Saturday, March 7, 2009

Ring ceremony

A quick little thing about Gymansium 1 is that the seniors have a ring ceremony to show that they have "graduated" from that school. Everyone dresses up in formal wear and strut their stuff. Their classroom teacher that they have had for three years presents their rings as if it were a diploma. Each class creates a video to show each person in their class which is around 30 students. The videos were pretty good and well done. At the end of the ceremony teachers are given a ring by one of their students. A boy named Janis gave me my ring with a pot of flowers. Giving flowers is also a big tradition in Latvia. Afterwards, the families of the seniors join them at the school for snacks and other things. I'm no sure what those other things were because I didn't stay to look. :( It was a good time and the students were very excited about getting their rings. I can't wait to show my either. :)

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