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Did you attend your 10 year High School Reunion?

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MagsyMay

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Or any other HS Reunion for that matter? My 10 year is in a month or so and I''m torn. With Facebook, networking sites, blogs, etc., I feel like I know pretty much what everyone is up to. I don''t want to not go and then hear it was a great time and regret my decision.

What were your experiences at reunions if you attended?
 
I''d rather have my skin peeled off.

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nahh...didn''t have anything to brag about.
 
Date: 10/24/2009 1:44:57 PM
Author: kenny
I'd rather have my skin peeled off.


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Mine isn't until 2012.... but this is how I feel.

I disliked so many people I went to school with and just the thought of having to CARE what they do now...
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The people I care about I stayed in touch with. The rest... well... no thanks!
 
I just had my ten year reunion this summer. My little guy was sick so we couldn''t stay very long though. I found myself laughing a lot. Not WITH the people, but AT the people. The "hot" guy in high school is now a bald exterminator, the slut is still a slut and really looks bad. I went to a very small school (only 30 some kids in my class) so I knew what most of them had been up to. I had some fun but most of it was with my DH. There are some friends that I could easily reconnect with and others that I wondered what we ever had in common. It''s definitely an interesting experience, especially if you feel you have any unresolved feelings, disputes, etc.

I''d go if I were you. It might be fun, and if not, it''ll definitely be funny.
 
Date: 10/24/2009 1:57:56 PM
Author: somethingshiny
I just had my ten year reunion this summer. My little guy was sick so we couldn''t stay very long though. I found myself laughing a lot. Not WITH the people, but AT the people. The ''hot'' guy in high school is now a bald exterminator, the slut is still a slut and really looks bad. I went to a very small school (only 30 some kids in my class) so I knew what most of them had been up to. I had some fun but most of it was with my DH. There are some friends that I could easily reconnect with and others that I wondered what we ever had in common. It''s definitely an interesting experience, especially if you feel you have any unresolved feelings, disputes, etc.


I''d go if I were you. It might be fun, and if not, it''ll definitely be funny.
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That''s what I''m thinking. If it''s awful, I''ll leave (although it is $65 so I would want to get my money''s worth on drinks, ha!). I think it will be funny and think my FI will get a kick out of it. I don''t really have any horrific memories from high school that I''m trying to forget and my class was over 700 people, so surely I can avoid any people I''d rather not talk to!
 
No way am I going! Mine will be in the spring/summer, and really I want nothing more than to never see those people again. If I really want to catch up with them I''ll find them on myspace/FB. Having said that, when I have stumbled across someone, it''s been interesting. Quite a few people have come out of the closet, including one that was married, had a child, divorced and then came out as a lesbian all before 23. But I really don''t want to hang out with any of these people ever again...
 
I passed on mine. I''m no longer friends with anyone from HS anyway.
 
I went to mine..it was 5 years ago (we didn''t do a 10 yr, it was 11 yr b/c nobody bothered the year before). I didn''t want to b/c I was.."different" in school and didn''t really start getting along w/the popular people until I was a Junior. But, JD pointed out that I didn''t go to school w/anyone who turned out to be the next Bill Gates or Steven Spielberg. I also went to a small school-I think our class graduated w/28 kids. I had a lot of hard feelings when I was in school, but I figured, I''m an adult and so are they. I have a great family of my own and I am proud of what I have in my life. Anyway, we went and had a nice time. If they wanted to still act like we were in High School, that''s their problem, not mine.

However, the popular people were just as happy to see me as my "group". Nobody looked drastically different, tho I''d deep down hoped that the most popular boy and girl would''ve gotten fat and bald and wrinkly in that short period of time haha. You know how after not seeing someone for years and years, when you see them you think "hmm is that so and so, he looks familiar"-it was nothing like that. Everyone looked exactly the same, just a little older.

We talked about our differences in high school and how childish it was and how perspectives change when you get out into the "real world". Most of us are on Facebook and are friends on there, but I don''t really communicate with them.

I had a fun time, and JD actually did too.
 
As far as I know, there was no 10 year reunion, and if there was I wasn''t invited lol
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I did attend my 25 year reunion, but didn''t see many people that I wanted to ''catch up'' with. I saw one faculty member who looked the same as he had 25 years ago. There was a dinner scheduled for later in that day, but hubby didn''t want to attend and I was too chicken to go alone. I heard that there was a lot of fun as well as some notable incidents.
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I tried to encourage both of our kids to go to theirs, but in spite of many ''urgings'' from me as well as from other students, our daughter who really had so much to brag about didn''t go. Our son and his wife went to one informal event held at Kelsey''s and both reported having a great time.

