Friday was Cissi's PhD graduation so she is back is Blacksburg! It's only for a week but it is so good to have her back. I miss her so much! The graduation was at the Coliseum basketball stadium so Cait and I went along as the cheering squad.
Luckily she was on the end of a row so I got some photos of her as we waited. (It took them ages to all file in.) And as proved by the photos, some things never change.
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| Waiting to start |
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| never without a camera. |
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| talking. |
The ceremony was very "pomp and circumstance".
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| Flags. |
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| National anthem |
Cissi finally found us and started waving her grad headband. At least I had thought she had. Turns out she was waving to someone else in our direction. Still.
The whole ceremony was really long. They had multiple speeches and a special music arrangement as well as a few other bits that seemed irrelevant. Finally they got to the doctoral awards. It was odd. So few people were clapping. Yes it took a while but still. Cait and I made sure we clapped for everyone. As you can see, not everyone had the same idea. (Grumpy people!)
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| On her way |
At VT, the graduate advisor place the hoods of their students around their necks on stage. (I am so amazingly glad they didn't do this in the UK - those of you who know my history at UCLan will understand why!).
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| Happy. |
At this point Cait and I started wooping and yelling! (Nothing like 2 embarrassing friends!)
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| She heard us! |
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| Getting her hood. |
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| Shaking hands |
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| Official. |
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| The hard part - the steps! |
We didn't get to see her afterwards :-( as we had to skip out and go back to work. (We left after 2 hours and they still hadn't gotten halfway through.)
But Saturday we went to campus to take some photos.
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