An Insane Few Weeks!
Wow... has it ever been busy!
I have been to 3 grads in about 7 days and holy man am I beat!
Langenburg Grad
Ashley looked amazing! One of my best friends, Ashley Knash graduated from Langenburg high school, congrats to Ashley! she wore a beautiful white dress with detailing in the middle and she shore a little green flower in her hair :) Angelia, Michelle, Cole, Laine and Michael all looked amazing as well! Angelia, Laine and Michael graduated with honours, how exciting and what an amazing accomplishment! Cole also graduated with honours, as well as many many other awards and scholarships. Good job you guys on all your hard work! It has finally paid off though all of that complaining, moaning and groaning to get your homework done!
RUSSELL GRAD!!!
This of course was my graduation! It was the perfect day, right from a story book! Our theme this year was Riennessance/Masquerade Ball. It was so elegant and gorgeous! The day started out with an 8:00 wake up, it was time for make up! One of my best friends from childhood, Kristen clement, did my make up and it turned out awesome! Thanks so much to Kristen!! Next, was hair! Janet did my hair PERFECTLY it was exactly what I wanted for my grad and it looked amazing. So thank you Janet!! After that, it was time to come home and open some presents. My grandma Ella and Cousins Samantha, Skylar and Mackenzie were out so we continued our visit! Eventually, my boyfriend Nigel and friends Jill and Alexandra (Miss Teen Westman) made it here and we visited, laughed, opened presents and had a couple celebration drinks before it was time for graduation supper!
We had the Russell Inn cater to our backyard, so we had about 50 people over just to celebrate graduation! Thank you to everyone who came!
While Nigel, mom and dad, myself and my grad escort, Trent Becker went to the graduation supper, the remaining people in my backyard enjoyed a nice barbeque lunch, thank you to the Russell Inn. After supper, it was ceremony time!! Our slogan this year was "Unmask Your Future"!
Ceremonies did take awhile, likely about 2 hours but that's okay! It's the grads time to shine! We went though all of the awards and bursaries, I won three of them... The T.W Rice School of Dance bursary, the Banner County Health Bursary and the Ski Asessippi Bursary. Thank you very much for choosing me! Eventually it was time for diplomas! Well..... what an awesome surprise!! My goal for the year was to graduate with honours, but with my chemistry mark I didn't think it was possible... and I'm not going to lie, I was pretty upset about it. BUT when my name was called.... Karmen Guillas...graduates with honours... I was like WHAAAAT!! I couldn't believe it! That made my night and I was so happy! The grin on my face didn't leave all night! I still don't know how that happened, I am guessing that I miscounted my credits but either way, I reached my goal and that felt amazing!
<<<<< HUGE SMILE!!
One of my good friends, Heidi Marschall cleaned up on the academic awards! Good job Heidi! Heidi deserves it because she it very smart, intelligent, a sweetheart and she deserves the best! Heidi works hard in everything she does and I'm glad that she received so many academic medals, as well as the Governer Generals award! Woot woot!! Go smarty pants!
Following the awards ceremony was the grand march. I have heard comments like... "That was the most beautiful grand march I have ever seen!" and that feels great! I was on the grand march committee, meaning I was largely involved in choreographing it, so hearing those types of things really feels good. Since our theme was within an era, and a very classy one at that, We chose to continue this theme into the grand march. All of the grads either bought or made masks. We incorporated these masks into the grand march, as well as some of the easy-ish dance styles they would have used back then! the grand march started with only grads and their masks, it was lovely! Eventually we dropped the masks and picked up out escorts. Everything was perfect! 
Roblin Grad
This was Trent's grad- my grad escort. So I also escorted Trent! It was an awesome day! Minus the fact that I caught a cold the day before. Everyone looked awesome! Whitney, Alenna, Shayna, Michael, Lance, Trent... everyone! And congratulations you guys on graduating! The decorations were really neat! They were retro, "Grad Fever" it was called. With silhouettes of disco dancers all over the place, music notes and disco balls it was very original! You could tell a lot of work was put into it! Ceremonies, like Russell's, took a long time, but that's to be expected! If you don't like it, then don't go! haha. One young fellow by the name of Bobby Neufeld won many many athletic awards, including MHSAA male athlete of the year for any division. Congratulations Bobby! My good friend and fellow fastball player won Goose Lake High School's female athlete of the year, congratulations to you Shayna as well!
That was my week full of graduations... stay updated to hear how my Free The Children Fundraiser went!!
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