Four years ago the Class of 2024 began their journey at Foran. Foran is a place where students learn, grow, and build friendships. High school friendships can be incredibly significant and influential in shaping one’s teenage years and beyond.
It is the goal to create friendships that can help students be their best selves. Four years is a long time to develop these types of friendships.
School is an important part of making friends in someone’s teenage years, being surrounded by people for seven hours a day, going to sports and activities with them causes relationships to form naturally.
Senior Cameron Lefebvre states that her friends “kind of grew closer over the years, we all became friends through school.”
Not only are there opportunities to make friends at Foran, but also to make memorie with them. Whether it be at school dances, games, clubs, or other school events there are plenty of memories to be made.
Lefebvre goes on to say her favorite memory with her friends is all of them “hanging out after Semi-Formal.”
School isn’t the only place or thing that can bring people together, sports have a great impact on the relationships formed during high school. Spending time with teammates at practice, games, team events, and even bus rides brings them closer together.
Senior Emma Honcz who plays both volleyball and lacrosse says, “through sports I have made so many friends that aren’t only seniors but underclassmen too, some of my best friends are because of sports.”
Senior year has been filled with events to bring the class together. Going to each event gives the senior class the opportunity to make last memories with their friends.
Honcz also adds “It has been great experiencing the senior events with my friends because I get to soak in time with them before leaving next year.”
Making friends comes with so many good things but also it means that once high school ends you may have to go your separate ways. Much of the class of 2024 are taking their next steps into the world next year although some of them are taking the same steps many are not. Senior Ellen Pan says her and all of her friends are attending different colleges next year.
Pan continues to say she plans to stay connected to them by, “visiting them and meeting up during vacations!” Staying connected to friends from home is important in easing the transition from high school to post grad plans.
Although Foran seniors are going their separate ways at the end of the year, the friendships they made the past four years will remain with them. Foran is filled with friendships that last a lifetime.
