Things I have learned that the teachers didn't teach
It's been awhile, but I figured I would see how many I would shock by making a post.
Anyway, considering I am graduating this coming Sunday, I thought this would be a great opportunity to share some of the things I have learned!
- I cannot sing, do not ask me to unless you are purposely trying to lose your hearing
- I cannot dance, I still do it just looks rather scary
- I cannot dance latin style, the hips refuse to move independently of the shoulders
- I run/walk better in heels (meaning I should put lifts in my combat boots)
- I am a ditz, I admit it.
- I have blonde moments, I admit it.
- Power tools for gardening + me = 2 cut extension cords
- Friends come and go, but stupid people last forever
- Knowing the Heimlich maneuver on a lizard is not useful when a human is choking
- Singing helps pass time when tying a rope bridge
- The command Eyes Right does not equal Rear March
- Do not trust anyone that thinks CPR is going to help when I have been hit in the face by a basketball
- When friends are trying to teach me spanish, have a dictionary to make sure what they are saying is the actual definition
- My friends love Dads burritos, including the hispanics
- 5<4 (you had to be there)
- A saber to the ear does not feel good
- a rifle to the ear does not feel good
- I am able to send a flag 20 ft in the air and not so much as blink when it comes down, throw me a rifle I duck and cover
- It is okay if the person next to you falls asleep while marching a parade
- I am a good shot... as long as I lay down or kneel
- One person can make two other people get along and be good friends, just by being in the room
- I sometimes do not catch on to things right away
- When someone says learn everything, its for a reason so don't look at them like they are crazy
- When taking a chemistry test for college it helps to remember the simple stuff as well as the complicated stuff
- Math is my friend, do not be afraid of math... except, there is no reason for half the stuff they teach us
- What I hear in song lyrics may not be what they actually are
- I am conversational in acronym
- I can tell a story in one breath, but I cannot guarantee if everyone will understand me
- It really is a small world after all, that's why one of my old coworkers is now my student teacher
- I'm a squeaker
- Penguins have special capabilities, not to mention they are just plain awesome
- Graham crackers have some sort of healing property
- It is humorous to watch the aftermath of one of my friends flirting with my instructors wife
- Nothing can really creep me out anymore, at least socially
- I am a jungle gym for a 10 yr old and a 6 yr old
- I have heard just about every blonde joke and variations there of.
- It is perfectly normal for high school students to sing the oscar meyer song
- It is also perfectly normal for high school students to be singing barney, twinkle twinkle, Im a little tea pot, and various other children's songs.
- Sleep with one eye open, especially when coming home from a competition and there is cameras
- The simple sport of badminton is not so simple
- When doing a project for biology that involves lime jello... Do not eat your project
- The majority of my class will have back problems in 15 yrs do to backpack that are at least half our weight
- Keep military bearing now, cry later
- I like children as long as I can give them back
- My brain is dysfunctional, but it works
- There must be complete focus on a 10k, unless there are goslings 10 ft away
- Breakfast burritos after a 10k is not always a good plan
- 0 dark thirty is a perfectly normal time to get up, just make sure Mom has coffee
- It is possible to take over the world with ping pong balls, coke machines, and penguins
- Singing in my sleep is normal, sitting up and saying, "Shut the f*** up Colyer" is not
- I am the future of the US Army... That should scare people
- "I am insane with long horrible intervals of sanity." -Edgar Allan Poe
- I will always have that happy, clumsy aura about me... get over it
- I no longer am a deer in the headlights, but I have my moments
- I refuse to be a Leming, you can jump off the cliff, Ill stand and wave
- If someone doesn't like the way I dress, than don't look at me
- I have learned a lot, probably to much to list here, but at least I can say I caught the plane!!!
Thanks for watching me and supporting me through the roller coaster known as high school
"We're the best, get it straight. We're the class of 2008!"