It seems odd to me that I'm posting a blog post here for the first time since August... I guess I migrated everything to the "dpatsblog" blog and sort of left this one fallow...
So, maybe no one will even read this one and maybe it will be my last post...
At any rate, I spent about nine hours yesterday working on my version of the Senior Video for the class of 2010 at KCHS. I went back through various spirit weeks to look for footage and found some really cool things. This is actually the very first class that I travelled the entire experience from freshman year through graduation. It has been an amazing journey to be sure. I will miss these guys (most of them), and their class was really different than previous year's. The good kids were exceptional and the kids at the other end of the spectrum gave us all challenges we'd all like to forget.
The senior retreat was a fantastic experience for all who participated and I think having it so close to the time they actually graduate has it's advantages.
I'm hoping to finish the video sometime in the next few days and post it on vimeo so you can see the result. It's going to be a cool piece, but it will never truly capture the vivaciousness of being in high school, or the pain of adolescence, or the pure joy and excitement of new love so often discovered in this four year stretch. To be in high school is to be alive! That I have received the gift of repeating the experience is a cause for thanksgiving and wonder.
All that energy, all that growth in such a short time, and all the challenges they face in 2011....
That so many of them chose to share bits and pieces of their lives and struggles with me calls me to a much deeper humbleness and a greater appreciation of how smart, quick, and deep high school age people are. They "get" so much more than we realize. We see them silly in the hallways during break, but then they can stop a teacher in their tracks with one question that manifests their capture of vast concepts and proves their real command of knowledge. It's an awesome thing to behold... a huge group of people becoming... That I get to wander in and our of their lives and even in sometimes their hearts has been my honor and privilege.
So, maybe no one will even read this one and maybe it will be my last post...
At any rate, I spent about nine hours yesterday working on my version of the Senior Video for the class of 2010 at KCHS. I went back through various spirit weeks to look for footage and found some really cool things. This is actually the very first class that I travelled the entire experience from freshman year through graduation. It has been an amazing journey to be sure. I will miss these guys (most of them), and their class was really different than previous year's. The good kids were exceptional and the kids at the other end of the spectrum gave us all challenges we'd all like to forget.
The senior retreat was a fantastic experience for all who participated and I think having it so close to the time they actually graduate has it's advantages.
I'm hoping to finish the video sometime in the next few days and post it on vimeo so you can see the result. It's going to be a cool piece, but it will never truly capture the vivaciousness of being in high school, or the pain of adolescence, or the pure joy and excitement of new love so often discovered in this four year stretch. To be in high school is to be alive! That I have received the gift of repeating the experience is a cause for thanksgiving and wonder.
All that energy, all that growth in such a short time, and all the challenges they face in 2011....
That so many of them chose to share bits and pieces of their lives and struggles with me calls me to a much deeper humbleness and a greater appreciation of how smart, quick, and deep high school age people are. They "get" so much more than we realize. We see them silly in the hallways during break, but then they can stop a teacher in their tracks with one question that manifests their capture of vast concepts and proves their real command of knowledge. It's an awesome thing to behold... a huge group of people becoming... That I get to wander in and our of their lives and even in sometimes their hearts has been my honor and privilege.
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