fandomhigh | Fandom High Graduation Ceremony Class of 2007 Part I

The sun was shining high in the sky above the front lawn (not that this would matter to certain members of the audience since there was a nice awning and shaded pathways). A stage was set up with a podium and several seats for the administration and guests. Off to the side of the stage, a guitar for musical performances.

In front of the stage, blue and gold chairs were set for the largest graduating class in Fandom High history (not that it was a tough record to achieve), and to either side of those chairs were bleachers for students, family, friends, alumni, and residents of the town of Fandom who wanted to wtiness this event.

It was a beautiful day for a graduation.

[OOC: ~~Please wait for OCD.~~ You're good to go! This post is mostly for audience mingling, general graduation stuff, and such. Look for Part II with your standard Fandom Surprise early this afternoon.

It'll be kind of hard to miss the events of the second post, so you might want to hold off an any post-graduation posts for a while to avoid being Jossed.]

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"You stand here at the summit of the Mountain of High School! Below you, underclassmen, climbing the mountain just as you have! You know the challenges they face! Rock slides! Angry goats! Yetis! You know these challenges because you fought against them long and hard!"

"We, the faculty, were there with you, guiding your path! We are sherpas of knowledge! We're there to keep you on the right path and push away those yetis, give those goats something to chew on, allowing you to go forward and upward, until you get up here! And then, when you're up here, you can put on your equipment and ski down into that valley that we call Life! You can start to climb another mountain from there. The Mountain of College! The Mountain of Marriage! The Mountain of Careers! The Mountain of Climbing Mountains! Once you're in the Valley, you can choose whatever mountain you want to conquer next!"

"You'll need to find new sherpas, though because we'll still be here. Well, not me. I have a new mountain to climb myself. The Valley is leading me to a new mountain over in The City! It's a mountain that I don't think I would have ever found if not for all of you. You see, as sherpas, we know a lot about this mountain. We also know something about other mountains, but we don't know them nearly as well. You - all of you - have the ability to give us more knowledge, make us better climbers ourselves! If not for you, I wouldn't be the climber I am today. We've had some rough spots that I couldn't quite deal with alone and you helped me through it! You made me a better person."

"You've done that for me, and I would like to thank each and every one of you for that! I'd thank you all personally, but we have a lot more speeches to get through!"

"In closing, I'd like to applaud all of you here at the summit! While people make it here every year, few do it with quite as much style as the Class of 2007! I have to believe that you'll head into that Valley with just as much flash and substance as you showed here! Just remember, when you ski down to the Valley, be confident. Be self-assured! And yell a battlecry that lets people know that you're coming! If you hear mine, please give me a wave so I know that you're there!"

The Tick paused to put on a knit cap and ski goggles. Then he posed dramatically and let out his battle cry for the last time in Fandom. "Spooooooooooooon!"

Jake was wondering if Dean Tick had spent a little too much time watching The Valley (http://fandomhigh.arborum.net/index.php/The_Valley), but he clapped enthusiastically at the battle cry.

Sam leaned over, "Did I miss fighting the yetis?" Then she applauded when Dean The Tick was finished.

Dick didn't understand metaphors so he had no clue what The Tick was talking about. But he clapped anyways. He liked spoons.

Tori was a little puzzled at points during his speech but she applauded Dean Tick. It was a pretty inspiring speech all in all.

Cameron applauded enthusiastically. Fandom wouldn't be the same with The Tick.

Annette clapped enthusiastically. After getting a piggyback ride from him when she was weetiny, the Tick was like totally awesome!

Aeryn didn't understand most of it, but she's used to that with the Tick. She applauds anyway.

There's a "WOO!" from Jaye. Because she doesn't remember her own battle cry and she doesn't think yelling "DIE BITCHES" or something in response would be graduation-appropriate.

Darrin and Karen both stared a bit.

"Is he the sex fetishist Sharon told us about?" Darrin hissed quietly.

"THE BLUE GUY! YES!" Sharon answered.

"Sharon, use your indoor voice," Karen told her.

Angela grinned and applauded, wondering what her battlecry would be.

Sokka sniffled and wiped a tear from his eye. "That's... beautiful," he wailed softly.

Wow, he just doesn't get more normal. She just watches with her head tilted, wondering if she could get her Tick on the phone to hear what he sounds like.

Kawalsky whistled and applauded in approval.

Katara had no idea what he was talking about. But she cheered anyway.

Richard leaned over to Emily as he applauded politely. "I have no idea what this man is talking about. And why is he dressed like that?"

Krycek tried to follow all that and just ended up applauding anyway. Mountains, valleys, whatever.

D'anna's head-ache was subsiding, not enough for her to follow all that the dean had said, but enough for her to laugh and applaud at the end.

Alanna had no idea what the speech was about, but she clapped and cheered anyways.

Parker was not about to yell her battlecry ("It would have been so much simpler if you did it *my* way" [headbash]) so she just applauded and yelled, "Wooo!" And thought about how much she was gonna miss Dean Tick. Yup.

John whooped a "Woo!" while applauding.

Jack just kind of stared throughout the speech. He understood most of it, but it was one of the most convoluted things he'd ever heard. But he cheered like crazy when The Tick sounded his battle cry, because really, how could you not?

Hamlet didn't really understand most of what Dean Tick was trying to say in his speech, but he still applauded loudly after it was done.

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