Graduation
High school graduation season has begun! Most schools around here hold their graduations sometime in May and school's out shortly thereafter.
Roy being a teacher means that we attend at least one graduation each year (sometimes we attend the graduations of other schools that he's previously taught at) and then several receptions afterword. This past weekend we attended the Revere High School graduation in Ovid, CO (that's where Roy teaches). I like small town graduations. Like prom, there is time enough to focus on each student. At my graduation there were 400 students sitting out on the football field and it was painful enough to wait through just the reading of each name as we walked across the stage. At Revere's graduation this year there were six graduating seniors. The processional was a bit strange with just six kids, but the rest was very nice.
If you go to any graduations in this area, you'll get to watch a slide show of the kids. Each student gets so many slides to show pictures of themselves from birth till now - it's very endearing to the parents and grandparents! Depending on how many kids there are, the slide show can be the longest part of the ceremony. Then the kids always get a chance to give roses to their parents and grandparents, which leaves lots of teary mothers in the audience. The valedictorian speaks and maybe they have a special speaker, too. Finally the kids walk across the stage and as they do someone reads off their future plans and scholarships. It's a bit more personal and intimate than the big school experience.
After the ceremony comes my favorite part - parties! Almost all kids have some type of reception, whether its combined with other grads at the community center or at their own house, with food and cake and a table. The table is something I had never seen before I lived in South Dakota and then here. The table is the special place where everything symbolic of their time in high school is laid out - photos, medals, albums, art projects, football helmets, rodeo queen crowns, etc, etc. And there's always a box or basket for cards and a pile of gifts shoved under the table! I think it's a pretty cool way to celebrate the student and I've seen more than a few moms reminiscing at their own child's table!
Another thing that shows up at graduations and weddings around here are cream cheese mints! I had heard about them here and there, but hadn't tried them until last year - yum yum! If you're ever invited to some kind of celebration out this way make sure you make a bee-line to the dessert table and look for these little, soft, sugar-coated delights!
Roy being a teacher means that we attend at least one graduation each year (sometimes we attend the graduations of other schools that he's previously taught at) and then several receptions afterword. This past weekend we attended the Revere High School graduation in Ovid, CO (that's where Roy teaches). I like small town graduations. Like prom, there is time enough to focus on each student. At my graduation there were 400 students sitting out on the football field and it was painful enough to wait through just the reading of each name as we walked across the stage. At Revere's graduation this year there were six graduating seniors. The processional was a bit strange with just six kids, but the rest was very nice.
If you go to any graduations in this area, you'll get to watch a slide show of the kids. Each student gets so many slides to show pictures of themselves from birth till now - it's very endearing to the parents and grandparents! Depending on how many kids there are, the slide show can be the longest part of the ceremony. Then the kids always get a chance to give roses to their parents and grandparents, which leaves lots of teary mothers in the audience. The valedictorian speaks and maybe they have a special speaker, too. Finally the kids walk across the stage and as they do someone reads off their future plans and scholarships. It's a bit more personal and intimate than the big school experience.
After the ceremony comes my favorite part - parties! Almost all kids have some type of reception, whether its combined with other grads at the community center or at their own house, with food and cake and a table. The table is something I had never seen before I lived in South Dakota and then here. The table is the special place where everything symbolic of their time in high school is laid out - photos, medals, albums, art projects, football helmets, rodeo queen crowns, etc, etc. And there's always a box or basket for cards and a pile of gifts shoved under the table! I think it's a pretty cool way to celebrate the student and I've seen more than a few moms reminiscing at their own child's table!
Another thing that shows up at graduations and weddings around here are cream cheese mints! I had heard about them here and there, but hadn't tried them until last year - yum yum! If you're ever invited to some kind of celebration out this way make sure you make a bee-line to the dessert table and look for these little, soft, sugar-coated delights!
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