memories

the worst memory i have had at school wassome moments during freshman year when i was really lonely. My best memory was the apartment junior year. There were so many times when we couldn't stop laughing, and nothing is better than the feeling when you can barely breath when you laughing.

Best and Worst

One of my best memoires at westy was oddly enough within the first month of school. I was playing football for one of the best coahces that I ever had. It was at a time where Westminster football was not takenm seriously by any of our rival boarding schools, mainly becasue we had won one game in the past three years. This year seemed to be different, being that we now had some outstanding pgs. The memory that i will remember the most is when we won our first game against Berkshire. Not only did we win, but we blew them out. This was so great becasue it was so unexpected by everyone else. My worst memory has to be junior year as a whole. It was terrible. I had so much work and at that time the college process was very stessful. That is something that i would never want to relive. This feeling is most definitly mutual, being that everyone in the grade was going through this in one way or another.

My worst memory I have at Westminster would have to be a certain instance, I’m sure you all have heard about, involving webb and twenty dollars. The story that him and his friends spread around school wasn’t even true, but very embarrassing to me. It is by far one of the most humiliating experiences of my life, if not the most humiliating. I was made fun of for the incident for months afterwards, and I actually am still made of fun of for it over two years later.

The thing I’ll miss most about Westminster is my friends, and just all the time we sat around laughing, and not really doing anything in particular. I can’t really think of one specific time or event that happened, but I felt like we could make the simplest things fun. We’ve had countless of inside jokes, and the memories of our time spent together will never be forgotten.

The best memory I have at Westminster is the day of lawn ceremony last year. I just remember that whole day being so much fun. We were so excited to be done with classes and to be pulled onto the senior lawn. We probably went out for food three times in that afternoon/night and drove around town just laughing about nothing. It was an emotional day, and I remember going from laughing to crying then laughing again and crying again, but it was definitely one of my most memorable days.

I dont think that I have any specific best memories of westminster, i dont really remeber many things. There have just been moments that i have enjoyed, when i am with my freinds, carefree to any of my surroundings. My good memories of this place come along with laughter. Things that dont seem important at the time, like watching a movie with bunch of people or dinner, but later thinking back on it, i realise how fun it was.

I cant really remeber my bad moments here, probably one where i did something akward, or emberassing aka everyday. But one that I can place was at the end of sophmore year, my room mate Elba, and my other best freind Leila both told me that they werent comming back the following year. I remeber sitting in the study room with Elba and not being able to control my sobs. I was overwhelmed with the feeling that I was going to have to completely make new friends the next year, because my two best freinds woudl not return. I began to feel betrayed and left behind

Best/Worst memory

there is no way i could ever remember my best memory at westy but they are made up of the times i laugh the hardest, like the other day in assembly, or when graham fadden used to come to school and do absurd things like pretend to be napolean dynomite, or dressing up in parrot suits and running around the dorm

my worst memorys are saying goodbye to people, like sarah, emily and even everyone who has graduated.

What I Will miss the most about schwesty

i'll miss the comfort of knowing that my closest friends are just a few steps away at all times

miss ro. cats is an awful play.

my favorite westminster memory is from the halloween dance this year. it was the first dance that the teachers were being very strict about not letting us grind. really noone was having it, so a group of seniors devised a brilliant plan. we set up speakers in the old gym, and slowly trickled one or two of us at a time from baxter to the gym. pretty soon, people were catching on, and bigger waves of kids started crossing over. then suddenly everyone still at the dance all left at the same time. it was so funny seeing all of those kids sprinting from baxter to the gym, and having our entire school rebel at the same time. it was so funny and made me feel so close to the community and to all of the kids, both my friends and the random freshmen there who i had never spoken to before. it was just one of those funny things that i will never forget about high school.
my least favorite westminster memory is probably when i was on crutches for about 2 months at the end of my sophomore year. i couldnt really do anything becasue i was pretty heavily drugged on painkillers on top of the crutches and all of my friends were enjoying the beautiful spring weather. also my parents went away for a week in that time and while they were gone i had my ap meh exam so that was actually one of the worst days of my life. ew i hate thiking about crutches and the elevator key... the elevator would always break.. and i was only a lowly sophomore day student girl with crutches and braces.. and glasses because i cut my eye.. soo bad

