Dear family and fellow listeners,
                   I want to thank everybody for joining me and taking the time to listen to this speech I am about to give. I want to take the time and thank my parents for everything they have done for me. They have taught me valuable life lessons. They have taught me the basics of life and how the future is in my hands. I want to thank my elementary and middle school teachers for helping me throughout the way in not just school work, but they have also taught me important life lessons that I will carry with me through high school and forever on after that. I will miss the graduating class of 2016 because we were, and hopefully always will be, a very tight knit group of friends. I have been so used to coming to school and being around the same people constantly for 4 years straight. I have realized that high school may or may not split us apart, but we will always have the memories stored somewhere in our hearts. I remember on the first day of eight grade in Mrs. Joyner's class, no one said a word. No one was talking to each other at all. Finally, she told us that her cat died. Everyone in the class was laughing very hard, and after two minutes, the class was silent again. Then, Mrs. Joyner assumed correctly that we were all tired and exhausted because it was the first day of school so she told the class to go outside and walk around the track with her.