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Senior Year
Simone Doyle
7/7/2013
Ms. McClure
Senior Year It was the fall of 1984; I was a senior in high school, this wasn’t a new school for me. Getting to school that morning proved to be very exciting, entering the doors at Hanau American High, this was going to be my last first day of school there. We were all excited to see each other, although we may have seen each other during the summer, for the most part some of my fellow classmates lived an hour away from me. This time I walked in with my head held high, I was a senior. Excited about starting my senior year, this at the time was supposed to be the best school year of my life. There was so much to look forward too, and really knowing deep down that this school year was going to fly by and we would all be headed in opposite directions.
As the school year continued to go in full force, we started to prepare for all of the different activities that were ahead of us. The first main event that took place was homecoming, in Germany or at least my high school homecoming is where all of the different sports actually have a home game. Not one of the teams traveled to a different school that weekend, so every one of us was home. It made for a fun filled weekend. Getting ready for homecoming spirit week, getting ready for the dance, buying a dress, getting my hair done these were all things that came with that special weekend or day I guess. This was just something that I wasn’t looking forward to although it was going to be one of the best times I was going to have my senior year.
As the school year continued, things got to be even more eventful, spring break was coming up. This was something I was looking forward too for three years now. Although I was so looking forward to going or attending spring break activities, I had a job ahead of me. It wasn’t going to be easy to talk my parents into letting me go on the spring break trip which was in Spain. This is something that every year our school participated in; I

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