Yesterday Elena graduated for Elementary school. It has been a very quick three years. We showed up at the door step of Conger's Elementary school with two non-english speaking little girls and three years later we have these two wonderful, amazing young ladies. I use the term ladies very broadly. You know cause they are female and they are reminded daily to use their manners and...
Really, they are amazing girls. I could not be more pleased with them.
Elena's graduation from Conger's was to happen at three in the afternoon. The temperature was to hit the low nineties for the third day in a row, so the ceremony was moved to South High School's auditorium. It was such a contrast to last years with Nastia. Last year I was stressed and I didn't tell my boss I was going to it, because it would of caused more trouble for me then it was worth.
And my boss called in the middle of the ceremony. This year we were in the South school's auditorium, it was nice and cool. I was not pleased at the shape of some of the seats in the auditorium. Some were broken and leaned while others were completely missing.
The show started with the principle, Mrs Ryan making an opening statement, and I'm sorry after that I relaxed and woke up only just before they introduced the students to walk across the stage to receive their certificate.
When I was in school, stop it was not that long ago. And yes the dinosaurs were all dead. When I was in school, there was nothing for going from elementary school to junior high, you got a dance.
When I was in fifth grade in 1968, they moved the sixth grade to the junior high. The next year they moved the sixth grade back to the elementary schools saying sixth graders were not ready for junior high. I got to be the oldest grade in school for two straight years. Back then they had something in elementary school called safeties. These were kids who were given badges and told the kids to stay against the wall when they went in a certain direction when we were dismissed at the end of the day. They don't have them any more. I loved being a safety.
After the ceremony, we went to dinner at Charlie Brown's
