In Celebration of Graduation!

Graduation was 2 months ago, so this blog post is overdue, but sufficient to say, I graduated with a Bachelors of Arts in Advanced Biblical Studies.  They actually gave me the paper and let me out without a heresy trial (!!!).  This post is for all my blogging friends (ahem, Liz and Leah:) who have this idea that blog posts must always be accompanied with pictures, which I fail at dreadfully.  However, my friends Clara and Melinda photographically documented the events, so there are plenty of pictures to share.  The celebrations began when Clara and Jemima, Jenna, and Liz visited the weekend before as a pre-graduation treat.  As you can see from the pictures, the dorm became a place of high entertainment...

The week consisted of frantically finishing up Greek exegeticals, learning Mail Merge for a random computer class, enjoying Voltron-Kara-Jenna-Joel-Paul-Liz-Celeste-Bekah-Clara chill time in the cafeteria, supper at Steak-and Shake, running around the Plaza at night, invading Barns and Noble, and consuming a significant amount of coffee.

Several days later, Melinda flew in and joined the group for many adventures, one of which consisted of a pilgrimage to a library.  The library trip had a number of sub-adventures, including the stone structure overlooking Hwy 670, the river, the train tracks, and the airport.  Another sub-adventures was a small theater inside a vault complete with red velvet curtains and a large round door.  Upon reaching the roof of the library, we finished off with a chess game with life-size chess pieces.  We attempted to take creepy stalker pictures on Melinda's camera while she was away, but she returned and we barely had time to look innocent...:)  On Sunday evening we escaped campus between tornado warnings to go eat Indian food.  If you have never experienced 20+ people all enjoying Indian food together, you should arrange to experience it.  Oh, and the food tastes better if you eat it with your fingers!

Graduation was a very exciting day in the life of Celeste Mamie Franklin...not like I had been working towards it for five years or anything.

The two female traditional BAs

Rebekah and her aunt also graduated.

 The time with Melinda wasn't long enough...

Free, happy graduates partying!

Most of the CBI peeps...all looking quite typical.  

The Lord was good, and graduation was just one more expression of that.  There were several times when I wasn't sure if I would get that little piece of paper, and I thank God often for the strength and wisdom He gave to complete the coursework.  SDG