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My sister graduated last Friday. The ceremony was a horrible disorganized mess. The graduates had plenty of fun regardless so it wasn't a total loss. None of my aunts, uncles or cousins wanted to go, even her godparents, and yet two of MY friends came, pretty pathetic on my families part. While we were waiting for it to start I ran into alot of old friends I'd graduated with and then was suprised at just how many people I knew in the graduating class.

They didn't have it till 8pm and then got started a half hour late. For some reason there was 3 high schools in the same area on the same day within hours of each other so traffic was a disaster and students were still around from the other schools when we got there. Then people kept walking up and standing at the rails blocking the view for everyone seated behind them. My parents and a few others started getting nasty about yelling at them to move. (There were even signs saying not to stand there.) I've got pictures of my dad walking up to a little girl with a video camera and telling her to shove off (he worded it a little nicer, but not much.) Considering my dad spent 3 years or so as a guard at the State Penn and then went on to become a state trooper he knows how to be scary when he wants to be.

The theme of the whole graduation seemed to be "How bad can we piss off the principal!" And this from both the graduates and the spectators. She's exceedingly unpopular-one of those elitist $%#$ who'll take credit for anything good and make an overblown deal out of even the smallest infractions. She wanted the ceremony to be treated like a somber serious event. She didn't even want the graduates to wear any jewelry because she wanted them all to be uniform. And she flipped out at the sort of inschool ceremony and practise ceremonies because at the first one student brought a beach ball and at the seconds the students were pretending to dance up to get thier diplomas. The end result-- at the real thing many students danced up for thier diplomas and the one male cheerleader in the school did an onstage backflip right before he got his (she refused to shake his hand) and the seniors secretly passed around and blew up a ton of balloons DURING the ceremony and all tossed them into the air instead of their hats at the end. She looked ticked!




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If people had done that at my high school graduation...we wouldn't have graduated. sweatdrop

I'm out of regular college in 2011, but then on to grad school.