My best memory for westy was my sophmore year when we played loomis at loomis and we havent beet them in 10 years? Everyone on that team played well and we played hard, carrier, quinn, christman , asche were all playing nasty it was just a great feeling to defeat loomis. After the game loomis wrote a report saying how we celabrated and how we took it too far and we werent even that good, however we won the league that year and they were 2nd. My worst memory however was in the same season when we were playing Deerfield we were down 1 to 0 and there was about 5 minutes left and kevin quinn was dribbling the ball down the flank and found me wide open, i had so much time and i rushed the shot. It was a low skipping volley and it went inches wide of the post. We lost that game, and i think i might of cried a bit after because i blamed losing all on me.

what i will miss the most...

I will miss the spring days when everyone is on the quad hanging out, eating, tanning, playing football or baseball. My favorite time is when it is just getting dark after a hot day, like we've had these past couple days and people are still on the quad and the sun is setting and everything is so green and peaceful and everyone seems perfectly happy. I will miss listening to Vanessa Carlton blasting from Memorial, and wilson and katz and the baseball players fighting over the minorest details of their insignifcant yet entertaining games. I love walking back to edge and seeing everyone out there. I miss playing the hand games and the gossip sitting in a huge circle of all my friends that will never be together again in 2 weeks.

THUMBS UPP!!!

PAYCEEEEE

Lockdown

When i Look back at westy i think my worst memory of the school is when The school put me on lockdown because i had gotten to many reports in 2 weeks. The weeks between turkey day and xmas day which was when i found out I got into college so i basically thought i could stop gionmg to school...didnt really work out so well because i had sunday hall till 2 weeks before spring break and i was on lock down in feburary or Jan i cant remember. But when the class of 2006 came back and i wanted to go out to dinner with lizzie, cam, gina, and all of those girls I wasnt allowed to leave campus. I was so upset and furious about the whole idea because i thought it was so stupid. I remember being so angry and pissed off espeically at the deans because it was so unescessary of them to do so.

My worst memory at Westminster has to be when I got myself into a little bit of trouble with my old roommate Sarah Coleman. It was a little ways into the year, and it was around the time when teachers caught wind of facebook and found a way to check people's pictures. Stupidly, we put up a picture that involved us holding a vodka bottle in a school bathroom. The empty bottle had been left in our bag from the previous break, and we realized we had to get rid of it so we wouldn't get in trouble at school. On the way to through it out, we decided it would be funny to take a picture holding this empty bottle and then since it was a cute picture, it made its way to a facebook album. It had been a long day of classes at Westy, and as Sarah and I swung the door open to our tiny, little room, Mr. Joncas and Ms. Devaney were in there leaning on our beds with mad faces on. I had no idea what had happened, but next thing I knew, they were telling us that this picture had been seen by the deans, and they recognized it to be a school bathroom. We explained to them that we never drank at school and that it was an empty bottle and a stupid mistake, but they told us our spot at Westminster may have just been jepoardized. I had never been so scared in my life. All my friends and all the good times I had at Westy were flying through my mind.The faces of my parents if they found out were something I did not want to face. I had never been in trouble at Westminster before and I felt so stupid. I wanted to make it all go away. I soon found myself crying in Mr. Cole's office with Sarah by my side. WE told him that this school was where we belonged and to forgive us. We told him we would do anything to keep our spots in this school because it meant the world to us to be there. In the end, the situation ended and obviously I am still here today. It was a scary situation that made me realize how much I truly loved being at Westy and how I would never, for the rest of my Westminster career, get myself into a bad situation that could end with me not being at this school any longer.

