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My you have grown. Let me measure you. Look how strong your writing is now. Look how much you look forward to challenging books filled with ideas and creative ways to express them. Your sense of aesthetics has grown by leaps and bounds and your ability to perceive the world as a series of subjective truths that need to be taken apart, examined, analyzed, understood, reprocessed and put back together will help you throughout your entire life. Maybe your parents don’t even recognize you anymore when you try to explain how you think now...or they wouldn’t fully understand if you if you tried to explain the changes you’ve experienced. You junior year is when you metamorphosize and become almost adult. I love that about you. You’re ready. During Senior year and you will take all you knowledge and talents and push yourself even harder (okay, until AP’s are over...who am i kidding!) and see what else you are capable of. It will be a year of college application drama, frustration, anticipation and finally relief. This time next year, well, look at those lazy-ass seniors now and that will be you! Done! Obviously I am sorry I wasn’t able to complete this journey with you, but I have monitored your progress from afar (remember, I have cable TV and I’m CIA surveillance equipped) and you know that I am proud of what you have done in a bumpy circumstance. First off, I have to thank my brilliant colleague Dr. Schuetze-Coburn. I won’t go into all the ways he has made your Junior AP experience what it is...you already know. But also ask anyone of the Carson alumni who have gone to college, and they’ll say how eternally grateful they are to have been put through the rigors you all have. On another note, I have to make a personal comment about something that I’ve always found pretty amusing. It is generally perceived that my class is the artsy, free-flow class and Dr. S-C’s is the analytical precision class. I don’t know how many of you know this, but you will find no stronger appreciator of music, dance, theater and art than he. As an accomplished amateur photographer, Dr. S-C has an extremely keen eye for aesthetics. He puts all his skill in the meticulous detail he uses to examine all your Deconstructions for “completeness” in their vision, harmony and execution. And then there’s Ms. Bottlik. What more can I say about my beloved Ms. Bottlik except Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. And Thank you a thousand more times. Ms. Bottlik had the unenviable position of having to step into this role with very short notice, giving up another class in order to do so. And because she did, you all got to read two of the most memorable books of your lives. You were graced with her charm, her humor, her intellectual perspective and an extraordinary passion for life, adventure and art. Ms. Bottlik is the whole package. And beautifully wrapped. As you frantically rush to complete your final journals, you college essays and personal deconstructions, we all hope that you keep expanding your mind and hearts into the world BEYOND school. This year, if NOTHING else, should have taught you that you and the outside existence do a symbiotic dance that starts when you are born and is (maybe?) over when you die. But enjoy the moves, learn more steps and pay attention to the beat. Next year, YOU are the role models for EVERYONE in ASA. I think Carson is blessed with some extraordinary teachers. Many of you will be fortunate enough to have Ms. North for an encore performance. No teacher cares more about your achievements and your potential than she. Yeah sure she’s snarky, but don’t think you don’t deserve it. Sharp, funny, inquisitive, prodding...El Norte is your biggest cheerleader and will assist you in (almost) anything to see that you get to that goal you yourself may not be aware of yet. That’s it. Have a good time this summer, stay on top of your summer reading assignment, sign my goddamned Blurty Yearbook page and grow even more, my intellectual Paul Bunyans. When it comes to what we want you to be able to accomplish in terms of your eventual life’s satisfaction, you can’t be tall enough. Have a great summer and I hope you all get morbidly obese in knowledge, love and experience. Post a comment in response: |
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