PL is now a Peace site

OK, so today was the very last day before spring break and our previous Principle had gotten ALS last year (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) and as his death wish he wanted our high school to be an international Peace site. So we had a huge ceremony to celebrate it, and also we were honoring Dr. Olson because it was his wish and because he is predicted to die in a few weeks to any day. My whole Synchro team was balling. And we had 3 Peace Poles placed in holders that will go outside our school, which Shako will just have fun destroying next year. It was really sad when they started to talk about Craig Olson. Most of us had to stare at the ceiling to stop from crying, yes me included. tomorrow i will have to post a video, but it was from 1:15 till 2:10, and it was very emotional. I found out he was in the Peace Corp. from 1987 till 1990, he basically made a school in Africa and was headmaster of it. You should have seen him today. even in a wheelchair he was still glowing with happiness just to be in our school again. WE also had all of the foreign students bring flags of the countries they are from and we had around 15 to 25 flags hanging on the track. That was amazing considering that I'm friends with alot of them and never knew that they were born in a different country at all. For instance Tola, he had a whole trimester sitting next to me in science and we always talked to each other but he never said anything. I think that you would have had to be there to get the full effect of it all.