Renaissance Day Speech

In a few short months, we, all of the offspring who have the knowledge to complete nine years of schooling, will be dispersing and entering facilities where the acquisition of knowledge is the primary concern of the personnel. Some may know these facilities as “high school.” Nevertheless, the prospect of leaving the people you have endured and endured experiences with for five years - for the most part - may be a little terrifying. Especially since there are people coming from about 33 different schools. Multiply that by about 90 students from each school… yes, that is a lot of students who came to North Star.

Just remember, we can’t change the past. All of these memories, all of these recollections - they are what have made us who we are today. And we have what it takes to not only survive, but to excel in high school. When a fellow gold miner fell into the river on the fourth grade Gold Rush trip, we all helped to fish them out. Even though very few of us struck it rich, none of us were rascals and none of us stole each other’s gold. This taught us to be honorable
Renaissance Day was a day full of entertainment, food, speeches, and extravagant costumes. Each student researched his or her figure and gave a speech summarizing their life. There were poems read, music played, skits performed, dancing acts, juggling acts, sword fights, and more. It was a complete zoo. Speaking of zoos, how many of you have ever been woken up by peacocks? Yes, it’s not the best alarm sound. However, on the overnight trip to the San Francisco Zoo, there happened to be a peacock perched in the tree not five feet from the camping lawn. And the roar of lions in the distance was the cherry on top. But to speak honestly, the trip taught us much about animal species and gave us the chance to see animals up close, even if they were hippos and threatened to bite you with their giant teeth at any