10 Year Reunion (now with a small poll!)

[amellis2]

I was added to a group about getting the word out about my 10 year reunion. 

1) Did you go to yours (if you've had it?)
2) What did/do you do at these things?
3) Did you have fun/Do you think you would have fun?

I am glad I started going to the gym now!  Also, I guess I should look into funding for grad school!

[sara76]

I think it would have been fun because since high school all the different cliques in my class have befriended each other. Facebook can actually be a good thing like that sometimes. It's nice to know that most of the girls that I didn't necessarily hang with but still grew up along with are doing well. We didn't have one though because we were still bitchy in 2004. If we have a 20 I'd like to check it out. Woah wait, that's in just 2 years? How in the world did that happen? Anyway, I assume a lot of drinking goes along with them. That's all I can guess.

[mrsmew]

1) Yes, I went. Word was primarily spread through FB, but if you weren't a member of the class-specific group, you didn't really hear anything. They did a pretty bad job about spreading the word.

2) Ours was super casual. They got a block of tickets for a Rays game and then we all went to Ferg's afterwards - cash bar, no food included.

3) I did not really have fun. If I hadn't forced some of my old friends to go it would have been super lame. They had talked a big game prior to the actual reunion about doing a weekend-long thing: Rays game Friday night, formal shindig Saturday night, family beach day on Sunday. That sounded like a lot of fun, so I don't know how they ended up with a drastically scaled down version. It still cost us $50/pp for just the game, basically, since nothing was included at the after-party.

Also at the after-party they did some things like showing Senior videos and "superlatives" that people could vote on but everything was geared towards the clique the organizers belonged to, and there was really almost no reminiscing that applied to the rest of the class.

Yeah, so not much fun. I'm glad I went, I suppose, because I would have wondered about it if I hadn't. But I'm not sure if I'll go to my 20-year. I figure now I'm keeping up with anyone I care about on FB and if they do as poor of a job with the next reunion, I'd rather save the time and money and just send my friends a FB message.

[lauren9317]

I didn't go to mine because it didnt seem worth driving to jacksonville for and it was pretty expensive-- it was a weekend in a downtown hotel with a dinner and then I think they all went on a tour of the school the next day. I saw a lot of pics of FB of them posing in classrooms. My graduating class only had maybe 200 kids to begin with and maybe 30 ish went to the reunion, although I think they anticipated a small tight knit group so it was ok. I dont regret not going but if it had been more convenient and less $$ I might have checked it out. Plus, if all my friends had gone too, but none of them did. It was really just a certain group who attended but they seemed to have fun so I was glad for them. This one guy organized the whole thing and I was happy for him that it turned out successful, even though it wasn't some huge party like you see in movies. I think HS reunions are more low key nowadays bc FB takes away a lot of the novelty of a reunion.

[amellis2]

I think I might go. One of my friends who lives in Texas wants to go (her DH went to our school but dropped out, GED, and then went into the Army.) My other two friends don't want to go. I suppose it depends on what they are doing for it. I don;t feel that accomplished, at actually, not working outside of the home is kind of making me feel worthless. I know that I shouldn't, but I do.

[aegis2005]

Didn't go to mine.

Speaking of high school, I bought spray paint this morning and the "is this person over 18 (i.e. were they born after 7/15/1995) came up". Damn, I graduated before kids who can now buy lottery tickets, cigarettes and spray paint. That made me feel old.

[cop]

I didn't go to mine because I was 8 months pregnant and living out of state.  If I hadn't been, I would have gone.  It seemed like they had a decent turnout.  It was a weekend long thing- a happy hour on Friday at a shop owned by a classmate, a dinner on Saturday night, and then a family day at the beach on Sunday.  Since I've been living outside Florida for eight years now, there are only a few people I knew in high school that I have actually hung out with in the last few years.  It would have been good to catch-up with more people.  That being said, it seemed like the majority of people who went live closer to our hometown and probably already see each other often enough.  I may go if the organize a 20 year and I'm able to, but it depends on whether we're overseas at the time.

[tashaandsage]

I did not go to mine. At the time I didn't feel the need or desire to. I felt like I'd kept in touch with everyone I cared to, and since I was still going out to bars and clubs all the time back then, I was constantly running into classmates. My 20 year is next year and I assume I'll go to this one.