Friday: On Friday, my classmates in Journalism brought cookie cake and milk for me as a way to say goodbye. I honestly did not expect that and it was nice to know that I will be missed.
Saturday: It was my mom's bright idea to get family pictures done. Ugh. We had originally planned to get them done later but due to transplant, we had to move up the date. My mom, brother and I drove out to Topeka to meet with the photographer who did my senior pictures and she shot some great pictures of us. I'll post some when we get them back. Then we met for lunch with my Aunt Laura, who we don't see very often. Laura told me a story about another one of my aunts, Mary, who suffered from several conditions as a child and now lives in a facility where we can't visit. Apparently when she was a kid, she used to have a stuffed elephant named Macaroni that would go with her to all of her medical appointments. As a 'going away' present, Laura gave me a stuffed elephant just like Mary's. Macaroni Jr. is now packed and ready to travel with me to Minnesota.
Sunday: Two words. Family Thanksgiving. If you know anything about my family, you know exactly what this means. A day filled with too much food and too many family members packed into my Dad's house. My family only gets together a few times a year so it's always special when we get to see each other. Right now, my family has decided to only produce little boys so we have a total of six little boys under the age of ten, and two boys under the age of 15. Quite the handful. It was kind of a bummer to know that this will probably be the last time I will see everyone for awhile but it was nice that I got the chance to say goodbye before I leave.
Monday: Today was my second-to-last day of school for most classes but my last day of school for debate because I have an appointment tomorrow during debate. Mr. Witt had everyone do an "appreciation circle" as a way to say goodbye to me. The appreciation circle was something started by Mrs. Mountjoy as a way to say something nice about a certain person. It was cheesy, but sweet. It's getting harder to keep from crying as I say my goodbyes, especially to the debate kids because I've gotten to close to many of them.
More updates to come throughout the week!
**Reason of the Day: Today Chris Carey told everyone in class a not-so-funny story about a time when he pretended be "all over" me at a debate tournament in order to make certain people jealous. Sometimes he isn't as funny as he thinks he is. Chris Carey's weird sense of humor is always a reason to smile (RTS). **
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