I’ve been through four major graduations myself (high school, bachelor's degree, master’s degree and law degree), I’ve been to lots of other graduations (Michelle’s Bachelor’s degree, Brenton’s, Jameson’s, Jessica's and Rebecca’s high school at least and probably a few others). I’ve even missed some graduations (Brenton’s Jameson’s and Jessica’s Bachelor’s degree). Each one was amazing. Each one a time to celebrate and congratulate.
After last night, we had a great time celebrating and congratulating Rebecca, our newest graduate. Her graduating class was 85 people. Because of the small class size, they were able to take more effort to recognize each of the graduating students. But I’m getting head of myself. Here’s the evening from the start.
As we walked onto the school grounds, they had two elephants to greet everyone. The riders threw flower petals on people’s heads as they passed. This elephant is named Morning.
You then passed through a tunnel decorated with lots of small lights.
A ‘band’ was playing. There was this guy on the water bowels. Played with chop sticks btw.
This guy on the dulcimer.
And these guys playing the drums and what looked like toys.
They’ll probably never make the top 40, but it provided an appropriate backdrop to the evening.
You couldn’t even recognize the gym as they really know how to decorate it up. You’ll see flowers everywhere, lining the walls and dropping from the ceiling. They smelled amazing. The graduates came in and stood in the back.
While they were there, they had a short slide show with two pictures of every graduate and their selected quote. The top people quoted seemed to be Michael Jordan, Dr. Suess and Ghandi. There was even one graduate who selected a Marlyn Monroe quote that was about a paragraph long. I didn’t know she ever said that much.
After the obligatory speeches, the graduates received an actual diploma, with their names on it. None of that “silly place holder things until we see if you really did graduate” stuff over here.
Of course the tassel turning thing happened. Trust me, Rebecca is up there somewhere.
And it was all over except the recessional and pictures.
Becca’s going to BYU in case you didn’t know.
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