I'm not one for excitment, but I can honestly say that I am excited about graduating. Graduating symbolizes so much more than just getting a piece of paper that says you're smart enough to get a higher education. Its more than sitting in a ridiculous cap and gown for what seems like too damn long waiting to receive the symbol for your dimploma. Yeah, they aren't even handing you the real thing. Its more than having crazy parents that blow air horns and spend $100 on stupid signs with some crazy nickname that you got when you were five. I'm looking forward to graduation because for once I will be able to move out of my house and not worry about my parents calling me once an hour to make sure I am where I told them I was going to be. The nine-thirty curfew on school nights will be over and I will finally have to wake myself up every morning after staying out until 4 a.m. lying in the grass in the middle of Excelsior Springs looking at stars all night. I wont have to hold every emotion inside that my parents don't or can't understand. I'll be able to road trip with friends whenever I want and we'll drive for days on end making up remixes of popular rap songs which normally just ends up as us screaming offensive lyrics at everyone that drives past us. Graduation marks the beginning of my beginning and I'm not letting anything hold me back. I love all of my friends but i'm sticking to the plans i've had since the beginning of junior year; I'm going to California. I'm going to college. I'm majoring in Journalism and Minoring in Music Production. I'm buying a laptop; A mac of course. Graduation is what i've been praying for all of my life, and its finally here. 8 months left to go. I'll be counting down every day because it's all i ever think about.