Graduation week!
Another graduation week looms ahead at HKIS and, for the students who'll be graduating, this marks a major transition in their lives as they say farewell to their friends and family and take off into the wide world and the unknown that lies ahead. It's scary and exciting, in equal measures. Nothing will ever be the same again!
It's got me thinking of my own last week at school. I can remember it in very clear detail - I guess because it was a week of heightened emotion. Boksburg High, the school I went to, had a very stable population and I was with the same people, more-or-less, for seven years. In fact, I'd been in the same school as many of the kids in my year since Primary I and some even since kindergarten.
It suddenly struck me at the beginning of that last week of school that the group of us would never be assembled together in one place ever again and that I probably wouldn't see many of them again .. and that is, in fact, how it was.
It was the first time I can remember experiencing the bittersweet feeling of the melancholy of saying goodbye and farewell to a group of people with whom you've been closely associated over a period of time, knowing that it's likely that you won't see many of them again. (Yay! Facebook!)
Most of all, I can remember the songs I was listening to that week. Music is so evocative of memory and when I hear those songs again now, I am transported back to that time.
I was - and still am - an avid music lover and at that time I was listening to the great music of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Fleetwood Mac, Van Morrison, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest, Budgie, Creedence Clearwater Revivial, Janis Joplin, Lindisfarne, The Rolling Stones, Yes, Grateful Dead, Uriah Heep, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Procol Harum, Camel, The Eagles, Jethro Tull, The Doors, Santana Abraxis, Black Sabbath, The Who, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd and ZZ Top. Those were the days!
I was especially listening to Alice Cooper that final week of school ... especially "I'm Eighteen" (although I was only just turned 17 at the time) and "School's Out" which were both highly appropriate, it seemed to me, for that week. I was a great fan of Alice Cooper and I had all their records. Good grief!
Of course, we didn't have ipods and cds ... it was still the days of LP records - 12-inch black vinyl disks with holes in the middle of them. I wonder if cds will seem as quaint to the next generation?
It's got me thinking of my own last week at school. I can remember it in very clear detail - I guess because it was a week of heightened emotion. Boksburg High, the school I went to, had a very stable population and I was with the same people, more-or-less, for seven years. In fact, I'd been in the same school as many of the kids in my year since Primary I and some even since kindergarten.
It suddenly struck me at the beginning of that last week of school that the group of us would never be assembled together in one place ever again and that I probably wouldn't see many of them again .. and that is, in fact, how it was.
It was the first time I can remember experiencing the bittersweet feeling of the melancholy of saying goodbye and farewell to a group of people with whom you've been closely associated over a period of time, knowing that it's likely that you won't see many of them again. (Yay! Facebook!)
Most of all, I can remember the songs I was listening to that week. Music is so evocative of memory and when I hear those songs again now, I am transported back to that time.
I was - and still am - an avid music lover and at that time I was listening to the great music of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Fleetwood Mac, Van Morrison, Led Zeppelin, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest, Budgie, Creedence Clearwater Revivial, Janis Joplin, Lindisfarne, The Rolling Stones, Yes, Grateful Dead, Uriah Heep, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Procol Harum, Camel, The Eagles, Jethro Tull, The Doors, Santana Abraxis, Black Sabbath, The Who, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd and ZZ Top. Those were the days!
I was especially listening to Alice Cooper that final week of school ... especially "I'm Eighteen" (although I was only just turned 17 at the time) and "School's Out" which were both highly appropriate, it seemed to me, for that week. I was a great fan of Alice Cooper and I had all their records. Good grief!
Of course, we didn't have ipods and cds ... it was still the days of LP records - 12-inch black vinyl disks with holes in the middle of them. I wonder if cds will seem as quaint to the next generation?
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