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In our day-to-day living, we face triumphs and struggles in our journey; we

ready ourselves for another unexpected thing to happen. We go to various places,
by the use of the land, water, or even air transportations; and we usually spend a
minute of walking, hours in the airplane, and days in the ship in those trips, but
this time our journey in the education is much longer.

Like any other journey, we really apply the virtue of patience just to reach
the very significant day of finishing our education in high school. It is a long
journey of waiting, but similar to other trips, we encounter memorable things that
pass by, either the most embarrassing or the most unforgettable event during high
school days.

We typically use four years of our lives just to finish our secondary
education, and on those years we cannot deny that we are spending periods of
time with our friends and classmates during the ups and downs of being a high
school student. Those memories are stored in our hearts and minds.

There are also important personalities in our voyage, who intend to provide
us with the needed knowledge to continue studying these people, ore our
TEACHERS. They help us in the development and nourishment of our minds and
teach us about necessary information in their own areas of expertise.

In the first stage of our journey; some of freshmen students were culture
shocked in probably choose to go first with their old old classmates and friends
because they are still closer with them than with the new personalities they meet,
but as the year passes by, they develop new new friendships with their new set
of friends but are still connected with their old once.
During the second year, which is the sophomore finally cope up with their new
environment of learning. In this year , they become more mature because now,
they are not the youngest of the group. They are grown-ups and they·re ready to
handle more complicated situations and harder lessons in their school works. They
build-up a greater bond with their associates or the persons they work along with.

Then, it is now the moment to come across the experiences of junior

students. They are now second to the oldest students in the school, they need to
be pliant and responsible enough to embrace the duties given to them. Most of
them establish a strong attachment with their fellow friends and classmates. They
are now ready to study harder topics while setting their minds for broader
knowledge of studies.

Lastly, going on with the final level of high school, the fourth
year life is lot different from the first stage. Seniors are now given the hardest
tasks because of the idea that they must be models and representations of
character to the lower years. As they are set to do responsibilities, most of the
students are fully grown-up to act as matured persons without carelessness and
with enjoyment in the preparation to enter the higher level of education. They
have great relationships or bond with their fellow fourth year students whom they
worked along with for less than four years of studying.

After providing the needed virtues and characters during this four-year
journey, we now come to the prestigious awards for students: marching in the aisle
with their parents, holding their diplomas and awards celebrating with their loved
ones and bidding goodbyes to their colleagues--- the GRADUATION DAY. The
thin paper or the certificate is the reward that symbolizes the hardships and
patience of the students, parents and the institution alike.