is a whole thing in Sweden<\/a>, and more components seem to become necessary traditions with every passing decade.<\/p>\nOne very central part is the utspring<\/i>, the “running out”, where graduating students exit the school building for the final time, en masse<\/i>, and are met by their families in the school yard. Families have signs with photos of their student, often cute pictures of the student as a baby. I imagine it originally started as a way to find each other in the teeming mass of hundreds of people, and then took on a life of its own.<\/p>\n
I kind of remember it being a DIY thing, but maybe I’ve got my nostalgia-tinted glasses on. Nowadays in any case there’s plenty of services that deliver ready-made signs with photo, text, and handle, all assembled. I’m old school, going the DIY route. Today I picked up my photo of Ingrid from the photo printing shop – and half the shop was filled with stacks of graduation signs.<\/p>\n
One thing they have that mine won’t (not easily, at least) is a plastic cover. If we get a rainy graduation day, I’m going to have to scramble a last-minute solution. What mine will have, though, is decorations and trimmings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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