A graduating senior at Lester B Pearson High School, we were offered the chance to celebrate our graduation at a banquet, located at the BMO Center, providing the opportunity for students to display their beautiful, jewelled and satin dressed and their smart, pressed and expensive suits. Similar to prom our adjacent neighbour, the States, celebrate, this year’s theme of Eastern Fusion called for mysterious dim lighting, patterned pale orange umbrellas, and vintage eastern lanterns and decoration to adorn our hall.
I’ve decided to write about my experience at my school’s graduation banquet in hopes of informing and exciting future youths as to the rewards and possible experiences they might become involved in, perhaps inspiring them to graduate and come out of their long journey of learning, participating in an experience, I believe, was filled with memories that I will never forget. Besides, after all those exams, all-nighters, assignments and stress, I’d figured it was time to unwind and take a little to celebrate graduating with my graduating class.
The event was truly a memorable one, as my friends and I were hopelessly the “noisy neighbours” at our table, distracting them from their nice, quiet meal. Initially distraught at only being permitted to sit eight family and friends at a table, we were luckily able to order tables that were in close proximity of my other various friends and their family members as well. The night was a whirlwind of chatter and conversation, as our waiters and waitresses served us a pre-determined meal, by our Grad Committee of: Mediterranean Couscous Salad with Tomatoes and Chickpeas, our Entree as an Oven Roasted Chicken Breast with vegetables and Pesto mashed potatoes, and our dessert as a Cranberry Chocolate Truffle Cake with Passion Fruit Coulis.
However, no one in mind paid the $ 70 tickets for the food, because frankly, besides my table noting the apparent dryness of the whole meal, and overly sweet dessert, many graduates chose to skip the banquet altogether, and opted to eat at other arranged venues, or made other arrangements to celebrate the night. However, in my opinion, the $70 was a small price to pay for the priceless memories of seeking out my classmates sparsely spread out throughout the hall, being delighted surprised at the unexpected individual donning princely or princess-like garments, and enthusiastically taking photos with them, or of them.
To cordially end the formal evening and our dinner, before any dances were initiated onto the dance floor, inspirational speeches and performances were presented to entertain, salute and toast the Pearson gradates of the night.
Provided below are some videos of the night of: an amazing vocal performance and a salute to the graduands of 2010, to allow you to experience Pearson’s amazing night as well!
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