.....which he filled

[NeverNeverland]

Field Day. *shudder*

I really don't remember any last days of school. I'm sure we had a little party or whatnot.

We didn't have yearbooks til Jr. High. Only the private school kids had yearbooks in elem!

[Dizneylad]

Wow! And here I thought my school was the only one that had Field Day, because whenever Ive mentioned it to other people they just look at me like, "Huh?"

HUH?

We never had anything like that. The grade school I went to was K-8, so we did have an 8th grade dance at the end of the year where we were all given little mimeographed autograph books with a few photos from the school year. The really big thing the 8th grade class did every year was put on a musical. My class did a production of "Peter Pan" and I played one of the Lost Boys. Talk about your typecasting!

Here's a picture of me from that production back in 19...well, let's just say a while back, looking stylish in zebra print shorts and Prada hiking boots....

[BDBopper]

When you dont have a yearbook in a Catholic school, you call them autograph pages. And in reality all they were were either actual autograph books you bought on your own, or if you were poor like I was plain sheets of lined paper.

I couldn't afford the yearbook most years so that's exactly what I did too, O-Nut!

[Tinkerbelle]

The best last day of schol I remember was 10th grade...just days before I moved to CA. School got out early (like 11 ish) and on the back field there was a big steep hill (we used to sled there in the winter) well they set up a ton of plastic tarps. and a couple hoses...

we all went down the giant "slip and Slide" all afternoon, clothes were trashed (most of the Senior girls wore white t-shirts, making those up us lacking in that area feel a bit..um non existant the guys loved it, the teachers pretended they didn't notice)

There was shaving cream fights...tons of it, but the 'slip n slide' thing was the best...about 4 feet wide (so a bunch of us would go down at a time) and the length of the hill....of course after a short while a very wet mud puddle had formed at the bottom of the slide yup...even more messy fun...

that was a good day

[Olympicnut]

Why does BullyBelles post sound naughty.

[Tinkerbelle]

Cause your readin' it,









(it really does though, truely unitentionaly.....)

[painted windows]

O god yes my best last day of school was the day I got out of middle school.All year we had mini food fights with a rival lunch table and it all escalated to one BIG one on the last day. I knew it was gonna get ugly so I loaded up on ammo before I got to school.After the first drink was thrown I got my soda shook it up then threw it and pegged a kid right square in the head with it. The kid went running after me so I fled the scene very quickly

[figmentpigment]

the last day of my senior year was pretty insanely awesome.

they justify our end-of-the-year fun day as a "reward for doing well during testing" but its just a party.
anyway. every year before, we'd go to the gym and they'd have giant blow-up stuff to play on. like a giant slide, a wrestling ring, an obstacle course, etc. and they'd make burgers.

the teachers that normally organized it both switched schools my senior year, so we all figured itd be absolutely horrible that year.


wrong.

they took us to the football field where they had every sport and game casually available (miniature golf, volleyball, soccer, football, basketball, croquet? etc), a blow-up slide, mountains of free cakes and candy and toys (bubbles!) and pop, and parents came down and they grilled. baked potatoes and barbeque pork and burgers and hot dogs with every fresh topping imaginable. it was literally 3 of those long plastic tables with food heaped on top. just for the grilled stuff. there were 2 of those tables full of snack cakes and candy and pop, and 2 more filled with toys (the junky prize things youd get at an arcade).

the only thing they didnt supply was sunscreen. which led to an emergency call to a friend's sister, because it was the week before prom. lol.

but yeah. absolutely amazing day. me and my friends are the artsy/geeky types though so must of us didnt play sports. we just sat on an old quilt like hippies and talked and took pictures and napped.


OH OH OH!!!

and i have a scary story about the absolute LAST day of school from that year!

id promised this TERRIFYING girl id draw a picture for her. and then got so caught up in scholarships and graduation and deadlines and college stuff that i forgot. and im horrible at remembering things anyway. she'd given me the picture she wanted me to redraw (a picture of jesus wearing a rebel flag robe that her mom wanted to use to get a tattoo) but after a month she gave up and just wanted the original back.

i forgot all the way up til the last day.

now this is the kind of girl that bragged about being "one strike away" from juevenile whatever. i dont even know. just the kind of girl you dont make angry.

so that last day was chaos 'cause it was a half day and NO ONE was in the right class, at all. i was hanging out in the art room, where all my friends were playing some stupid card game with the teacher. i decided to go off in the halls to have people sign my scrapbook (yearbooks werent in by the last day--how lame is that?). in the middle of an empty hallway, with no exits anywhere nearby, i realized i was walking toward her and she was walking toward me.

she was ...angry. said she was signing out right then, and needed it. i said, casually, as if itd just totally slipped my mind (when id been terrified all day), "oh my gosh its totally in my locker! i'll go get it--are you gonna be in the office?" she said she was, and i acted like i was rushing off to get it.

it was somewhere at home.


needless to say i spent the rest of that day hiding in the back of the art room with the boys and their xboxs. lol and im still scared i'll see her in public someday.

[figmentpigment]

we all went down the giant "slip and Slide" all afternoon, clothes were trashed (most of the Senior girls wore white t-shirts, making those up us lacking in that area feel a bit..um non existant the guys loved it, the teachers pretended they didn't notice)

lol i can top that.

at our "fun day" senior year, they gave us these shirts provided by the county that said "class of 2006" and had some random anti-drug messages and advertisements on the back. anyway. they were white, with only simple black text.

the teachers told us we were required to wear them (even though we werent, the principal didnt care).

we got to the football field for fun day and they'd set up a slip'n slide. ...right next to this big tent the male teachers had set up.

[RooBear]

I get to experience the last day of school every year and the energy is still there, just like you all are describing it. Normally, graduation for our middle schoolers is on Wednesday and we excuse the eighth grade from the last day of school to begin summer early. Strangely, they all still come in that last day. I try to keep it as structured as possible--but who am I kidding?

We have a yearbook party with a yearbook the students create and yes, we even have a 'field day,' usually ending in a huge water fight. It's one of the few days they allow big-ole me to go without a tie.

Lucky me, I suppose.

It's fun reading how everyone's experinces are similar.

Peace out,
Roo

[Tinkerbelle]

lol i can top that.

at our "fun day" senior year, they gave us these shirts provided by the county that said "class of 2006" and had some random anti-drug messages and advertisements on the back. anyway. they were white, with only simple black text.

the teachers told us we were required to wear them (even though we werent, the principal didnt care).

we got to the football field for fun day and they'd set up a slip'n slide. ...right next to this big tent the male teachers had set up.