The class of 2021 were finally able to come together during the spring of 2021 for in-person classes. While they spent so much time being virtual friends as the senior class of OLG, they were none the less, a class complete. They gathered their submissions for their time capsule during the months of May and June. Thanks to their homeroom teacher Mrs. Hughes who got their treasures into this box. June 2025? Graduation Day from HIGH SCHOOL.
Thoughts for the Class of 2021:
Graduates, I am so incredibly grateful and happy that I got to stand before you at your graduation ceremony. I am grateful because for much of this year, there was a computer screen between myself and all of you, and I am able to now have all of you here in front of me! I am happy because I am able to wish all of you success in person with a huge smile behind my mask. This year has been one of unprecedented firsts: the first 8th grade class spent mostly through distance learning; the first 8th grade class that took their HSPT exam virtually; and the first 8th grade class to persevere through all of these hardships to make it through to graduation. Not only did you all make it to this day successfully, but as you can see from our graduation awards lists, many of you made it with great distinction! Congratulations to all of you!
It is my hope that as you head off to high school that you will be able to reflect back on Our Lady of Grace and all that you have experienced here. I hope that you are able to bring our core values of unity, truth and love with you wherever you go. I challenge you to go out into your new high school communities and bring the kindness, encouragement, patience and resilience that you learned as students at our school to all of the people that you meet going forward. I am so proud of all of you and everything that you have accomplished here, and I just know that you will do great things as you go out into the world.
Good luck to all of you, and know that myself and everyone here at
Our Lady of Grace School wishes you all the best!
OLG Class of 2021 here you are at the end of four amazing years of high school getting ready to head off on different paths of life. You have been blessed with supportive families and dedicated teachers. Success awaits as you continue to do your best. Always remember it was thanks to the many people who touched your life that got you to this point. Go out and show the world the many talents you have and never forget to lean on the Lord of all good things! Your OLG family welcomes you back anytime!
Even though we were separated for a while due to the pandemic, it seems that it only made us more unified. Thanks to all the teachers and staff members we were able to come together for our last seven weeks of eighth grade and celebrate the time we have left with each other before we head our separate ways. We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for the dedication our teachers have put in educating us. As well as the time our parents spent helping us and having the privilege of being able to have such a great education.
I want to play football in high school and get really good at it. I also want to make my streaming career possible. I hope I can move to San Diego when I graduate high school. My dream college is San Diego university. I’m hoping all my friends stay the same or I can get more friends to my friend group.
May 21, 2021
It’s been about a year since the global pandemic began. I went out to eat dinner with uncle today for the first time in a long time and since the whole lockdown thing has been long gone, we wanted to celebrate both the online schooling coming to an end and the soon to be my graduation to highschool. I am so excited to get the whole school thing I have been going through off my chest! I worked as hard as I could when I realized my mistake and I am satisfied with my results as well as the score I left the year off with. I am almost completely done with my schooling for 8th grade!
We were going to eat at a korean barbecue place today but it was closed so we went to a nearby japanese restaurant instead. The food here is really good but super expensive. My sister and I had a lot of food and I had to eat most of the food so my sister could get something from the lottery system. The system counts the number of plates we eat and every fifteen plates we get a toy ball from the lottery system that has a random item from a list of six or seven items. I am so full right now because I had to eat 20 plates! 20 freaking plates! RIP my dad’s wallet.
Next week, we will have not much left to do school wise and I am almost done with my artwork and research for a small project. I am overall satisfied with the small amount of effort I had to put in to make it look decent and I am slightly proud of it. Next week is also the last week of school! Did I say that already, idk. Regardless, I may or may not once again say that I am excited and happy to be moving on but I am sad because I will most likely not see any of my friends here again because I am the only one going to a public school and I am also sad about getting older. My back is already old but still. 🙁 . Well, this concludes today’s entry and hopefully I can make another tomorrow.
5/30/21
4 Years to go
Many students at Our Lady of Grace Cathiloc School would tell themselves that school is boring, and a waste of time. I can tell you a lot about it because I was one of them. However, once you get to eighth grade, you begin to feel many things. Being the oldest at the school, which means setting a good role model for the younger students. But for me, the feeling that stood out the most was the feeling of graduating from OLG. The nine years at OLG taught many things. Just one of them were its core values: unity, truth, and love. I was taught how to use those to my advantage. It helped me create more bonds, stronger friendships, and much more. I am still going to use the core values in High school as well.
Because most of eighth grade was through a computer screen, my class was only able to see each other for the last month or two of the school year. However, it was still enough to reconnect with each other. During online school, I gave up a lot, and got back up. I felt stressed, sad, and like I wasn’t going to be able to make it through the year like that. However, as soon as we came back to school in person, all my stress was gone.
Now I am graduating eighth grade. Many would be happy that they’re finally leaving OLG, but that is not the case at all. I was sad to see all my classmates and teachers for the last time. The classmates that I spent almost my entire life with, and the teachers that taught me. I am going to a much bigger school now. I will make many new friends. However, these friends at OLG were like no other. I will miss them with all my heart.
