School Reunion

[EcclesCake]

I'm meeting up with an old school friend next week.

The last time I went to a school reunion I was stunned at how the classroom cliques still existed. I'm confident that next weeks meeting will be a more positive experience though!

Would you want to meet up with complete strangers that you have nothing in common with apart from a few years of sharing a class room? Or do you think it is an opportunity to grow a friendship?

[EcclesCake]

Fortunately the person in question was a 'neutral' classmate; we were never best buddies but neither did we pull each others plaits.

I'm quite looking forward to seeing her, it could be the start of a new friendship after a 20 odd year hiatus!

I am sooo intrigued by Crafts experience though....

[pdust]

*like my own episode of Jeremy Kyle. *

the ones on mine arent classmates but they sure are entertaining lol

[LoftyLottie]

Never set foot in school again after I left it and had no wish to go to any reunions. I didn't like school - certainly didn't consider it the happiest time of my life. However, kept in touch with a couple of friends for some years, but had moved right away from the area and we never saw each other, so friendship has dwindled. I did leave school nearly 50 years ago!!!!

[Postdog]

One of my classmates turned out to be a murderer. I wouldn't do reunions

[LoftyLottie]

I did meet someone I apparently knew in school about 15 years ago. She remembered me but I couldn't remember her. She started to tell me about all the people in our year and what they had been up to in school. Some of the names were familiar, but I didn't really remember any of them. She had been going to reunions every year.

[tamborine]

none have come up in FriendsReunited - methinks I'm the last :(

[LoftyLottie]

My best friend at school died when she was in her 20's.

[Baldric]

I'm in regular contact with a couple of my old schoolmates, we bump into each other every 20yrs or so!!

[horseshoes]

We were 4 friend at school; one moved away, but we 3 see each ther once a week for a game of cards, which we have done every week for the last 40 years. We only accept being out of the country or being in hospital as an excuse not to. Reunion - wouldn't mind one out of curiosity.

[paddywak]

School days weren't the happiest time for me, I see couple of guys every now and then but I wouldn't make an effort for most of them. Trish doesn't do reunions either but she still sees two of her old school friends and they're more like sisters then friends so perhaps it's a girly thing

[quinie]

My class never had a reunion.Sadly most of the classmates I kept in touch with have died. Still in touch with a close friend for 69 years -we met in first year Secondary.She's in a care home now but I try to visit once a month. We love reminiscing about old classmates and teachers.Isn't it funny how you thought your teachers were "old" and really some were just in their twenties and thirties.