Our most esteemed administrators and teachers, dear parents, beloved friends, ladies and gentlemen, a pleasant morning to you. It is a great privilege for me to be standing here in front of you, on behalf of the batch, to express the happiness that we feel in our hearts today. They say, “People only remember the first and forget the rest” but I believe that these three years have been a journey and we will take many memories with us. We do not need an award or a medal just to prove that we have something special within us. All of us are blessed with talents and are worth congratulating, and this is what this day is all about. How many times have we imagined what this day to be like? I have to say, I have thought about this day so many times I could have memorized every imagined scene. But not even the best of my imagined scenes could compare to the real scene I am greeted with right now. Three years my dear batch mates, let me remind you that it took us all three years to finally get the diploma we have been working so hard for. Who would have thought that our then nervous thirteen or fourteen year old selves would survive the roller coaster ride of middle school and would be here listening to this speech? We have come a long way in our journey indeed. Now that we have passed the challenges of middle school, it’s time for us to move on to a bigger fight—high school. The lessons we have learned in class will surely help us get through that next stage, but we also need to remember that all those formulas, poems—everything we have memorized—they are not the only things that will help us through. We also need to retain the things we have learned other than the academic stuff. Gaining the courage to stand in front of the class when we can barely work the nerve to talk to the person next to us; having the dedication to complete all our math homework when the only thing we actually know about it is the fact that we have to solve it—those are but some of the things that we have learned about ourselves that go beyond our text books. Those are the things that we will need not only in high school but even after that. And there is yet another thing we all need to remember; it is a lesson that I have learned through the years. Learn to appreciate others. Remember that we cannot stand on our own. Of course we solve problems by ourselves, answer our tests individually, and go through our everyday lives on our own, but one cannot deny how important the people around us are. Our parents, friends, teachers, administrators, even the bus driver and the lady who serves us our lunch all of them have played a vital role in helping us be where we are now. Most especially, God has made it possible to see through all the challenges and come out of them stronger and better. For all those blessings, I, along with entire batch am sincerely grateful to all of you. Once again, congratulations, we deserve to give ourselves one huge round of applause!