It
was advertised as the last big gala of our law school careers. And indeed, it
was big. It was huge. It was tremendous. In the gorgeous Capitale, we had
exactly three hours and twenty minutes (Americans are really strict on when to
end a party) to officially celebrate ourselves, our time in New York, our
successful study at Columbia, our new friendships and everything else one more
time! When you saw stunning evening dresses, elegant smokings, skillful
hairstyles, and surprisingly many more or less artistic bound bow ties, you
started to realize that these amazing, inspiring, awesome nine month really
come to an end. Delicious food (Where was the strongly advertised dessert??),
open bar fulfilling almost all wishes, an impressive hall – the setting was
perfect to start saying farewell! American-style (very) loud and diverse music
(even during dinner) made also sure that talking remained an attempt, or at
least that no one could understand what the conversational partner was trying
to articulate (it was probably about the plans what will happen next (which meant
that the year is over now) – so “Oh so interesting” and “time flies” was
anyways always the right answer, no one could hear) – party, party joyful was
the main motive of the evening. I think no further comment is necessary here... Let's sum it up like this: A great night for a sad reason - but if you say good bye like this, it makes it easier.
