Last Day Of School

Big Nasty · 12-08-2012 07:21PM #1

After 13/14 years in school the day you walk out of class for the last time is a pretty special moment in your life and probably the first time you really feel grown up. It's 20 years since I finished school and if I remember right most schools gave you a half day and if they didin't you went on the hop anyhow.

I celebrated my last day of school by drinking cans in the local park with half of my year, going home on the bus for dinner and a snooze, going back to the school for some maas thing then going on the piss in the park again. I also 'scored' a chick that I had been chasing for all of my five years in secondary school that night so it was a pretty good day!

How did you celebrate your last day of school and how long ago was it?

brummytom · 12-08-2012 07:26PM

Mine was in June. Went to the pub at lunchtime, all came back half-cut for mass. Was great to see half the year singing 'I the Lord of Sea and Sky' while swaying.

Didn't really do much on the night. Went to a snooker club for a few hours, had a few drinks. I was expecting it to be a bigger deal, but we had to get straight into exam revision (well, other people did. I was lazy), so there wasn't really time to celebrate.

crazy cabbage · 12-08-2012 07:28PM

Didn't go to any class. Just hung around and had the craic with the teachers. There were all dead on. Went home at 1 and came back in at 6ish in shirts and ties for some stupid mass thing which we all had to sing at. Was in an all lads school so that was..... interesting. Then went to pub and had pints with the teachers before going clubbing

Actully it was really good to see the teachers out drinking with us before we left school. It is ammazing how different they are outside of the school enviroment. Remember doing shots with my english teacher and the art teacher. Was a class night

policarp · 12-08-2012 07:30PM

No more latin, no more french, no more sitting on a hard old bench.

Lollipops23 · 12-08-2012 07:31PM

We hung out in the library/computer lab (which was empty except for us, so we had the craic) for the entire day. Literally three quarters of the year were there. Went off home at lunchtime and got ourselves ready for the ceremony/mass yoke and then went out for a meal and house party that night with the gang. Good times.

My english teacher made us come in at 2pm the next day for bumper revision session, 6 of us showed up(I loved the subject, hence my dedication). Place STUNK of booze fumes.

BUBBLE WRAP · 12-08-2012 07:32PM

Well. I robbed the remote from the science teacher during class, I switched on the projector and he was on redtube.

It was the first time I smoked weed. That was fun. Myself and a female mate then went down the field by the secondary school with a bottle of vodka. we got very drunk and we "did it" in a farmers hay shed, which was in the field beside the school. I just turned 18.

Jellicoe · 12-08-2012 07:33PM

Tied my school tie to the school gates, lit it, strolled off and never looked back.
I was too cool for school, a rebel without a cause.

Now I tell my kids to study hard, pay attention in class, partake in sports.
There's way more competition now for kids, they all have to work hard now to have any chance of getting on in life.

LoYL · 12-08-2012 07:34PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

After 13/14 years in school the day you walk out of class for the last time is a pretty special moment in your life and probably the first time you really feel grown up.

It wasn't special at all..why would it? Another few years of education after it. First time you feel grown up varies I suppose: first shag, first car, first wage packet, first funeral of someone you care about. Last day of school I can't remember because it was long ago.

Big Nasty · 12-08-2012 07:46PM

LoYL wrote: »

It wasn't special at all..why would it? Another few years of education after it. First time you feel grown up varies I suppose: first shag, first car, first wage packet, first funeral of someone you care about. Last day of school I can't remember because it was long ago.

Can you remember your first Buzz Killington post?

LoYL · 12-08-2012 07:54PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Can you remember your first Buzz Killington post?

You asked. I posted. Big deal.

Princessxx · 12-08-2012 07:55PM

Mine was just in june we had a laugh the whole day water balloons and all that teacher pretty much let us have our fun

Then we had a mass that night went the the local pub with few teachers. One of the soundier teachers even ended up at the house party later on that night :P It was some night to remember. Can't believe when I pick up my results wednesday morning I'll never be going back

iguana · 12-08-2012 07:56PM

Mine was 16 years ago and it was tradition to have a big free-for-all water-shavingfoam fight on the last day. My year the teachers decided it wasn't happening so at 3.25pm on the second last day it was announced over the intercom that we'd just had our last day and don't bother coming in tomorrow. So it was seriously anticlimax. But it sort of is anyway, as you graduate two weeks ahead of the Leaving Cert. It's not the easiest to have a blow out about school ending when you have a month of study and exams ahead of you. I think it would be nicer to have the graduation night at the end of June, once the last exam has been sat. That way you can really feel free of it.

Big Nasty · 12-08-2012 08:03PM

Princessxx wrote: »

Mine was just in june we had a laugh the whole day water balloons and all that teacher pretty much let us have our fun Then we had a mass that night went the the local pub with few teachers. One of the soundier teachers even ended up at the house party later on that night :P It was some night to remember. Can't believe when I pick up my results wednesday morning I'll never be going back

Good luck Princessxx!

BUBBLE WRAP · 12-08-2012 08:03PM

LoYL wrote: »

You asked. I posted. Big deal.

Did you not even do anything fun on the last day of school?

