Tuesday, April 1, 2008

High School?

Yes, that's right, I am entering high school at the age of 12! Well, at least in the Philippines. In this country you have your normal elementary years of K-6th grade, but they do not have middle school. So you graduate from 6th grade and enter into your first year high school. So instead of graduating at 18, you would graduate at 16 years old!

My mom tells me that even though we are going to school here, I am still doing the same work that I would in the states, so I will probably still graduate according to the stateside rules, but I think it would be so awesome to actually graduate that early! I guess we will just have to see how it all works out.

The picture on the side is from our graduation service of me and my friend Jordan. This one is of me and my mom.


That night we received awards and the parents presented their children with the awards as the teachers announced them...I got 5:


Most Improved

Best in English

Most Responsible

Most Industrious

3rd Honors

2 comments:

Jen said...

Congrats on your graduation, Jared! You certainly received a lot of awards (love the "Best in English" one - lol). It is still hard for me to think of you being 12...let alone now thinking of you going into high school!! lol Graduating at 16 - wow! I can imagine that would make you excited.

Anonymous said...

Hey dude, moving to the big HIGH SCHOOL huh!! Good for you! Keep it up! You got all of the numbers down and now working on all of the work.