Graduation....

My sister graduated from Chiropractic school on Saturday.

It was a very interesting graduation. For the most part, I think everyone already had graduated from college. My sister said her class size was less than 100 so I figured graduation would be pretty small, intimate and quick. Sadly, I was mistaken.

Graduation was at a theater and instead of opening the doors early they wait until all the graduates family and friends are there and then they open the theater doors. There is no assigned seating, so it is like a cattle herd flowing into the pen. Old people are so slow. People with strollers (I wasn't one of them)...but you can't push a stroller in a theater aisle. Other people are 'saving' 20 seats. Not the most organized start.

Okay, no problem...I can deal with that...lets get to the program. The real pain begins. The eastern medicine valedictorian gets up to speak and:

1. English isn't her first language.

2. She typed a LONG speech and lost it. Good thing, right? She will wing it and make a short and sweet speech...NOPE.

3. She talks and talks and talks.

4. I can dig a long speech, I can even deal with the broken english...but the chick had absolutely no point to her speech. It was...no joke...about 20 minutes of crap.

5. I think she was valedictorian because her teachers didn't want to listen to her so they just gave her an 'A' to shut her up.

Literally this girl had no clue. I had to bite my tongue...HARD...to not boo her. I kept thinking of Showtime at the Apollo and was praying the music would start and the clown would come out and give her the hook!

I lean over to Aya and whisper whoever is next is going to ROCK because even if their speech sucks it has to be better than that chicks! Wrong! Dead wrong. So wrong! The next two professors, don't even speak ENGLISH! They had the thickest asian accents ever. How in the world the school would ever let these guys be SPEAKERS at a graduation is beyond me?!

I really give my sister credit now. To graduate listening to those bozo's...amazing!!

Finally we get to my sisters graduating class. The valedictorian is blond so I know this girl will speak english and now her speech is going to rock. Nope. Boring. Not inspiring. Nothing. Amazing, that these people can not give a speech. I am not asking for something long, funny...but something decent. C'mon, 3.99 GPA and you can't inspire or stir the crowd?

There was only one good speaker...the last guy. Funny, inspirational quotation and a short speech. Really, not difficult.

Good thing my sister thought the speechs were lame too...if not she would probably just think I am complaining about being there...which I am not. I wanted to go to the graduation I just thought it would be better.