Emily graduated from Colegio Franklin D. Roosevelt the American School of Lima on May 30th. She earned the International Baccalaureate diploma and as you can see is ecstatic to have survived. The IB is intense with no breaks from homework for the past two years including over the summers. Her regular classes ended April 24th but then she had exams, 15 tests over a three week period.
She earned an award for Spanish for the second year in a row
and she won the President's Gold Award for Educational Excellence and Achievement.
The principal had all of the Gold Seal recipients announce where they were going to college. It was an impressive list of NYU, Duke, Parson's, BYU:) and the ever popular gap year from the Asians.
Emily loved her teachers
and they loved her or maybe they loved the cookies she gave them at the end of each semester. She had the same teachers and classes for two years.
Friends from school.
Emily invited
these seven from church who dressed up and sat through all of graduation. No one should be expected to make that kind of sacrifice.
We celebrated by taking them to the private room of a restaurant and they ate until the food coma set in.
Emily only had 104 in her graduating class so with a 2 hour graduation there was time for talks and awards and an awesome senior band. I never thought one of my children would have the Peru national anthem sung at their graduation or the American Ambassador to Peru in attendance, but it was a great night.
School's out.
