End of High School Rituals

[jeffreyab]

I basically celebrated ending high school by sending off my upgraded summer school marks so I could get into university.

I skipped the graduation ceremony because it was sometime in November and I had better things to do that weekend with my limited time and esp. money.

Since then I have noticed that this minimalist approach is not at all common and that many people take part in elaborate ceremonies involving limos, gowns and ritual deflowerings ala "American Pie."

So my question is how did you mark the end of high school?

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[andpuff.livejournal.com]

Up here in the Great White Weird (That would be Ontario) we had, at the time, two high school graduations. Like yours, ours, both of them, happened in the fall.

The first was for grade twelve -- where I wore a floor length gown, went to an all night party, got very drunk, complained about Phil Stover beating me out for class poet by three votes (ocassionally, I complained about it to Phil) piled into a classic car (big old 1950's something or other) with eleven other people and one guy in the trunk and ended up with three people passed out on the floor of my apartment. (I moved out of the house at the beginning of grade 12)

Now for grade 13 grad -- which they recently ditched in favour of the standard four years -- I was studying Forestry in Thunderbay and refused to spend money I didn't have to fly back even though they called and asked me to be validictorian.

When I finally graduated from university, I did the cap gown etc then the ex's mother took me out to lunch at the press club. I seem to remember that the food was pretty bad. *g*