Caitlin Palmer-Bright
Caitlin Palmer-Bright completed year 12 at Kelvin Grove State College in 2004 and was awarded the Kelvin Grove ‘Margaret Green Award’ for best all-round year 12 student of the year. She spent all of her high school years at Kelvin Grove, and is currently enrolled in a Bachelor of Science at the University of Queensland.
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Just Another Step
After spending my high school years at Kelvin Grove it’s hard to imagine leaving. Hard to imagine a life that doesn’t include lunch time spent discussing what you did on the weekend, long classes and even longer assemblies. Or any of the things that made those years so enjoyable. When I look through our school magazines it makes me kind of sad to realise that I’ll never have any of these experiences again, but it makes me cherish the memories I have of the things I squeezed in between assignments, exams and homework, like plays, student councils, camps and the music program. Last year, my sister and I led the orchestra, sitting side by side in the front row of the first violins.
My final year of high school packed even more in if that was possible. I left the music program so I’d have more time for actual school work, but I was in the fashion parade, student council, and our school musical, West Side Story, which took months of practice, dozens of colourful dresses and not much sleep during performance week. And then in our very last week of school were all the things which marked the end of a school career: our graduation, our year 12 Formal and our final breakfast. As I close the magazines that hold so many memories, it still hasn’t hit me that it’s all over. I still haven’t cried or celebrated or had any of the reactions that I might have expected but maybe that’s because I’m accepting this for what it is: not a sad ending or a joyful new beginning, just another step into another part of my life.