Is this a good enough Grade 8 valedictorian speech? Stuff to add?

Is this a good enough Grade 8 valedictorian speech? Stuff to add? I know some of you may find that having a valedictorian in grade eight is a little over the top, but it wasn't my idea. Any suggestions on grammar, ideas to make it longer, or other ideas are greatly appreciated. Sorry if you don't understand some inside jokes, my class will. When you first turn 4 and you realise that you will soon be entering kindergarten, a lot of kids feel excited and rather eager to enter the fun and exciting world of sitting inside a classroom for 6 hours doing endless amounts of work. But I was different. I knew from the start what hard work it would be, and that the excitement would wear off within a few years when you really start preparing for your future. You see, I had been in school before. Occasionally I would poke into my sister’s kindergarten classroom and see her not just playing games and painting pictures, as I had expected, but also learning complicated things such as reading and writing. Now, I’m not saying that school is such a horrible place, but things don’t get a little dry once in a while, and the people I’ve spent the past 10 years with have made it just a little more interesting. There are the Natives, those who have been here since JK, such as I, as well as others such as Caitlyn Ramsay and Mitchell Willoughby, and who I’ve got to know pretty well. Others, such as Danielle Stewardson and Molly Kloss, came in the early grades, and more recently students such as Kevin Kim and Rebecca Hocke have joined us even from countries across the world! Overall, I’ve been able to spend my elementary school life with a good group of people; not a group of druggies or outlaws, but responsible people with good futures. But, of course, there are always some stupid, yet funny, mistakes that students make, such as Adam Schmidt shaving half his eyebrows off just in time for grad pictures (if you look really closely on the composite, you’ll see that Ms. Cha drew them in), Adam Schmidt missing the East Park field trip in grade seven because his siblings didn’t wake him up, and, well… Adam Schmidt’s alter ego Snowflake. And our class has had many students achieve a great deal of honours, such as Nathan Phelps beating out all the grade eights in the Gauss competition when he was only in Grade five, Brecken Spence making it all the way to the provincial track and field competition in ball throw this year, and although not everyone was recognised in such a way, there are many things our class has done as a whole, both locally, such as raking leaves in the fall, and globally, when we collected soccer jerseys for children in Brazil, and collected money for those in need in Haiti. And yet, all of these memories of the past ten years are just a small part of our lives, as little as just 8% of it. For the past year we have been preparing for high school, and this exact moment, which will prepare us for university, which will potentially prepare us for the rest of our lives. I haven’t really thought much about it until just recently when I realised that tomorrow isn’t just another last day of school, where I get 2 weeks of summer, and then it’s back to the comfortable and familiar surroundings of this place. No, tomorrow is the very last day of this comfortable and familiar experience, and then it’s off to a whole new world; the world of lockers, cafeterias, exams, and 70 minute periods. And after that we’ll all split up; some will go to college, others to university and some will go straight to working as a greeter at Walmart, but that’s still okay! And even this year some of us will be splitting up; most of us will be going to Oakridge, but many are going to STA and Central, and other schools. But even as we move away from each other in the coming months, we’ll always have at least one thing in common; that is, that we were a part of the Clara Brenton graduating class of 2010. Primary & Secondary Education - 1 Answers Random Answers, Critics, Comments, Opinions : 1 : Very good and more than just adequate. If you make this last up to 5 minutes but no more, then you have succeeded in getting your message across and not boring anyone. Two thumbs up!!! Will my phone bill go up if I live in NY and call ... Trying to make a decision about Moving my family t... Why does Obama want to spend money to help Brazil ... Why are we giving U.S. farm subsidies to Brazil's ...