Families only were allowed in for the official graduation ceremony… but I was creative with a scrap piece of paper, shaped like an invitation. I guess the guards didn’t look too hard, or want to turn a westerner away; I may have been the only one in the room.

Ah! I wasn’t fast enough with the record button to capture Nina’s name being read off =/… oh well. You get a sense of what it was like in the video.

I was the first one she saw when the 1st formal part was over, and then we found her parents.