Attending a diploma ceremony

Today we got up at 7am to be ready by 8am. [I never realized what a nice temperature it is outside at that time of the day! Maybe I should try getting up before 11 from now on...] We were invited to attend the diploma ceremony of the Academy of the Interiour Ministry. It was very interesting for us to see the traditional ceremony. The students were divided into different units - the final classes, the ones who get their diploma next year and the ones in their first year. You could tell them apart by their dresscodes. They marched, they did some appells (is that an English term?), there were speeches and there also was a music unit playing - oh, and one show act inbetween was a dancing group doing a beautiful walse.

Again I had so much fun taking pictures. Since I had finally read the manual of the camera (a NICON D40) yesterday, today I kind of knew what I was doing - at least compared to yesterday. I felt so professional - let me tell you! Well, this was until I got home and looked at the pictures on my computer. Half of them turned out great and half of them looked like I used my cellphone to take them. What a smack in the face! But I already figured out what went wrong - luckily. I had used the maximum ISO setting after one point, because I (thought I) had read in the manual that it would avoid unfocused pictures when using a long time setting. Not true!!! Well, I'm glad I at least got about 150 good shots and an additional 100 snap shots.

What about my QUIZ posted earlier??? I haven't received many replies yet and not the correct answer either (but some hilarious ones - thanks, we had some good laughs!). Take your chance!