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Wednesday, June 15, 2005 You go, girl! Melissa has graduated from middle-school and will soon start high-school at Cristo Rey. I had no idea what to expect from yesterday's ceremony buy I was a little apprehensive, figuring that the long dresses, the hairdos, the rehearsals, were a little too much for middle-school. What I saw instead was an impressive display of family and friends backing up their girl's education. There were 15 graduates and the church was packed. They wore very simple long silver satin dresses. Melissa had white sandals, a very nice hairdo, light make-up and color contact lenses (in my eye color, in her words). The whole ceremony was bilingual, as many of the parents and guardians do not speak English. The director, a very nice lady who is retiring and who had her mother in the audience, gave a quite moving speech focusing on not being scared to be good, not being scared to be yourself. Then they gave out the awards. Melissa won one of for making extraordinary efforts during her years at the school. One girl, whose mother I talked to later, won an award for not having missed a single day of school in four years!!!!! Talk about commitment! Every time a girl's name was called the whole church erupted in applause and cheers. A few of the kids in the audience looked like bona fide thugs and there they were, clapping away at the academic achievements of a girl. They almost brought the house down when their relative/friend was the one to win the scholarship for high-school. Another girl won an award for sciences, presented to her by a previous winner who is now doing pre-med. I, of course, was choking up every five seconds or so. It was quite an eye-opener. At the party afterwards I was sitting at the table with the family and a few friends, a very nice teacher from Panama among them, while Melissa was inside dancing with her friends. We had an opportunity to talk about what the kids face and I was fascinated by the sheer determination and common sense of some of these parents. Kudos to them all! 10:08 AM
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