Transition to Alumni

Saturday morning, graduation day, dawned bright, sunny and blue skied. My parents (who had flown over from Hong Kong for the ceremony - brilliant!) and I quaffed large amounts of coffee before getting in the hire car up to the Ferdinandeo palace. As parents had seen pics of classmates, and vice versa, everyone thought they recognised everyone else - and the fact that not all parents and relatives could communicate in the same language didn't stop people from chatting happily.
The ceremony itself had quite a bit of input from us in the class. We wanted to have a ceremony that reflected us all - something personal to the 30 or so of us who were graduating.

There were a few sniffles in the house when Andrea, the head of our course spoke, and reflected on the group and the year gone by. And the speech from Vladimir the head of the ham company who made the key note was very inspiring.







Moving words, and the great setting of the hall at the Ferdinandeo Palace, all washed down nicely with yet more prosecco in the garden.
Of course there was also the the obligatory hat throwing moment too - marking the moment at which we go from being students to being alumni! The real world beckons again.