I can't believe summer is in full swing and yet I totally believe it by the sweat found on my back from driving in my car. I have missed filling the blogger world in on so many things as the school year came to an end. Everything from the success of Point Break and the new friends I made to how many students we have gearing up for YFCamp this summer. Even the fact that I am once again looking for new place to live has gone unmentioned here. One current thing that is both exciting and strange is that this summer I have the pleasure/displeasure of celebrating a unique milestone...my 10 year high school reunion. At first thought as 2011 approached I was totally weirded out by this fact. But as online conversations began (and my mom sprung for my plane ticket home) I slowly got excited about this milestone. I'm not really sure what makes me so excited to go back to that awful place filled with embarrassing memories and all the people who would remember them. Most everyone around here (WPB,) that I have told about my reunion has frankly stated that they didn't/wouldn't go to theirs, which surprises me. They share how there is no one that they would want to see or catch up with, or how they were so traumatized by the whole high school experience they couldn't be paid to go back. Don't get me wrong there is plenty from my high school experience that I wish wasn't a part of my life, but I have totally bought into this reunion. Maybe its because I grew up in a small town, so even the people that I didn't hang out with I knew for the first 18 years of my life. Kindergarten through 12th grade, 5 days a week I saw the same faces and took classes with the same people. Not to mention that to this day my closest friendships are the ones that I made in high school which is rare, and we don't even live in the same state, not even the same time zone.
Though there are many many reasons to not be looking forward to this "milestone" I am embracing it. How about you? Did you go to your reunion or regret not going? Or do you think that when the time comes you will pass on the "experience" to go back? If so, why?
2 comments:
I am glad you are going to your reunion. I'm surprised in WPB more people don't go (I feel like those high school bonds have some meaning - especially all those high school sweethearts who marry eachother in south florida).
I didn't go to my reunion, even though it was close - I haven't kept up with HS relationships at all - in fact by the end of college I didn't really keep up w/ anyone from HS at all. Although my college friends were close & we've stayed in touch. No sure what that says/means.
I think a small highschool means something when it comes to those type of HS reunions.
So excited to see you this weekend and I'm glad it worked out for you to come home!!! Wouldn't miss it :-)
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