Last Friday May, 27th we said goodbye to our seniors, the graduating promotion for The Community for Learning’s school year 2010- 2011. Exitium’ 11decided to pull off pranks in their last day of school, by throwing students and teachers into the pool. Though they might have finished with school, the seniors still have a tight schedule before officially completing their school year. The
graduation ceremony took place Saturday May 28th at the Santo Domingo Tennis Club (Bocha). Our directors, teachers, graduating students, and family and friends gathered for the ceremony which began at 8:00 p.m. with a speech by Carla Meyrink director of the high school. The ceremony continued with some words from Ed
Crawford, Language Arts teacher.
Representing Exitium ’11, Jose Eladio Hernandez and Maria Alejandra Perez gave short speeches full of anecdotes concerning students and teachers. “The speeches were funny and dynamic and reminisced about good times, especially the recent trip to Palmar de Ocoa” Yvette Witte told The Voice. Afterwards the grads were joined by their families for a dinner at Restaurant Olivo.
The seniors then headed to Bavaro (June 1st) for a five day stay at Hotel Flamenco for their prom trip. They are back and ready to work for the next two weeks taking the clinicas for the 12th grade pruebas nacionales which are June 27th to July 1st.
When The Voice interviewed Carla, she indicated that there “Never have been so many students planning to remain in the Dominican Republic to begin their college education” She explained that a major reason for this is the presence of the 2 plus 2 programs that INTEC and UNIBE are offering. These programs are now popular because, first they are new, and second they are accredited by US institutions and by theDominican Republic. This coming year all grads will be studying here except for Neal Rizik who will attendNortheasternUniversityinBoston.
We wish all our grads the best of luck in university and in their professional lives.
Contributed by Evelin Gomez and Laura Garcia Berrido
