Graduation Speech

Graduation Speech

Cristian Castro

Welcome friends, families, and my fellow graduates. I hope you are having a great day, and maybe this speech can make it even better. It is a pleasure to have this opportunity to speak out in front of everybody tonight and be able to address my feelings, memories, and great moments with you all.

For 4 years I have attended Golf Middle School, I have been surrounded by many great friends, teachers, and staff. These people have shaped my  personality, character, and by overall making me the person that you see before you. I have not just been surrounded by great people I have been loved by them and been cared for by them. My education, knowledge, and understanding of the world has grown so much more by being a proud cardinal and learning from my teachers. These teachers however did not just teach us what us graduates know today, they took us on eventful field trips that we will never forget. Field trips such as Camp MacLean and The Holocaust Museum. The staff even put together yearly masquerade dances in october with a DJ and haunted house (built by the staff themselves by the way). This great faculty at Golf Middle School did all of this for us the 8th graders, these are gifts that I will never be able to repay. I say thank you to all of the teachers and staff of Golf Middle School for giving me moments and memories that I will always be able to look back upon and think to myself, “Man, I wish I could relive those great moments and days when I was a 8th grader at Golf Middle School.”

My advice and words of wisdom for future graduates of Golf Middle School is to never give up. There were times in the years of me being at Golf Middle School when I thought to myself that I wasn’t going to do well on this upcoming test, I wasn’t going to be able to finish and turn in this project on time, I wasn’t going to be able to finish my reading on time, I even thought at times I wasn’t going to pass this class. But then I told myself to never give up, so I studied hard for those tests, I worked hard on those projects, I pushed my reading limits to the next level, and I turned in all the work and gave 100% effort in those classes. And after all of that the outcome of it all wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. So this just shows that if you work hard, stay strong, and keep believing, positive things will happen.

I would like to thank all of my teachers, administrators, parents, staff, and my fellow students for giving me 4 great years of my life that I will never forget and be able to look back upon whenever I would like. Please give yourselves a round of applause.

People would always ask me what are you gonna do in life and I would say play soccer, then they would ask me, yeah but really what are you gonna do later on when you need a job, and I would be like yeah play soccer. Somebody would come up to me and say stop dreaming and face reality, you know what I would say back? I wouldn’t say something rude or physically hurt that person. I would say to them, “Well, I’m gonna keep on dreaming and make that dream a reality.” This is my philosophy and moral code that I live by, just keep on dreaming and show people that if you pursue your dreams you can achieve them.

My hopes for the future are to become a professional soccer player and play for Barcelona and graduate college.  

A poem to tie all of my thoughts together,

“Graduation, A celebration… A time for looking back on lessons learned, adventures shared, and bright moments filled with special meaning. A farewell… A time for saying goodbye to old friends, to good times you’ve known… a time for packing away memories, treasures for tomorrow. A beginning… A time for looking forward, a time to set new goals, to dream new dreams, to try your wings and see what lies beyond.” by-Tammy Sackmann.

And now a famous quote by a famous actor we should all know, Dr.Seuss,

“You have brains in your head, You have feet on your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. You're the guy who will decide where to go.”

Once again, I would like to give one last round of applause to the whole community of this great school, Golf Middle School that has nurtured all of these amazing students by my side to the people we are today.

Thank you for listening and have a goodnight.