Whoopee! We made it! Ben has graduated from high school. Where has the time gone? We moved to Rochelle when young Bennie was two weeks old (actually closed on our house before he was born). Now he’s off to bigger and better things. It was a great ceremony, a time for parents to be proud.
Rochelle Township High School Class of 2008!
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Ben with Grandpa & Grandma Edwards
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wow you graduate from high school in the US?
i though graduation was what you do at university and college? high schools are like secondry schools right?
I dont know what to say about graduation, as i dont know what it is, so is congratulations alright?!?
They even graduate from middle school (8th grade) in these here parts. The eight graders wear robes and everything (no square beanies, though).
I guess high school and secondary school are the same thing. It does have its significance because some don’t go on to college (or university). So this is the only graduation they’ll have. Ben is going on to college in the fall to pursue a degree in computer systems engineering.
My graduation ceremony is next weekend. It’s so surreal to think it’s here…
Congratulations to Ben!
…and to Bruce for getting his beard back.
In USA, eith graders wear robes?
Here we just wear a shirt on the day that we receive the diplom, and in the party day, we need to wear smokings to dance with all the parents…
A PIC of my eith grade party:
I’m the guy on the right (right of the viewer)…
Graduation ceremonys are fun 
After the traditional dance, the DJ plays a lot of cool musics and we dance all the night
Our education system is a little different than yours. High school in the UK ends when you are around 16 correct? High school in the U.S. is for “grades” 9-12, and ends when you are around 18.
Note: I attended my high school graduation ceremony, but skipped my college graduation ceremony. I opted to have my diploma mailed to me instead of driving 4 hours back down to Blacksburg to attend the ceremony.
You can leave school when you’re 16, or you can stay on until 18 in high school. Many people do the 16 - 18 bit in a sixth form college rather than a school. Still, you don’t graduate until you leave university (which less than half the population do), so most people in the Uk never graduate from anything.
Having said that, I’m graduating my MEng on the 26th of september
For your edification:
Rochelle Middle School (6th-8th grade) graduation photos
Rochelle Township High School graduation photos
Thanks! I saw in movies robes, but here i never saw anyone wearing one… I studied in a USA School here, but we just weared smokings…
Robes are used in other social partys and ceremonys?
It’s funny because we aren’t so distant, and there are a lot of different habits!
Big graduation open house at our house today. Free food!!!
We’ve invited half of the population of Rochelle. If you’re in the area, please stop by. 
My grad ceremony is today at 2:00.
Tomorrow, there should be pictures a’plenty.
have fun! Oh oh free food… Shame theres none here though, I’m starving.
I don’t understand. How does ben have two right hands both coming from the same purple robe? 
congratulations! I don’t have any pictures up yet but I just graduated also. I will try to get some pictures up some time todayish.
