Torrey Graduation! yes and YES!!!

I graduated from Torrey!

It's a classical education program at Biola that's centered around the discussion of great books. Instead of taking normal English and Philosophy and Bible classes at Biola, I got to read the great works of literature and discuss them with this fun bunch of Olympians:

As someone who said "i hate reading and writing" in high school, it feels good to have graduated from a program where I read about 300 pages a week and wrote big papers each semester.

my sweet bird loving roommate, Ro
who will have her torrey ring next year!

my sweet friend Blythe who TOOK ALL THESE PHOTOS FOR ME! thank you thank you thank you! i've never seen so many photos of my face in one place. I think I had forgotten what I looked like... always being the photo-taker instead of the photo-subject

me and all my friends. :)
blythe ro danika me donny lauren and tim in the back

can we all love how fun my family is?
this is heather and ryan

and DONNY! Boyfriend!

oh, rewind: this is the actual graduation part.
in line to sign the red book

Dr.Reynolds (the Director!) and I

the ring the ring the ring
graduate from Torrey yourself
and you TOO can have your very own Torreyring.
turns out my right hand middle finger is a size NINE.
is that big?

my tall family, minus cars and dad

my awesome and amazing boyfriend again
in his awesome and amazing sweater

a deep thank you to all of the people in the photos above, for supporting me through this, and for engaging in my newfound love of discussing everything in life to the nth degree.

and to my dear group, Olympia, best wishes to all of you.

so yay!
only.... a year left of school.
i graduated Torreys, but not quite done my art units.


mmmmmmmmm.
schoooooooooool.
shannon