Graduated!

[Tupac Shakur]

btw, you might find this terrifying but HC has an identical twin.

He must be the smart son, as he doesn't post here.

[Hauldren Collider]

He does lurk though.

[Jon Miller]

In Stockholm, on graduation day, all the students (age ~17) seem to be put on big trucks (industrial/etc, not private ones) which drive around the city while the students standing inside the back drinking beer, spraying it on each-other, screaming and making noises (and sometimes flashing the people in the city). I thought it was strange.

JM

[MRT144]

My school had an official grad-night celebration too, probably for similar reasons. For some reason, it didn't occur to them to forbid bringing beverages, so a lot of students brought bottles of "Sprite." Like all the rest of high school, it was a miserable, alienating experience for me. Damn, am I glad my adolescence ended that night. Anyway, congrats, and I assume you'll pick a more useful college major than I did.

I had my TEFL certification "graduation" party last Saturday, as it happens. Three jello shots, two mojitos, a screwdriver, a rum and coke and a sangria, all in about two and a half hours. Then I stumbled to the cab, had an emotional goodbye with my equally hammered classmates, then rode home to my pregnant wife so I could get a couple hours' sleep before flying to Lima yesterday morning. Good times.

Are you sure your name isn't Kirk?

[Elok]

Kirk? Wut?

[Asher]

Captain Kirk was a TEFL-certified ESL instructor in Peru.

[Elok]

Then how come he never had the replicator engineer him pollo a la brasa with a pisco sour?

[Al B. Sure!]

Captain Kirk was a TEFL-certified ESL instructor in Peru.

Is that seriously his back-story?

[C0ckney]

[BlackCat]

In Stockholm, on graduation day, all the students (age ~17) seem to be put on big trucks (industrial/etc, not private ones) which drive around the city while the students standing inside the back drinking beer, spraying it on each-other, screaming and making noises (and sometimes flashing the people in the city). I thought it was strange.

JM

Not strange at all - you can see the same in Denmark and probably Norway.

Congrats HC

[Al B. Sure!]

In Stockholm, on graduation day, all the students (age ~17) seem to be put on big trucks (industrial/etc, not private ones) which drive around the city while the students standing inside the back drinking beer, spraying it on each-other, screaming and making noises (and sometimes flashing the people in the city). I thought it was strange.

JM

Puerto Ricans are like that here. Maybe not on industrial trucks, though.

[pchang]

http://information.tjhsst.edu/gradparty/documents/2011/2011_rules_poster.pdf

That still leaves hookers

[Dinner]

http://information.tjhsst.edu/gradparty/documents/2011/2011_rules_poster.pdf

Boring! Was there at least an after-after party or do those poor yuppy kids have to wait for college to have a good time?

[Dinner]

If you don't show up, we call your parents, if you leave early, we call your parents, if you dissappear within the facility for more than 5 minutes we call your parents, if your parents dont pick you up within 5 minutes of the "party" ending, we call your parents, if your parents call us, we will call your parents back.

Just about everyone at my high school would have just not showed then later told their parents the official party sucked so no one went but that was before every kid had a cell phone. Besides, our prom was in a high rise hotel downtown so most couples rented a room and invited friends up if they wanted to party. The room service guy would not check I.D.s if you tipped him $10 so it was an expensive option but you could get beer or liquor that way or you could just drink the stuff in the mini fridge or bring your own. It's wasn't hard.

[Asher]

Boring! Was there at least an after-after party or do those poor yuppy kids have to wait for college to have a good time?

Do you know what yuppy means, Oerdin...?