I viewed the whole ''reunion'' thing as - if you aren''t having a good time, you can always leave
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It's not quite time for the 10 year, but I did attend the 5 year reunion. My class only had 60 people, so it was easy for someone to just organize a night at a local piano bar via Facebook. So it's not your typical reunion, but I still had to see people I hadn't seen in years.

Honestly, I really didn't want to go ... I've kept in touch with a few girls, but I had no desire to see anyone else. My girlfriends made me go and I ended up having a fun time! It was interesting to see what everyone was up to (especially since we all knew each other; it's not like a huge school where you don't know half of the people anyway).

I wasn't too excited about going, but I am extremely excited for my 5 year college reunion! I'm still very close with college friends and I can't wait to see them all again.

ETA: I have to say that everyone acted very nice and there was no more of that HS crap. Everyone seemed very genuinely interested in what I was doing, where I lived, etc. No cliques at all. Though after a few hours, my girlfriends and I left and went to Dave and Buster's next door to the piano bar. The pianos got loud and we couldn't talk to anyone and I think we had enough socializing with everyone for one night.
 
The ten year for me was all about bragging. Look how good I am doing kind of thing. Most everyone was in show off mode. We never had another one. I figure, the people I wanted to keep in touch with
I did and for the rest I dont care. Although with facebook, I see more people than I ever wanted to. I didn''t really want to do that. A old friend talked me into it and I have regretted it ever since.
 
I attended the 5 year reunion last year. It was ok. A little weird maybe, but generally ok.
 
I went to mine because a friend of mine organized it and I promised her that I'd go to support her efforts. I'm still really close with my best friend from high school, and I see a few other girls from high school, including the one who organized the reunion, every few months so I figured at the very least I could hang out with them.

And it was only 20 minutes from my house, so I figured why not?

I didn't really like it. It felt very contrived talking to people I didn't care to keep in touch with for the last decade. The thing that was most awkward was that I had joined Facebook a few months prior to the reunion and had accepted those friend requests from people I knew back then just to be nice. Well, it was obvious that more than a few people had spent some real time looking through my photos and that just weirded me out. It was strange that people I no longer "know" were making comments like "Your wedding looked beautiful" and "So I see you're a teacher, do you like it?" I was relatively new to Facebook and it never occurred to me that people would actually take the time to go through my information once I befriended them.

SO, I came home from the reunion and deleted all of the people from my friends list that I no longer talk to, and vowed not to attend the next reunion regardless of who plans it.

My husband attended his 10 year and skipped his 20 year. He didn't regret skipping the last one.

ETA: There were over 800 people in my graduating class. I'd say around 200 attended the reunion.
 
no desire to go.
 
I didn''t b/c I was due to give birth around the reunion date, so I wouldn''t be allowed on a plane and the dr said no traveling after 5 months.
 
Yes, but only because I was one of the people obligated to help plan it. It was a little weird especially since I have a hard time with names, and there was no way I could remember all 200+ people that showed up! It was good to catch up with a few people, but I keep up with almost everyone I want to keep up with!
 
Yes, and helped plan it. I have my 25th coming up. I know I am old!!! But am skipping it because we have other plans that weekend. At this point I am over reunions. The people I am friends with, we keep in touch and have mini reuinions when they are home.
 
Nope. If I wanted to see all of those people I would have kept their phone numbers.
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No, because mine was $125 PER PERSON..Hubby and I went out to a nice dinner instead. I believe I got the better deal. I can keep tabs on all the people I care to from High School with Facebook.
 
Date: 10/24/2009 6:27:35 PM
Author: fsu1227
No, because mine was $125 PER PERSON..Hubby and I went out to a nice dinner instead. I believe I got the better deal. I can keep tabs on all the people I care to from High School with Facebook.
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Wow that''s a lot! Everyone is complaining about our price ($65) which only includes open bar and hors d''ouerves. I guess it''s pricey considering there is no meal, but I guess I can rationalize that if I went out for an evening in Chicago, I would easily spend that on cabs, drinks, appetizers, etc.

I stay in contact with my core group of girlfriends from high school still, but there are still a handful of other friends I have from growing up, sports, etc. that I wouldn''t mind seeing. Sighhh, what to do...
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Wow, we just met in the park here in town and grilled and hung out for lunch and then some went golfing. We met up later for supper and then went to a street dance. Maybe Iowans are cheapies. Or it''s our age. My mom''s class rents a big hall and has a meal catered and a band and you have to buy tickets.
 
I attended my 10 year HS reunion in 2005, before FB really hit. I was living on the west coast at the time and was going to be back home when it was held and went out of curiosity more than anything else. The people I really, really liked I''d remained in contact with, so it was more to see what happened to everyone else.

