Page 136 - 2013 Vestige

David Ruiz
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Parks Snead
The last two years have been crucial to my life, without this school I don't know what i would be doing next year or the rest of my life. Thank you Mom and Dad for giving me this wonderful chance to come here. The teachers and students here have made a huge impact on me and I happy with the way that I have turned out. I love who I am, and i wouldn't be who i am without the people who were with me, and talked with me, and laughed with me. Thank you Jennifer, James Scott, Nero, Dominic, Tyler, Jacob, Jacobie, Jack, Swan, James Bellamy, Gray, Victoria, Smoothie King, Flo, Big Spence, Ashley, Chris, Noell, Merrill, Philip, Clark, Brooklyn, Sumner and my old friend Joe. Without all of you, my experience here would have been drab, dull, and miserable. Don't think i forgot about you roomie, Matt, i hope you do great at App next year, you better visit, and ill defiantly be up there to hang with you in the mountains.
Thank you VES for everything you have given me, I will always remember the friends and experiences that I would have never had if i had never gone hear.
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Before going into specifics, I want to first say thank you to everyone who made my senior year the best of my VES career. It's been the perfect ending to my time here and I can't thank y'all enough for the memories.
Mr. Garmey and Mr. Laf, thank you both for having the patience to teach me for not one but for two years during my time at VES. You both invested so much time in my education and for that I can never thank either of you enough.
Marj, thank you for always letting me be my embarrassing self around you and only making fun of me occasionally for it. At the same time when I needed to be put into place you weren't afraid to do that either, regardless of how feisty I got at you.
Andrew, you and Marj have been my Lynchburg lifelines since the first day of school and for that I am forever grateful. We've kept it 100 since Kindergarten and that isn't stopping anytime soon.
John, you were the first VES friend I ever had and you're one of the best. Thank you for the school day shenanigans, the Burger King trips, the loops, and the countless golf course adventures.
To the fallen warriors of VES, Tyler Stevens and William Wojcikowski, y'all made my first two years here fantastic during a time when I wanted to be anywhere but here. I'm a lucky guy to have you both as friends, thank you.
To the underclassmen ( H.H, K.E, H.H, A.Y, L.W, R.T, M.J, D.M, E.J, G.D ) finish strong and don't wish your bigh school years away, believe it or not leaving is bittersweet.
"Look at your hands, they're just ripe for a new kind of dance. Just forget what your body's just done, and ride on the waves that the tongue's pressed on." -- Widespread Panic