Graduation Day

The very 1st BAS Hospitality Management cohort. We had a wonderful dinner at Salty's on Alki.

We just couldn't take this picture right. We tried 3 times. This was the best one. SAD!!!

It was such a bitter sweet week for me, especially on my graduation day. Although, I'll be back for fall quarter to finish 1 more class, I won't have hospitality courses. NO MORE Tom and classmates I've studied with for the last 2 years. It's actually an insult that I said classmates, I think friends is more appropriate. I wouldn't have made it through some quarters without major encouragements from them. I've shared my most important "beginnings" with the 2009 cohort, it was right after I got married, then when I got pregnant and gave birth, they were a part in the major changes that has truly transformed me to the person I am now. They are an amazing group of people that I will never forget. I know that I will cross paths with some of them and we will get together once in a blue moon, but I won't be in room 204 in the Olympic, sharing our experiences professionally, forming groups to make a final presentation, venting over homework and due dates, and just plain seeing them every Tuesday and Thursday, which as been our schedule the last two years. I wish all the graduates luck with their future and good luck to all that are just a few classes aways from completion. We weren't always friendly but glad we were the first in the program and proud when we saw each other succeed. It was a hard road for me to travel but I'm glad I got to travel it with you...

Khinh, Soledad, Jamilla, David, Bradley, Chaz, Heidi, Jaimie, Ian, Olga, Christian, Marilyn, Andrea, Alex, Will, Theresa, Lisa, Katie, Nancy, and Celia...

(Pictures courtesy of Heidi E.)

I was happy to carry this banner, plus no one else wanted to...lol