Well the month of June is a very exciting time of the year for people who live in Sweden. It includes the national day, end of school, and the long awaited beginning of summer!
June 6th is Sweden's national day where many people gather in the city parks, listen to music and speeches by important people, and showing off the blue and yellow colored flags!
There were university students in the park preforming for whoever walked by and wanted to listen and be entertained during lunch or a picnic.
With the ending of school came days spent on the fields with friendly (yet competitive) class competitions and end-of-year pool parties!
And the final day of school included receiving my (PASSING) grades, watching the class older than me graduate (which just happened to be in Uppsala Castle!!)
The class that graduates wears suites and white dresses along with what look like Sailor hats. After they have the speeches and the teary eyed goodbye's they get to run out of the front doors of the castle to the awaiting crowd of parents and family members who have made embarrassing posters with baby photos!
After that each class of graduates hope in the back of a truck of tractor drawn trailer that blasts music and drives around the city. Seeing as there are more than ten 'high school's' in Uppsala and almost every class has a float...Traffic doesn't move very quickly!
To celebrate Alva and Emma graduating from their classes and on to a new school next year we went out to a nice dinner!
Emma's end of the year school graduation type thing was held outside in the what was trying to be good weather! The littlest kids at her school sang, her class, sang, little kids danced, teachers sang and it was all very nice! Emma played her violin with a friend for many of the songs!
Afterwords her class had a picnic across the street (in the sun!!) where the teacher could say a little bit more meaningful and personalized goodbye to Emma's class.
Later that day I picked my parents up from the airport,
but those adventures deserve their own blog post soon to come!!!
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