Graduation 2008

For those playing the waiting game at the moment. Here's the vids from my graduation in August '08.

A little bit of a reminder as to why you're putting yourself through the stress and pain of the initial application process

Thanks mate. Seems so long ago.
Fish

It does seem like a lifetime ago... Almost a year now Fish!

Oh I cant wait!

Nice work!

We never got the video of our graduation, dunno where it disappeared to, a bit of a bummer really :-(

Thanks for posting those! Light at the end of the tunnel. There's lot's of hard yakka though before that day I'll bet!
I remember now, you were all graduating while we were in Northern Ireland (NZ Police Pipe Band). Sorry about the noise during your final exams........ My turn will come though!

Who was the poor buggar with the broken arm!

It was his thumb if I remember correctly. I had a broken finger from the same incident, I was tough though and didn't need a cast

Fish did you have a broken bone too from that day in the gym?

Mine was much fancier

We had a full pipe band

I have to admit to holding back the laughter when the national anthem was played... They couldn't have found a cheaper version!

ZE wrote:It was his thumb if I remember correctly. I had a broken finger from the same incident, I was tough though and didn't need a cast

Fish did you have a broken bone too from that day in the gym?

Brent broken his thumb and I cracked the index finger and dislocated my thumb.I think we had a couple of summits to ease the pain that night.

Man our Haka was awesome.

That's right. It was a good blow out in the gym that day... Pitty it ended with so many broken bones. The drinks in the bar that night went down a treat though

Our Haka was pretty intense.

That Haka was great. Do the Hakas change every wing? I saw another version out there for the Governor General's Wing early last year.

The college Haka stays the same (actions may change a bit). But we added another one in for us girls to have our turn up front.

I'm curious here... what where you guys doing in the gym that day that left so many of you with broken bones ??

Errr... Non compliant hand cuffing It was a bit of fun. Basically just an all in rumble.

Sounds like fun.. even though there's a bit of pain involved

It was the only time that they allowed the exercise.
Not sure why. Was a good whey to blow off steam.

It was cool fun when we did it.

I loved it. It was a great exercise. It was just a shame I ended up underneath two very large men.

?!? We still talking about handcuffing right? Otherwise I think this thread has to be moved pronto!!!

lol i agree riksta! Good to see a vid of the end result though- you can see that look of jubilation to finally be past that final post

riksta wrote: ?!? We still talking about handcuffing right? Otherwise I think this thread has to be moved pronto!!!

Just read my post again... Does sound a bit dodgy.

Got my copy of graduation video sitting near the dvd player. Haven't watched it yet but gonna pull it out in the anniversary and have a watch.
What a day that was...nearly enough to bring tears to a grown mans eyes!!!

Yep, it was a big occasion. We discussed it prior; I wasn't gonna throw my hat in the air but was persuaded to by the staff, who said you look like a tosser if you don't - I was just concerned with my hat being switched with some other fella's...or fellesses.

So we march out, I throw my hat in the air with a big "yippee!!" - staff didn't say anything about doing stuff like that but I thought it would add to the occasion. Anyway, my hats in the air, along with 78 others, I turn around...and there's one of the boys, sobbing his eyes out!!

He kinda stumbles towards me - I by now had a stunned mullet look on my face - and I quickly retrieved my cap (I'd watched it like a hawk as it fell) and I had no choice but to give him a big man hug, all the while thinking "there, there, you'll be ok...ya big girl".