My best memory at Westy occurred at the very end of last year. It was the last day of exams and everyone waas leaving the hill to go home except for the juniors. We all had to take the SAT II's so we were there until the following morning. It was pouring rain and we all got the fabulous idea to go mudsliding as a form. Everyone piled out onto the quad and we began mudsliding in a HUGE and muddy pile that formed over by the path heading to Andrews. We took turns sliding through the mud, laughing and enjoying ourselves in the rain. Mr. Doucette came out several times yelling at us to move because we were ruining the grass, but we were having too much fun to listen. We waited until he went back inside and then we continued our mudsliding. Finally, after being yelled at for the last time, we made our way down to the lower fields in search of more mud and water. The group got a little smaller, but all of our friends were outside looking for a place to go slide. Much to our dismay, there was really no buildup of water that we could slide through, but we had fun just running around. At the end of the day, we were all tired, wet, and extremely muddy. The rain had stopped, but the memory will always stay in my head. It was so much fun to have everyone outside, drama free, not worrying about anything, but our summer break that began the next day.

besty at westy

One of most favorite memories at westy is when Junior year how 15 people went out to dinner to pettibones for Kim's 17th Birthday. Mr. Briggs drove a school van and we all piled in. Only one month into school, i was still pretty much the new kid. We were able to rent out a room at Pettibones and it was so fun. I have never ate or laughed harder that night. Our waiter was such a creeper, he wore a cheese hate that coleman stole from him and told us how pettibones was haunted. Because the wife had died in the bedroom upstairs which was the bathroom. It was haunted i believe because when elsie and I went in there the bathroom sink wouldnt turn off, it was extremley creepyy. It was one of the first times besides staying up really late, kitchen runs and just hanging out with these girls, that i knew they would all become my good friends. It was the 6 appartment girls, the triple and caitlin, Skyb, Chall, Erica and Coleman. Looking back at all the pictures from that night, i realized how close we have all become since then and how well we all know each other. It's sad to think that next year in the fall I wont be with this same group of girls and I will have to be the new kid along with many new kids all over again.

Best memory of Westy was playing against avon home junior year. Even though we lost in the last few seconds of overtime, it was the best pure hockey game I have ever played in. Even the coaches agreed when we watched the tape that is was one of the greatest games they have ever been a part of. I scored on a lucky shot in the very beginning of the game. Everyone on the ice was completely in the moment and living shift to shift and the crowd just added to it. A close second is my first game back after surgery junior year. It was at Kent and everything felt pretty normal until I got on the ice during warm ups and I literally had tears of joy in my eyes. I was shaking because it had been so long and I could finally do what made me happy again.

I try not to remember the bad moments, and they were so few and far between. A continuation of bad moments was sophomor year when I had to have surgery twice. It was so frustrating not knowing what was going on and not being able to participate in a sport. It is hard for people to understand if you have not been through a long ordeal of pain and inability to be active. It took 17 months total to get back. I remember the times i was so angry and frustrated that I could have exploded. Thankfully this is all in the past.

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for better or for worse...

picking a best memory is so hard because they are so hard to choose from, i guess junior spring was is. the whole thing, for better or worse because the good so greatly overpowered the bad. junior spring was simple and perfect. we didn't have to worry about leaving or the future. the roof, the all-nighters, the stupid fun. that last night with all grade capture the flag and mudslidding in the pouring rain. for the most part (sorry liv) we all lived together and we made it work. i remember sitting on the quad with sky one day and saying "i could live in this moment forever"

the bad: the bad is made up of mainly class memories. probolly those times where school seemed last on my mind and got me into trouble. senior fall; deciding what to do about college, adjusting to living in different dorms, and trying to get good grades. any times where people made me feel like academics should and were the most important things in my life.

Camp Westy....

we've always had time on our side but now it's fading fast....

we'll i guess we have about two weeks until graduation and to be honest it hasn't really hit me that we're leaving. i mean sure at times i realize that time is slipping fast and i can't stop it anymore. moments when songs come on or i am having so much fun, or last night on the quad when we were thinking of memories. i couldn't put a name on what i will most about westy, it's the little things i guess. it's the days on the quad, the sledding, the snowball fights, the bear hugs, the foyer, the field... just to many things to pick one. it's all in the little random days or looks or laughs.

What I Will Miss Most about Camp SHMESTY:

Memories, all alone in the moonlight
I can think of the old days, life was beautiful then....

well, so I'm a reminiscer, and if I can try and even remember what I miss most about high school, or even my school, it might have to be....this can get hard...I might even get misty-eyed...
and then when I think about what I will miss most about this place...it really might trigger waterworks, and well, you guys are a part of it...
anywho. think about those good times...see if you can recapture those moments. go out on a limb, dare to be a little sappy, for those old times...enjoy.