ext_37553 ([identity profile] morag-gunn.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] blue_lotus13 2008-04-03 03:32 pm (UTC)

Graduating from high school where I grew up involved a "formal" in mid-June, then what's called "Commencement" in mid-October the year after we all left. That was the part where we processed and got our diplomas.

"Grad" was the name we gave to the formal. You had to be in grade twelve or thirteen to attend (or you could be the date of someone in grade twelve or thirteen). It was a dinner and a dance at a fancy club. I don't think there was drinking, but I was driving so I wouldn't have been drinking anyway. If there was drinking, it would have been only for those who were 19 or older. My date and my group of friends were high on mushrooms for most of the evening.

After grad in southwestern Ontario, people go camping. That's where the drinking happens. I drove my friends and myself to the campground, where we stayed up very late partying etc.

I didn't go to Commencement because I was in BC.

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