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Parenting after 35
KL777
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20 year High School Reunion is this month
KL777
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I'm thinking about going. It's an hour and a half flight away (8.5 hour drive). If I go, I'll be flying.
Anyone go to theirs?
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Re: 20 year High School Reunion is this month
I didn't go to mine. Most my of friends from HS didn't either.
I ended up going to mine 3 days before my daughter 20 months ago. I had to sit through much of the cocktail hour...but I enjoyed it bc I re-connected with some old friends (acquaintances) who now have become friends on Facebook and we're more friendly now than we were back then.... I grew up in a town where everybody knew everybody from kindergarten through high school.. and we all had siblings who knew each other.. etc..
I didn't have to travel far to go, though. Oh.. my close friends (who I'm still friends with... all went without our hubbies... it was expensive per plate price.. so we decided we would have more fun without them and save $100. was a girls night out for us.
I think it totally depends on your personal experience. Personally, I'd go!
I've gone to most of mine over the years, including my 25th last summer. But I come from a tiny town in Iowa where my graduating class was actually very large for our school... 63! Most of the classes now are 30-40 students.
At that size, you're not just reconnecting with classmates, but pretty much everyone in town. They also hold the reunion weekend at the same time as our town's annual festival, so there's always beer tents, a big parade, etc. I think about half of our classmates showed up at some point. It's all very Norman Rockwell.
I did most of the legwork to find my classmates as well, so I was in touch with all but three who are still MIA. That even includes a few who moved away before graduation but we still invited to come. (Including the guy in prison who now is my penpal.. joy.)
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My 20th was this past weekend, and I had no real desire to go.
P.S. I have that same Bible quote you have in your siggy (James 1:17) above Caleb's bedroom door!
Mine was when I was 35 weeks pregnant and there was no way I was going to fly for four hours just for that.
I was crazy thin in high school and I wasn't about to let people see me looking like a whale.
I went to mine. I went to a very small school - we graduated 100 so everyone knew everyone all the way through. It was nice to reconnect with some and see how people had or had not changed. Those that didn't get out of town were pretty much the same as they were 20 years ago and those of us that did escape were changed.
The men seemed to have swelled in size and a lot of the bigger girls from high school had lost a lot of weight, which was really nice to see.
I had a nice experience in high school in that I didn't really belog to any one click so got along with most people so I looked forward to going and seeing everyone. I helped plan it and we did have some folks who we contacted and they said no, and don't call me for the 30 year either. So, not everyone enjoyed their high school years. I think whether you attend or not depends on how you felt about the folks. Although, it was really interesting to see how everyone ended up (we even had one grandma at the reunion!)
I went but a lot of people did not. WAY less turn out then the 10, but lives change and with the economy, I'm sure some couldn't afford it. (I lived in town). I didn't know too many people but I had made arrangements to meet someone there. I have a few ppl on FB now that I wasn't even close friends with in HS. It's nice but I felt pretty out of the loop. So many ppl knew each other since elementary school and I only went to this HS for jr/sr years.