I'm graduating!

[Potholer]

I'm back down to Dunedin this weekend for my graduation. How scary... I'm meant to be all grown up. I like how I always see others as big and grownup and then I get to the same stage....and nothing changes. I finished primary school, didn't get much more mature (I'll be honest ) I got through high school, I was a uni student - still as dumb and naive as I've always been. I'm graduating. I'm entering "a new stage of my LIFE" and.... besides a healthy dose of confidence and a little more life experience....still as dumb and naive as always.

It doesn't matter what I've achieved, it's what's in my head that matters. And I'm not ready to grow up so it seems easy enough to put it off... hasn't been so difficult so far.

An undergrad degree doesn't seem that awesome now that I've got it. Maybe it's cos it's only a BA haha. It means more overseas right? Cos the most it's got me is a menial job in a government department....sadface.

But yeah, a graduate with a Major in Psychology and a Minor in Anthropology. I hope you're proud, adoptive Ma .

 

[Snowbaby]

congrats Potty!!!!!!!!!!!!! you must be so proud of yourself!!

 

[Potholer]

, well when you make a big deal of it like that, then yes I am pretty pleased with myself . otherwise....it just doesn't feel like that big a deal....BAs really aren't that difficult. Though maybe I've just softened all those horrible hardcore assignments that I had, late nights, stressed out of my mind..... ok, yes, yes I am pleased I made it all the way through!

 

[thistle]

. I hope you're proud, adoptive Ma .

course I am !!! Well done P. As for not being a big deal .... pardon??? getting a degree is pretty huge deal IMO so stop underestimating yourself no matter what happens now, you have that degree for life !!!!

Now do as your told .......... go out, celebrate and tell EVERYONE (even random people you have never met) how clever you are , if you're really lucky you might even score a few free drinks lol

 

[Potholer]

Tehehe thanks T! Ok ok I will! I'm going to one of the bestest student bars tonight while I'm in Dunedin. Dad says he hasn't actually been there so he and my brother are coming along (and a whole lot of other people they don't know about who I've invited so we can have a beer to ourselves). I'm excited. i hope I don't trip over my gown or something (cos I'm like super short and Ijust don't think out they rent out fitted grad gowns!)

 

[Potholer]

I did it! I wore my cap today and shoke hands and I have a certificate of my degree and I walked through the rain (standing between two people who each had an umbrella and someho managed to get the runoff from BOTH umbrellas so got to the town hall pretty damn wet. But it was awesome! And I got super nervous and amped about getting up on stage (so much tripping potential!). But all good, lots of photo posing and all that, got the most beautiful graduation presents from my grandparents (a bracelet with a silver scroll and my initial "J" on it and an antique necklace with a real sapphire in it, it's so beautiful and delicate)

Dinner tonight with friends and family at an italian restaurant. And then getting on the celebratory drinks, baby.

Apparently I've entered a new era of my life and...kinda feels like it.

 

[Snowbaby]

Sounds fab Potty!!! The jewellery pressies.... how precious. We need pics!

 

[Potholer]

I got some!

These are the ones from the pro phtoographer we got (actually a friend of my sister's...but also awesome photgrapher).

Here is Sheryl (my sister), me and her best friend Gabby under The Archway at uni (it was positively pouring with rain so this was the ideal spot for photo taking:

And here is one of the family -

It almost looks like we've been photoshopped in..... that's the quad behind us, one of the older parts of the uni, where the clock tower is that rings every hour and half hour. It's really picturesque. I'm hoping there will be other photos, from mum and dad and more from sheryl (I forgot my camera! *blush*)