Thursday, July 28, 2005

Blast from the Past

I went to my high school reunion last weekend. Was it my 5 year, my 10 year, you ask? No, I’m 8 years out of high school (Let’s Go West High’97!). My school, Norman County West High (Go Panthers!), in northern MN was so small (my class had 24 kids, the whole school grades 7-12 had about 200 kids) that every 5 years they have an “All School Reunion” where everyone who ever went to school there is invited back. I swear- they had 3 people from the class of 1933 stand up for a round of applause.

So here I am, 8 years out of high school, graduated from college, real job, house, just married to the best man in the world- why not go back and brag and see how much better I am than everyone else? Just kidding, just kidding!! I keep in contact with 2 good friends from high school and loosely with maybe a half dozen more, so I wondered what happened to everybody else.

I went, I saw, I conquered! OK, actually, I went, chatted with the others that showed up, looked at the old year book and prophecy, gossiped about the people who weren’t there, drank like the old days, saw a bunch of people I didn’t know, walked around town, checked out the school. The most fun was looking at the yearbook with my classmates and catching up. The least fun was the hangover Sunday morning. ;)

I’m glad I went. I’m glad my hubby came with. I’m glad I got to talk to and see so many folks. I had a good time. Will I go again? Dunno. I think now I’ve been there, done that.

What are your thoughts on reunions?

5 comments:

Fred said...

I very much enjoyed my 10 year reunion. I was still close to many of the graduating class, so it was a blast.

I went to my 20 year reunion, and had a so-so time. I briefly chatted with many people, and then settled in for a fun night with the gang I hung out with at school.

This year, my 30th is actually this week. I'm skipping it due to work commitments. I think it made the decision easier, as I wasn’t too keen to go.

I keep in close touch with those really good friends from high school, and even got together with three of them last summer. So, I think the only reunions I'll be going to are the type that just have my close friends.

Jen said...

Yeah, I don't know...I'm kind of a "leave the past in the past" kind of girl. I mean, I'm in touch with Kacey and Kishelle, my two closest friends my high school. I think, if you don't go to your 10 year (which is what happened to me), then you're kind of screwed for all the future ones. Is anyone gonna really remember me in another 10 years? Hell, for that matter, would they have remembered me at this one?

Nik said...

I'm with you girls on this, I won't go to any reunion. All the people I want to see when I was there, I know how to get a hold of them. Besides,the majority of my friends in high school didn't even go to my school, or were already out of school (for one reason or another, hehehe). The way I see it, I didn't like these people when I went to school, why do I wanna see them now? I think the concept of reunions is cool and it probably would be fun to go to one, but I just don't care enough.

keesh said...

And i say, if you don't go to one you can't say for sure how you would feel about it or not.

I had all kinds of preconceived ideas about how it would be, but like it or not, high school was a large part of my life and I chose to go and figured, worst case scenario, I could walk out the door. But it ended up being such a great time. Everyone changes, it isn't the same as high school.

Jen - no need to psyche yourself out of another reunion yet. GEESH.

Fred said...

LoB - no offense taken. I'm older than dirt.