<p>Ok so my graduation is about in 24 hours, and i haven't written more than "good evening my fellow graduates, family, faculty and guests..." for my valedictorian speech! My friend, the salutatorian, is in the same situation! We cannot write, as we have been out of school for 1.5 weeks, and just got back from our senior trip to NYC LATE tuesday! Any ideas guys? Im writing about hope in Christ in struggles (I go to a small (class of 11 ppl graduating) classical Christian school), cuz my school and class has been through a lot, but i have writer's block. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>Ahh, I always feel so sorry for vals who have to write alone! Our school almost always has at least 4 vals.</p>
<p>I think that a val speech should sound like you. Last year, one val was very into community service, so her speech was about that a lot. This year, one val is a really quirky guy who you would never think would end up being val, so his speech referenced the song hat goes “You got that boom boom pow.” Heavily. But it was still great and very him. So make it sound like whatever you’re into.</p>
<p>one of 11…not a big deal to be vale / sal dictorian haha. don’t make a big deal out of it. say the lot of cliches and go from there. “Over the years, we have grown and flowered with one another and I feel like each on of these graduates today are going to go one and do great things…” Heck, you should even name all of them (first name only to be quick) just because there are so few people</p>
<p>“I just drank two bottles of tequila, my wife doesn’t know I’m here. Any of you girls over 18?”</p>
<p>Why not look up some insperation on the internet? Its a good place to start…</p>
<p>go funny (10 char)</p>
<p>yeah but im not a funny person! at all. ugh! i already looked up stuff on line, but actually, it is a big deal to be val. in texas, if you are val, you get a tuition exemption for thefirst year at texas state schools. and this year, i worked my but off! but actually competition for sal was much tougher. came down to the hundreths place in decimal points.
cliches arent my thing. i really want to be original. i looked up some verses online, but i couldnt find any quotes that seemed inspirational. </p>
<p>And since my school has been through a lot, people seem to want me to skip over all the negative stuff and focus on the positive, but i cant do that.
i have a rough speech written, and ill post it in another thread.</p>
<p>Why not make it about how you have grown from all of this bad stuff? Or how it is going to help your future? Something like that.</p>