I'm gonna film this video standing up because I look great.
Hey guys it's Olivia and I'm back with another video.
So as you can tell by my attire, I've graduated; I have graduated from the twelfth grade meaning that I still have four more years of school left
and in other four years you'll probably see a video very similar to this.
But for right now I'm a high school graduate and yeah.
So today is Wednesday June 28th, this videos isn't going up 'til whatever date Monday is I think July 3rd but yeah.
So I'm already in my attire and I figure I'm never gonna wear this again so I might as well film a video in it.
So, first I'd like to start off by saying this is my second graduation, because I did graduate from the 8th grade,
and comparing the two, I feel like I enjoyed my grade 8 graduation better because, I don't know.
I feel like I was a lot closer with people in my elementary school and in high school not so much.
Like, yes a lot of people from my elementary school did attend my high school but we just kind of drifted apart
and so I had friends there but not like super close, but yeah, so I feel like it was more fun at grade 8
because I was spending time with people I was really close with. Plus after grade 8 graduation we had a dance.
So graduation ended at like I don't know, 7 PM, and then we had a dance 'til about 10, so like three hours after we got to talk and laugh
and talk about what we were gonna do in high school next year, there was a photo booth and everyone just got to socialize and mingle and stuff.
So I thought that, that was really good. This year, like we just graduated and then left.
Like yes, we stayed back and took pictures and all that stuff but there was like, I would say 10, 15 minutes after the end of the graduation, everybody left.
Another thing that I liked about my grade 8 graduation is they had a like a slideshow of everyone that was graduating
and they showed a baby picture and then a picture of them now.
And I'm not saying they should have done that because there were over 300 people in my graduating class,
so to do a baby picture and then a recent picture of everybody, that's over 600 pictures which nobody has time for.
So I understand that, but I feel like they coulda done something to make it a little bit more personal;
like each year has their own twist to their graduation but it was just like, set.
And the last thing that I liked more about my grade 8 graduation is they announced the awards that you got.
Like yes, at high school graduation they have awards for like community service hours and stuff like that,
so those people got awarded, those people got presented with their awards on stage, but people who got like, Honour Roll and stuff didn't, which I thought was kinda weird
'cause that's a really big achievement but whatever. But yeah, so that's just me comparing the two,
but as I said they didn't present all the awards, they only presented certain awards, and I won quite a bit of awards that didn't get presented, so now I'm going to show you what I won at graduation.
So the first thing I got was this and I walked across the stage and I got my handshake and I got my piece of paper so you might think that this is my Diploma but it is not.
I haven't opened it yet but they told us at the grad social, before graduation, that it's a piece of paper that says "Congratulations" on it. But let's just check.
Ou! Okay it says, "Congratulations graduating class please pick up your Diploma at the conclusion of the ceremony."
Yup, that's... great.
Basically they just give you these for show and then at the end you pick up this package that has all your stuff in it.
So, let's open it up. So first and foremost is my actual diploma and it says,
"Ontario Secondary School Diploma. This diploma is granted to Olivia Henry a student of Dunbarton High School who has fulfilled the requirements for the Ontario Secondary School Diploma in accordance with the provisions of the Ministry of Education Ontario."
Very official, I know.
The next thing I got was this Ontario Scholar Certificate and it says,
"Ontario Scholar. This award designates as an Ontario Scholar, Olivia Henry who has obtained an average of at least 80% in any 6 grade 12 University Preparation, University/College Preparation,
College Preparation, Workplace Preparation, Open, Co-operative Education or College Delivered Dual Credit Courses or Ontario Academic Courses."
So that's a long way of saying, "I made Honour Roll in grade 12." I also made Honour Roll in grade 11, 10 and 9 and in grade 8;
I have a plaque of it on my wall, but this one is for grade 12, and yeah.
The next award I got is a Certificate of French as a second language.
So if you've watched my video called, "I'm Bilingual," you will know that I'm not actually bilingual.
This basically just means that I took French throughout all of high school, and typically when you take French throughout high school you're supposed to be fluent at the end of it that's what they told me,
so that's why I did it. Am I fluent? Ha, no. The only thing I've learned is "Bonjour" that's not gonna help me;
but I have a certificate that says otherwise so.
It reads, "Certificate Of French As A Second Language presented to Olivia Henry, Dunbarton High School."
So official.
I speak French.
Proof.
And the last thing I got is a Certificate Of Endorsement For Art Studies and it says,
"Certificate Of Endorsment, Art Studies. This certifies that Olivia Henry of Dunbarton High School
has met the requirements of the Ministry of Education by successfully completing a minimum of 6 credits in Art Studies."
So basically if you take six credits or more in Art throughout the course of your high school career, you get this.
I didn't even know this was a thing. The Art courses that I took were music courses and I just love music and I've always taken music,
so added bonus; didn't know I was getting it, was surprised to get it, but I got it.
it says you need to take a minimum of six, I took ten. In grade 9 I took Keyboard Music and Instrumental,
in grade 10 I took Jazz and Instrumental,
in grade 11 I took Jazz, Instrumental and Music Theatre,
and in grade 12 I took Vocal, Instrumental and Music Theatre so that makes a total of 10.
And so, yeah I did a lot of Art courses and yet I'm going into Business next year,
which... I don't really know how that correlates but that's what's happening.
So yeah, that's all for this week's video. I know that I have some footage from graduation; my brothers filmed it.
I haven't looked at the footage yet, so I may or may not insert it at the end of this video. Don't know, I'll decide after I watch it.
But um, yeah that's pretty much all for this week's video, I hope you enjoyed it. If you did; give it a thumbs up.
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And now, you can toss your caps.
*Cheering*
I haven't opened it yet but I'm pretty...
Ah my, I'm running out of space on my SD card.
Okay, stop recording for a sec.