I would like to start by saying thank you. Thank you, for giving me a chance and looking after me all these years. It has been a pleasure to be a part of this community of teachers and students. I started school by slacking off and getting detention almost every week. This continued as a pattern until I was halfway through Year 10. I finally grew tired of this rhythmic chaos and chose to do something about it. I grabbed my Physics books and went home for the Christmas holiday. I remember going every day to my mother’s workplace to study. I finished half of the book, starting off having previously done only one or two chapters. All of which would not have been possible if I did not have Study Technology under my belt. In this way, I fought against myself to make a change to the role I played in my own story. This would never have been possible in any other school. This is because the mix of people I have been surrounded by has allowed me to know who I am and picture my future clearly in front of me. I will always hold these people dear to my heart. I will always feel indebted to these people for making me into the man I am today. When it comes to thanking specific people, I feel that I do not have the heart to limit it to only some. Every single person who has been with me on this journey has played a key role in who I am today, from minor personality development to my independence and decision-making. Couple that with a solid, and most of the time unwavering, personal ethics and I can say that I will not struggle much in the future that I will be creating for myself. Thank you to my teachers, friends, and parents for putting up with my struggle to reach this point and for allowing me to develop into the person I am. I am aware that one massive cycle of my life is ending. For the past year or so I have started to define myself as a person who values growth, in all aspects of life. It stemmed from the idea that when something looks unobtainable or unbeatable, how do you overcome it? Well, my answer was, that you should do it by taking one step at a time. One improvement at a time, and when you see something that could be made better, then make it better even if just by a small margin. And in this way when I look back at the times I have lived through, I can look back to it and say that I am proud of myself for the steps I have taken and the people I have met. And with this let me take the next step of my life and thank you, everyone, and I hope you can be proud of the person I am today and the person I dream of becoming. I would like to start by saying thank you. Thank you, for giving me a chance and looking after me all these years. It has been a pleasure to be a part of this community of teachers and students. I started school by slacking off and getting detention almost every week. This continued as a pattern until I was halfway through Year 10. I finally grew tired of this rhythmic chaos and chose to do something about it. I grabbed my Physics books and went home for the Christmas holiday. I remember going every day to my mother’s workplace to study. I finished half of the book, starting off having previously done only one or two chapters. All of which would not have been possible if I did not have Study Technology under my belt. In this way, I fought against myself to make a change to the role I played in my own story. This would never have been possible in any other school. This is because the mix of people I have been surrounded by has allowed me to know who I am and picture my future clearly in front of me. I will always hold these people dear to my heart. I will always feel indebted to these people for making me into the man I am today. When it comes to thanking specific people, I feel that I do not have the heart to limit it to only some. Every single person who has been with me on this journey has played a key role in who I am today, from minor personality development to my independence and decision-making. Couple that with a solid, and most of the time unwavering, personal ethics and I can say that I will not struggle much in the future that I will be creating for myself. Thank you to my teachers, friends, and parents for putting up with my struggle to reach this point and for allowing me to develop into the person I am. I am aware that one massive cycle of my life is ending. For the past year or so I have started to define myself as a person who values growth, in all aspects of life. It stemmed from the idea that when something looks unobtainable or unbeatable, how do you overcome it? Well, my answer was, that you should do it by taking one step at a time. One improvement at a time, and when you see something that could be made better, then make it better even if just by a small margin. And in this way when I look back at the times I have lived through, I can look back to it and say that I am proud of myself for the steps I have taken and the people I have met. And with this let me take the next step of my life and thank you, everyone, and I hope you can be proud of the person I am today and the person I dream of becoming.