thefridayfive | The Friday Five for April 19, 2019

April is half over and we are tumbling toward May and soon it will be the season of graduating. It seems like every class has a graduation now, so how about you

1. Did you enjoy your senior year of high school?

2. Did you have a senior trip (high school) and were you able to go on it.

3. Was graduating (from either high school or college/university) a big thing with your family or just another day?

4. What were you looking forward to the most after graduating from either high school or college/university?

5. Knowing what you know now, what advice would you give your graduating self?

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all_choseny

1. Did you enjoy your senior year of high school?

Not really. I moved from Harlem, NY to Orlando Florida my 11th grade year, so all the connections I made with people I've known since elementary school were lost. I am an extremely introverted person and moving at such a late age made it harder for me to make new friends. Plus, by then everyone had already formed their groups and it is hard to try to fit in. I couldn't find my perch. I also hated how segregated my high school was. Admittedly growing up in Harlem, I didn't encounter very many white people. Unless I ventured downtown or upstate they were few and far between. We had a few white teachers in my high school and New York and they were super cool and "woke" (even though I didn't know what woke was back then lol). I had to ride the school bus home down in Florida and all the white children made the Latino and Black kids sit at the front of the bus. They would get violent if we tried to breech protocol. On campus there were designated areas where each group of kids hung out. The black kids hung out in front of the cafeteria known as "the wall," the Asian kids hung out by the "Pay Phones" (It was the 90's lol. When those got torn down it became the Asian tree), The Latino kids hung out in the "mira mira corner" (the look, look, corner. Mira, Mira, is just slang for addressing Latino's. Ex: Look at those, mira, mira's over there). And the white kids got to go anywhere they wanted.

In case you're surprised by this revelation,Florida is very racist. Orlando is no exception.

2. Did you have a senior trip (high school) and were you able to go on it.
Yep. It was to Cancun. And there was no way my parents were letting me go out of the country without their supervision. Plus, I wouldn't have felt comfortable going as one of the few POC going.

3. Was graduating (from either high school or college/university) a big thing with your family or just another day? Graduating from high school meant nothing to me. Graduating from college was a big thing for me because I went through a lot during undergrad. But my greatest accomplishment thus far was graduating from grad school!

4. What were you looking forward to the most after graduating from either high school or college/university?

I can tell you during this last semester I was looking forward to not having to write 3-4 research papers due at the same time.

5. Knowing what you know now, what advice would you give your graduating self?

Eh, I don't have any advice to give myself because the past is the past.

onlysmallwings

Answered at my journal

redatt

I've been a member of this community for ages, but this might be the first time I've ever actually got round to taking part! I am certainly capable of not amounting to much.