And now what?: Graduation day

So, now everything about the food is told we can go on to the actual graduation day. This was such a different one than we ever do in The Netherlands. At 10 I had to pick up my robe and the tickets for myself and my parents. Stress! I had a great plan where my hair would have lovely curls, but by 5 to 10, there was no single decent curl to be found yet. So I ditched the idea and went for shoving in some bobby pins and running to uni to pick everything up. The strong wind made my attempt to curls even less impressive and the robe turned out to be mainly super annoying. his means I was just stressing out (for no real reason) by the time we had to go in. Maybe it's fair to mention that I was only wearing my dress, nylons and the robe, while it was absolutely freezing. But by the time we were all sitting in the warm Great Hall I felt a lot better.
The ceremony looked a lot like a scene from Harry Potter and was slightly ridiculous. And the moment I had to go on the stage to receive my diploma was rather nerve wrecking (yes, the whole 10 seconds of it). So much could go wrong! I could trip on my way up, could get caught in my robe or hood, drop my diploma, trip on my way down or have my body doing some kind of uncontrolled movement. But luckily none of this happened and me and my diploma made it back to my seat safely.
After the ceremony, it was picture time! and lucky us, it was raining. So much fun to graduate in December. We decided to take most of our pictures inside the Parkinson building, and some brave ones in front of it on the steps. We even took a picture with out professor Jane (now people can see who this lady is I keep telling all these funny stories about).
When the picture banter was over, it was (guess, guess) food time again (not surprising). We had a lovely lunch at Thai Edge with a groups of us and the parents.

In the evening I went to my last zumba class with Sara. So sad! I'm afraid I will have to come and do some zumba in Italy with her so it's definitely justified to take some trips there.