12-08-2012 08:06PM

10 years of school, shrug
didnt do anything mad
certainly wasnt an adult anyway

nyarlothothep · 12-08-2012 08:09PM

It was a beautiful summer's day, a Wednesday. I left the gym where my last exam took place and looked towards the gate, thinking "that's it, that's 13 years of prison over, I'm free at last, no teachers, no more schoolyard bullsh1t, no more uniforms, no more homework. I'm a free man, all these years I've looked towards this day and now it has finally come. I am free." I walked back home appreciating the heat and sunlight, everything seemed idllyic, perfect, beautiful, at one in equilibrium. When I got home I took off the leash which I had had to wear around my neck for the past 5 years, I took off my uniform and put on my own clothes thinking that is the last time I will ever have to wear those clothes. I went for a drink or two, I hadn't drank much in pubs so I was a bit tentative in ordering a pint, but I was given one with much aplumb. I got home, played Doom 2 until 11.30 watched Later with Jools Holland, I realised that tomorrow there would be no more school, there would be no more school ever. It was a strange feeling. Que a whole summer of incredible weather and Morrowind, feeling very content and buoyed up with a mixture of naievety, mercurial purpose and optimism.

Namlub · 12-08-2012 08:10PM

Had a drunken conversation with a few of my teachers in the pub and now I do not wish to see them again...

Getting results this Wednesday will more than likely be my last time in the school, kind of weird to think about but I'm ready to move on.

eth0 · 12-08-2012 08:12PM

Uniform straight into the fire. Horrible uncomfortable yokes and they had to be bought from this ould pair of biddies for a rip off price though all they contributed to society was importing them from China or some other third world sh1thole

Big Nasty · 12-08-2012 08:25PM

Namlub wrote: »

Getting results this Wednesday will more than likely be my last time in the school

You just reminded me of a younger friend still in school that we 'kidnapped' a couple of years after leaving school. We were going on the batter at 2pm on a Friday afternoon, I was at the wheel while two of the lads (both ex students so recogniseable and in no way related) went in to announce that a family member of said friend was at deaths door and their 'brother' needed to leave for the day. Amazingly it worked and all three lads ran out and jumped in the car and we wheel-spun out of there. The year head got suspicious and rang the lads home to sympathise / suss out the story and the lads father copped and played along with it. He still got a bit of a bollocking at home for it though!

Grayson · 12-08-2012 08:42PM

The last day, I think I went home and watched telly. The day the results came out, I went on a bender.

Chuck Stone · 12-08-2012 08:46PM

I murdered a couple of my teachers that day.

Where To · 12-08-2012 08:46PM

Left my last exam half an hour early to go to work.

Agricola · 12-08-2012 08:49PM

1999. I don't remember much about it except that everyone was getting their shirts signed by classmates. I still have that tattered aul shirt somewhere with lots of scrawled signatures in blue marker.
That night we all went to the pub and I remember singing myself hoarse. The place was packed with underage school leavers. Im sure I got completely twisted on 3 pints or something :rolleyes:

omgitsthelazor · 12-08-2012 09:04PM

People just stopped going to class towards the end of school to spend time preparing for the Leaving Cert for about the last month. Would go in and there'd be about 5 people, so many were cutting school the teachers were past caring so it was pretty much a turn up for whatever classes you want kind of thing or not at all if you want.
Wasn't much atmosphere because of that and people were nervous and busy with the leaving cert too.

Finishing the LC was a great moment but it didn't feel like I was at school because we did it in a hall.

Vicar in a tutu · 12-08-2012 09:15PM

I celebrated by drawing a crude picture of my yearhead with a big penis sticking out of his forehead on the wall.

It was such a lovely day, We went to our grad mass ( I didnt cry at all:pac:)

Then we all met up for a meal and hit some club, brilliant night, everyone letting eachother use eachothers ID's, so much alcohol, had a great time:cool:

saiint · 12-08-2012 09:29PM

nowa days they dont tell you when your last day is
they just tell you on the day that it will be your last day ( thats about an hour before school ends) so nothing is planned, we all end up goin on the piss the next night though
no mass

Dangerous Man · 12-08-2012 09:31PM

I didn't feel anything to be honest, can barely remember it.

12-08-2012 09:35PM

It was 12 years ago, I don't remember how I spent the day really, I remember me and my three best friends leaving the school at lunchtime when we were let out, it was lashing down with rain, skipping up the street singing "I know it's over, still I cling, I dunno where else I can go...." helped by the fact that my three best friends were all guys, skipping in the rain.

cynder · 12-08-2012 09:35PM

Last day of school was 21.5 years ago, i was 11 years old. My last day of school was the easter of 1992. I was in 5th class.

I never stepped foot in a school again.

girl in the striped socks · 12-08-2012 09:58PM

cynder wrote: »

Last day of school was 21.5 years ago, i was 11 years old. My last day of school was the easter of 1992. I was in 5th class.

I never stepped foot in a school again.

Why?

validusername1 · 12-08-2012 10:06PM

The feeling of walking out of my school on the day of my last Leaving Cert exam a few months ago was the best feeling ever. Absolutely hated school, so it felt unreal knowing I'd never have to go back

The last proper day of classes though, I just skipped most of the classes like nearly everyone did.. was good enough craic with everyone but I couldn't be happier to be finished with it all now!

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