July: Graduation & Goodbyes

On July 6th, I graduated from INSEAD with my official master's degree in business administration. Leading up to the graduation were many dinners and countdowns to the final days of full-time life at INSEAD. My team sans Nil took time to picnic near Pedro's chateau. (Pedro lived in the guard tower of a fantastic chateau.) This nicely organized outing was one of my more memorable experiences with my P1 / P2 team. Ranjit invited Ramya and they have since married November 2006!

INSEAD graduation is at Versailles. It is about a 45 minute drive from Fontainebleau and I must admit Versailles Palace is a slightly different experience than Gregory Gym...the location of my graduation from the University of Texas at Austin.

On y va...later, we met with our village people crew in Paris for a very nice pre-graduation party dinner. Guillaume guided us to this nice restaurant. Around the table from Rebecca, me, Anne, Guillaume, Ashish, Snehal, Tim, Colleen, Gemma, and Paul. By nationality: USA, USA, USA/French, French/USA, Indian, Indian, Brazilian/USA, China/USA, Australian, Australian...back to Rebecca.