As a follow up to the graduation ceremony at the Canaan High School, Carlo and I attended the graduation ceremony at the Chimirol Grade School on Saturday, December 18th. Asdrubel, our animal wrangler, invited us because his son, Anthony, was graduating.
In Costa Rica, students attend grade school, escuela, through 6th grade. Since there is no middle school in Costa Rica, the next step is high school, colegio. To commemorate this big step, there is a graduation ceremony. It is just as well attended as that for high school. Although unlike the high school event, this one started on time.
The event was very festive with music, songs, dancing and lots of applause and even more photos being taken. In addition to graduating from 6th grade, you also graduate from kindergarten. These little kids are so cute in their uniforms and sashes – see photo.
It was great to see everyone and to see the neighbor’s kids graduating. In addition to Anthony, there was Leandro our hotel manager’s nephew. Leandro has helped me with my Spanish and I have helped him with his English. There was also Jimmy and Helen, our 2nd cook Gilberto’s kids that graduated. In total, there were 17 graduates from Escuela Chimirol for 2010.
Good luck to all of them in high school in February 2011.
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