Comments on: Rites of Passage

By: Krissy

Krissy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:03:17 +0000

You know what, I always thought it was weird that people had graduations from things other than high school and university. I don’t get it. Maybe just because we don’t have that here. But what’s so important about finishing grade 8? Why not graduate from grade 2? Or 11? I’m just very confused by the whole thing.

But anyway!

By: Kaylee

Kaylee — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:08:53 +0000

I haven’t gone through any of those rites except the graduation from middle school.

*high-five*

By: Damita

Damita — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:06:02 +0000

I still don’t know how to drive and I am 24 now ha ha, gonna leave next year :)

By: Manda

Manda — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:46:40 +0000

Boring as they may be, I am definitely going to attend my college graduation. I want everyone to know when I receive my degree! :P

By: Kayleigh

Kayleigh — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:03:25 +0000

Rites of passage are lame! Rebel! Be anti-rites!

Funny enough, but the only graduation of mine I have ever attended with my middle school one. I missed out on high school in favour of a GED (wooooo!), and went “pfffft lame” for the graduation for my AS degree, and am looking forward to skipping out on my college graduation.

They’re so boring.

By: Clem

Clem — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:36:04 +0000

Aww, I graduated from kindergarten, grade 6, and grade 8. :P I still have a ways to go before my high school graduation, though!

Here I don’t think you can even get your license at 16. You have to take multiple tests, and you have to have a certain amount of time in between. I think if you take the first test on your 16th birthday you still can’t get it until you’re 17.

I don’t really feel the need for a car either; my city has public transport that serves its purpose (although I do complain about it a lot).

I just submitted an application for my first job, eee! (My best friend’s brother can probably get it for both of us.)

By: Tess

Tess — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:42:25 +0000

I think for obvious reasons (because you were travelling), that you didn’t get to experience these things, but it isn’t completely uncommon.

For instance, I don’t have a lot friends, and I hate parties, so my sixteenth birthday bash was mostly family and very, very close friends – I remember going out to eat, watching the “Asylum” episode of Supernatural and falling asleep on my new pillows.

I got my car at 15, which was my Nana’s old car, and I still haven’t gotten my license, and don’t know how to drive. I also haven’t gotten my first job, either, because I’m not yet in college.

You’re not the only one, and I also honestly believe that WE can make our own “Rites of Passage”, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be what everybody else is doing/might have done.