In all honesty, the reunion itself was pretty bad from an event planning perspective. It was held at the local community center in "town". I grew up in a mid-sized rural town and this is what you get. I joked that for $40/head I''d better not walk into styrofoam plates and BBQ from Whitts (well known in TN). Yeah. So I walked into styrofoam plates, Whitt''s bbq (which is really good) and chocolate pie. That was it. It was BYOB when it came to liquor and did I mention that the main area of the community center is actually a basketball court? With horrible acoustics? Yep, it was a steller of a night.

All that being said, I did actually enjoy going. Those that were jerky in HS were still kind of jerky for the most part. Several crazy partiers had really, really mellowed out, which was surprising. The biggest shocker for me was how many times I asked "Who the heck is THAT?". I haven''t lived in that town for a LONG time, but I thought that surely 10 years couldn''t have made that much of a difference in how people looked and I will tell you that I was wrong about that!!!!

I''ve heard that when 20 rolls around, people are much more mellowed out. I''m not that far from my 20th (now, how did THAT happen????) and I''d go again. Even with FB and so many of us being "connected" now. It was kind of fun seeing everyone and I''m still 5 hours away, so I don''t run into people like those that still live there do. I see people on occassion if they''re where I live or vice versa, but there''s a few people I''d love to see again.

If you think you''ll regret not going, I''d go. I will tell you, you will probably not have a fantastic time. I don''t know that those exist unless you go to one after skipping several! My dad went to his 30th after skipping the 10, 20, and 25. He was one of those people that everyone was always looking for, but never showed up. People were thrilled to see him, mainly because he''d always skipped and they wondered what happened to him. My step-mom said they left at 2am and even then, people were still talking to them. She said she didn''t think they were ever going to let them leave. Apparently, my dad is a party animal.
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My 10-year reunion is coming up in the summer, and I'm kind of looking forward to it. We had about 90 people in our graduating class, although I think some people who moved away before graduation are also planning to come. I still keep in touch with my close friends from high school, but there were definitely other people who I liked back then but just wasn't close enough to keep in touch with once grown-up life hit, and I'd love to see them. Also, since it's a small town, I've seen a few people occasionally throughout college and since -- at the obligatory night-after-Thanksgiving bar hop, mainly. I'm sure there will be a few snarky and annoying people there, but I think that on the balance it's going to be a lot of fun.
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I had my college 5-year reunion in May and it was fun, but also a little bittersweet because a few of my best friends weren't able to come due to work obligations, the economy, etc. Fortunately, my nemesis didn't show up either, so I was still a pretty happy girl.
 
lol. I see all these extravagant ticket costs and just think "wow". Our 5 yr reunion was in a classmates backyard with a bbq and a couple kegs. Our ten year was at the beer tent during our town''s festival (which means every other class was also in attendance). no tickets, rsvps, etc. Just pitch in money for drinks.

On a side note- My grandpa just asked me if he should attend his 60th class reunion (which is actually the 62nd because they all "forgot" when it was supposed to be!).
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Mine hasn''t come up yet, but I probably won''t go. Mostly because I doubt my closest friends will (and why go see people you aren''t that close with?), and it''s SO far and expensive to get back home, and because thanks to social networking sites (pretty much all my high school class is one one networking site or another) there''s really no "mystery" anymore (like, no wondering what X is doing with his life, or how Y looks after 10 years).
 
Mine is coming up next year and some of my former classmates are already starting to plan it on FB. I friended a few people that I went to hs with to be courteous, and I''m pretty sure I''ll attend the reunion. I wasn''t popular at all in hs and there are some unresolved things, but honestly I don''t care. I don''t hold grudges and I don''t dwell on things that happened 10+ years ago. The teen years are hard for everyone although I acknowlege some have it rougher than others. It will be interesting to see what some people are up to these days. I know from fb that quite a few are married with children (as am I) and some are surprisingly quite the same as they were 10 years ago.
 
nope I moved a state away and plus it was always so clicky
 
No, I haven''t been to any of them so far. I''m 17 years out from graduating HS, and I doubt I''ll attend my 20th when it rolls around. My HS was pretty cliquey, and I keep in touch with just a few friends from back then. I catch up with others on FB occasionally, so I know what they''re up to even if we don''t really keep in touch.
 
Date: 10/24/2009 9:34:31 PM
Author: somethingshiny
lol. I see all these extravagant ticket costs and just think ''wow''. Our 5 yr reunion was in a classmates backyard with a bbq and a couple kegs. Our ten year was at the beer tent during our town''s festival (which means every other class was also in attendance). no tickets, rsvps, etc. Just pitch in money for drinks.


On a side note- My grandpa just asked me if he should attend his 60th class reunion (which is actually the 62nd because they all ''forgot'' when it was supposed to be!).
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I would rather that type of party, honestly! My grandpa went to his 65th HS reunion (he just turned 90 last weekend), which I thought was so cool! Although there weren''t many left between WWII and health, but incredible for those who could attend I''m sure! I can''t imagine!
 
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