With all the fanfare for the new school building sometimes it’s easy to brush over the years we spent in the temporary school. When our parents or grandparents think about their high school legacy, they picture the grandeur of what is now the old high school. When the public focuses on the schools they put the old high school next to the new high school on a timeline. There’s only one problem with that - our high school years have been spent at the temporary building. From Seniors to Freshmen the temporary building is our high school. It shaped out classes and formed our teenage experience. Truthfully, this new high school building is the accomplishment of a generation. We, the students, have put in all our energy to make this new school happen. However, we also put our energy toward making the temporary building a home for our Chieftain family. We have done our part in making Seminole High School better. Now we have to adjust. There are still some minor issues being resolved with this new building but now we have had our first prepared meal in the kitchens, played our first game in the gym, and had our first homecoming dance in the commons. We are making new memories in this new building; we are starting this new decade with open minds and hopeful hearts. Every day we go to classes in classrooms that were just a distant dream not too long ago. Every moment we spend in the new high school building is a dream come true. For the classes of 2020-2024 the new high school is our dream come true. We made the temporary building a home but it’s comparable to a family saving up for their dream home and then getting to move into it only when their children are teenagers. The little, less than ideal house the children grew up in will be what they picture first when they think of their childhood. Just as we will picture the temporary building first when we think of high school. The new school is a dream and will never be our normal because we have lived through something else. We won’t be able to take the new building for granted because we have struggled to get here. This is our dream school, but it will never just be a normal high school to us. We are lucky enough to be the first classes attending the new and improved Seminole High School. This new beginning, in four years, will no longer be new. It will just be the normal. Students attending the school will look at it as their school, there will be no dream added on the beginning. This is an opportunity we get to experience first. It will not achieve its full potential while we are in it, but we get to watch it flourish. This new school is our legacy.