It has been a rather, sad weekend for us Kadena High School c/o 2007 alumnus. We lost one of our own brightest, beautiful friends, Serena Swanland. God, I sound like I'm typing an article. I don't wanna sound like that, its too painful. She was one of my best friends without me even acknowledging it. I'm sure everybody else had time with her and really connected, but its painful for me because I woulda never thought that this tragic event could happen to somebody like her. So it was Friday morning, I woke up at 9:40am to my phone vibrating. Regina called my phone like 3 times. I called back like 5 minutes later and she told me that Serena passed. I was like wait, Sabrina?! She was like no, Serena...Serena Swanland. I was in disbelief...I couldn't...she said it had been on Facebook since that morning. She asked me if I was gonna be okay, I thought to myself, yeah I'll be okay...knowing I wasn't. I hung up and checked Facebook. I stopped what I was doing and broke down, crying like big tears...like I'm talking about the ones that I've been holding in for some years now. It hurt, it hurt bad and I didn't know that it would. When I was crying I was saying "Oh God...why her? Why do I feel this way? Why am I in pain?'. I had to call Regina back because I was gonna be hurt the whole day...she cheered me up some for the moment. I knew I had to talk to people from my class because I felt obligated to...I know they were hurting, especially the ones who were really close to her....Facebook's been pretty cold for the couple of days, we really can't fathom the whole thing because its so surreal. Some people talked to her the day before she was in the car accident. Its just been crazy, and depressin for the past couple days.
We were on the Panther Prowl together, she was the only other one who was in Journalism III with me. I remember when we were debating who should get Editor-In-Chief until Mrs. Mendoza made there be 4 EICs for different aspects of the paper. Junior year, when she signed my yearbook, I thought it was cool that she remembered the classes we were in together since freshmen year.
I'm not too sure how to end this blog, but continue to pray for us, her friends and family, as I will be doing the same. Thanks Serena, for the years that we had on Okinawa. I'm sure you're watching down on us now.
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