HERO iN MY EYES

My Techy Kookie Monster
By : Jocelyn León

Enrique León just may be a regular guy to others but to me he is my older brother. My brother is tall, with black hair and brown eyes. Though many words could describe him, I think that there is one in particular that stands out, which is awesome. Enrique was seventeen and a senior in High Tech High International. The day of all days in his life that I have been part of I think that his high school graduation is what inspires me the most.
Saturday June 20th 9am. The day of the graduation. Here we all are on the green moist lawn in the middle of High Tech High and High Tech Middle. The sky was gray and gloomy like if it were Halloween night. The mood overall was very overwhelming because everyone knew it was time to let their kids go and explore the world on their own. Once I saw my brother come out of the building to take a seat on the stage I had a flashback from four years ago when he was graduating from the eighth grade. He was once walking out of the door as a boy but now walking out as a man into the real world on his own.
It is time, time for the graduation to start. All you could see on the stage was the board of directors of High Tech High and all the seniors of High Tech High International. This day may be the most scariest yet happiest day of a teenager's life. Scary because they are going to start a whole new life on their own, happy because they are done with high school and off to college. From this point of the ceremony while I was thinking this all the board of directors and part of the students were saying that each one of those students who were graduating that day were pushing themselves to get to that point of their lives and that they did a good job and that they could not also believe that they were once freshman but now the graduating class of 2009.
When that was all over it was time to give the diplomas out to the students. This is the point when all the students and parents start getting emotional because like I say, their baby boy or girl is leaving the coop. I would get emotional because I could not believe that I was seeing with my own two eyes that my brother is graduating and going off to college and pursuing his dream of getting his Masters in Computer/Electrical Engineering and I admire him for this. He had made me, my sister and my parents proud to be the first high school graduate and the first to go to college. Now it is my turn to go through the path of the four years of high school. The time of pain has come to me.
My brother was the last one on his side to get his diploma but then the waiting was over he was now walking the aisle of chances. When I saw him at the podium the same flashback came to me when he was a boy graduating from the eighth grade and now is a man graduating from high school. My brothers words of this whole day were, "It's finally over; it's finally begun".