The Graduate

This has been a very busy weekend! No matter how much I want to I am just finding it hard to get my blog posting back to normal! I hoping that after all my promsises I have made to you about posting more that this will finally get updating more frequently starting this week. This weekend was madness, in a good way. I am now a college graduate with a degree from The American University of Paris! My college journey took me a long way as France is actually the fourth country that I studied in. Greece, Turkey, and the U.S. are the others. I couldn’t have picked a more perfect place for me and I only wish I had realized it two years earlier so I would have spent four years at the university instead of just two. I’m feeling a bit bitter sweet about the whole thing…

The ceremony was held at the world famous Theatre du Chatelet.

The venue was stunningly beautiful.

I wish I had gotten some more (and better) pictures of the whole thing but it was very hectic and I was trying to the enjoy the moment without worrying about documenting it.

My grad outfit was very girlie as usual. You can see some of the details here.

And the decor matched it perfectly!

There were champagne toasts…

Followed by a lovely lunch with my parents and sister at Mariage Frères.

It’s been hot here finally! So we went for our tea iced rather than hot…

And these are literally the biggest glasses of ice tea in the world! They hold a whole pot!

So now that I am grad I will be sticking around Paris to continue working in advertising. The bad news is though that this next three months is going to entail a lot of me traveling back and forth between Paris and New York to get my work papers sorted out as me and my employers have had to bend over backwards to try to figure out the best way to ensure everything will be approved. Unfortunately the most sure fire one is the longest process of them all but I am trying to be patient. I feel so lucky that my company is so nice and doing everything they can to keep me in Paris. They really are great people! Congrats to all you other new graduates out there as I know I have some readers that are celebrating the end of studying as well! I can’t wait to share with you in my next post the pics from my graduation party cruise!