Last day of school today. As Snake says this is the "filler" week, no real school gets done but they need sometime between finals and the last day of school to get grades in, yearbooks signed etc. We went to 2 lovely ceremonies at the school today. The first was the high school award ceremony. Kiki received an award for excellent work in chemistry. She was surprised and so were we. We had been told she was getting an award, but they don't tell you which one so it is a bit of a surprise. I suspected it might be for foreign language but nope - chemistry. So congrats Kiki! Very proud of you.
The second ceremony was the 8th grade promotion assembly. They don't call it graduation here. In a way, I am glad. I am hoping that the height of my children's academic progression won't be 8th grade. I am hoping I have 2 or 3 more graduations to attend for both of them. But it was a very nice ceremony just the same, about 110 8th graders moving on to 9th grade. Each homeroom class gets called up individually and the teacher introduces each child and the child receives a certificate of achievment. Snake was the last person introduced. He is hoping that no one comes with a name past his in the alphabet and maybe he can repeat this distinction in 12th grade as well. It is nice to have goals. Of course moving on to high school here doesn't really mean a new school, it just means a new section of school and you can go up a different color stairwell. Tonight the 8th grade class celebrates the new staircase with a boat party on the Thames.
This time of year is always crazy and I find myself wanting school to be over as much as the kids. I am looking forward to a nice relaxing summer, bbqing, swim team and wedding stuff. All in 6 weeks. So much for relaxing. See you Californians in about 8 days!!
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