As the last week of school approached, so did Senior Sunset. This is a tradition seniors at Park use to close off the year before graduation. The event was entirely student run as the goal is to have a final bonding time for Parks’ senior class.
Senior Liz Asitimbay, an organizer of this event, valued inclusion of everyone at senior sunset. She said she wanted it to be a time where everyone could come together one last time.
“Rylie Unangst and I made sure that everyone was included and made sure that it was a time that everyone could come,” Asitimbay said. “We wanted everyone to be here especially because it’s kinda the last time we’ll all be together besides Graduation.”
Senior Henry Salita said he sees senior sunset as one last time for his graduating class to be together. It’s the last time they will spend time together before they all go their separate ways.
“I just feel like it’s one of our last hurrahs to come together as a grade and bond with each other before we all go off and do our own things in life,” Salita said.
Senior Vince Cormier said it means a lot to be at senior sunset with his peers. He thought it was nice to have fun with his friends in his final days of high school.
“It means a lot to be here with friends and everything, to get some last minutes in. I was hanging out with friends before this, we went to the baseball game, and it was fun stuff,” Cormier said.
Advice to future senior classes is to live life to the fullest with their peers during their senior year, Salita said. You should try to go to as many events as you can.
“For senior year as a whole, just do everything that you can with your grade. Go to football games, go to sports events, go to senior sunrise and skip day, everything you can because it is the only time you’re gonna be able to do it,” Salita said. “When you’re gonna have to go out into the world and be an adult.”
Cormier said his grade has bonded during their senior year and became much closer. He said that everyone shows up and has fun together.
“Everybody shows up to everything. It’s never like you show up and there’s ten people, it’s been really good. We had a great senior skip day at Cedar Lake Point beach so I think it has been really good,” Cormier said.
According to Asitimbay, these types of events are important to the senior class because it helps everybody come together and It really connected all of the people of her class.
“From freshman year to senior year, a lot of us weren’t together, but now by the end of the year I think we’re more connected as a grade and I think that’s really important,” Asitimbay said.
The next time the Senior class will all be together is on June 4th at 7 PM for Graduation at the Park stadium.
