Madison Haynes

Senior sendoff was awesome and the administration was really great about trying to help make the year memorable. For one hour, everything felt like it was the way it should be. For one hour, I felt like my senior year was normal. Even if I could only see the people from school from my car for a split second, everything was alright for one hour. Overall, I’m heartbroken with how the year ended. We missed out on the best parts of senior year. Personally, I don’t feel like I got closure. It would be difficult to say goodbye to high school regardless, but I don’t think us seniors really got the chance to say goodbye. Everything is so unfinished, the last time we were in the building, We didn’t know it was our last time as a student. We weren’t even given the chance to clean out our own lockers and such, we have someone bag them and we get them brought to our cars. We didn’t get things like senior sunset and awards night. Like me personally, the awards I received didn’t feel as special. When you learn about them from a video. It’s also hard because there are people from my classes and teachers that I’ll never actually get the opportunity to say goodbye to. I just have to move on.
That’s a really hard question. I have so many amazing memories from high school, it’s hard to pick just one. Pre-quarantine I probably have two. The first one was the end of my Junior year, and I was going for the role of student director for Cinderella in the spring. And I really didn’t think I was going to get the position and one day, I was in her classroom with some, at the time, seniors and Mrs. Gehrke just casually interrupts and asks me if I was still interested. And I just remember my jaw dropping and being unable to come up with any words. At that point, I had come to terms with the fact that I probably wasn’t going to get the position and there is something really amazing about working really hard and then being rewarded for your hard work and seeing it all pay off. My other favorite memory was opening night of Cinderella right after the curtain closed for the last time. And everyone was cheering, hugging and laughing. The show went off without a hitch and that is the most. Amazing feeling in the world. I had a smile plastered on my face the rest of the night and I remember just being so so proud of everyone that I felt like my heart was going to burst.