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Good morning
Wow… it’s amazing how
14 years of love, friendship and laughter have just flown by. And it
seems that not long ago we were just children playing happily
in the kindergarten, juniors in 1st grade longing to become
seniors … because they are so "cool", the big ones…
And today we are all
here, joined together as one, having fulfilled our first big dream…our graduation.
To stand here today
means more than just having studied for good marks; it means having
made our parents proud; and it means having proved to ourselves that
we can achieve everything that we are determined to accomplish. It also means having successfully completed the first significant
stage in our lives, and that happy, but also difficult, times are
waiting ahead of us.Throughout the last 14 years the Instituto
Austriaco Guatemalteco has provided us with the necessary education.
Throughout the last 14 years we have gained the experience and the
maturity to face life just as it is with the help of our parents
and, of course, our friends.
So this is why we are not celebrating an ending today, but a whole
new beginning: A beginning filled with new challenges; a
life in which we will push doors open, and even though some of
these doors will fall back on us, we have learned to collect ourselves
again, to dust ourselves off, and to push again – even harder.
All our achievements
and future goals will lead us into different directions. But we will
never forget the most incredible moments we have shared with
each other, all the experiences that we have gone through,
everything that we have learned from each other over the past
years, and this will stay in our hearts forever.
We would like to tell
you that we are very proud of you all. We know how difficult it was to get here, but we
are all gathered here today to celebrate the outcome of 14 years of
hard work. We have all been
waiting for this day for a long time. In 14 years we have bonded in
ways that cannot be explained to those who have not experienced it.
We are the class of 2009. We are unique
and everyone here has contributed something to this class: there are the geeks,
the dancers, the class clowns, the singers, the talkers, the musicians, the writers
and the artists. There are the shy ones, the quiet ones, the loud
ones, the comic ones and the crazy ones.
But most importantly,
here, in front of us are the future leaders of our country: engineers, doctors,
lawyers, architects, designers... And it is the responsibility of
all of us to take the tools
that we have been given at this school and use them to construct the
future of Guatemala. We have all been looking forward to overcoming
our first challenge which has consumed time, patience and hard
work. However, we would like you to look around. Look at your former
classmates who have been like your family for 14 years, and remember
this moment. Think of all the good times we have shared and keep
those memories in your hearts, because when we walk out of that door,
real life is going to happen to
us. As we said before, we
will all go our different ways as we pursue our dreams. Nevertheless,
we have seen wonderful friendships grow and we dare say that
these friendships will last forever. Even if we are scattered all
around the world, these 14 years will never be forgotten and we have
to say we are honored to have spent our schooldays with all of you.
We are finally here,
not only to thank our classmates , but to thank the people that we
care for the most: our principal, our teachers, and especially our
families. All we want to say is thank you,
because we would not have succeeded without your help and support. Everything we
have worked for has finally paid off. It is an honor for all of us to graduate from the
Instituto Austriaco Guatemalteco, and today for both of us, it has
also been an honor to speak for our classmates, our brothers and
sisters. Congratulations to the class of 2009!
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