”It feels like an ordinary end of term, not like leaving school for good”
They're getting ready to come running out of school – but they can't help feeling they're missing out on something big. With three weeks left until the end of term upper high school-leavers are trying to come to terms with their disappointment, and at the same time have as much fun as they can.
Kristianstad • Publicerad 1 juni 2021
”In spite of hard restrictions we must be grateful that we can celebrate the end of our school days at all”, says Mohammed Benjamin. He and Rutba Raheel, 18, are studying on the care and welfare programme.Foto: Lasse Ottosson
Classmates Aya Alkafri, Rutba Raheel and Mohammed Benjamin are students on the care and welfare programme.
They have sat down in the shade on the grass outside Söderportgymnasiet.
”We're not having any ball, and on our last day only two relatives are allowed. That's not much fun”
Rutba Raheel
Annons
Everything is coming to an end. They feel stressed. There are lots of loose ends to be tied up before their last day.
They have gradually come to accept that that school-leavers this year too will have to tone down their celebrations because of the pandemic.
A lot has been cancelled. Victor Johnsson,19, Aleksander Lukic, 18, Vilmer Norrman, 18, and Leo Berger, 19, on the natural sciences programme at Österänggymnasiet, are trying to make the best of the situation. They are taking the chance to enjoy each other's company before their school days are over.Foto: Lasse Ottosson
It feels like an ordinary end of term, not like leaving school for good.
– We're studying care and welfare, so we can't disregard that, says Mohammed, who would have preferred to have had all his relatives waiting to welcome him in the school yard.
”It feels fine, but I'm going to miss Kristianstad”, says Lukas Nilsson, 20, who moved here from Malmö to go to Riksgymnasiet. He is going to celebrate leaving school at home with his family.Foto: Lasse Ottosson
Rutba Raheel doesn't know exactly what celebrations at home will be like, but she thinks it will be with her closest family members. And she too feels rather disappointed.
– We're not having any ball, and on our last day only two relatives are allowed. That's not much fun.
– It feels like an ordinary end of term and not like leaving school for good, Aya Alkafri points out.
Cameroon Rugg, 20, and Hedda Lunde are students on the aesthetic programme at Drottning Blanka. ”There certainly won't be several hundred people when we celebrate. There will be our families, the class and a few others”, says Hedda Lunde.Foto: Lasse Ottosson
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