Do you keep in touch with friends from high school... - Page 3

Lilysmom · ‎03-09-2010

Interesting and timely topic for me. Last year I went to my niece's law school graduation and connected with a very old childhood friend and neighbor. I also met another old friend from my neighborhood at a visitation for a deceased relative.

This year is the 200th anniversary of my high school. It is scheduled around a local annual festival. We three decided to meet and stay at a local B&B for one night, have dinner and hit the festival and renew some old friendships. I don't really care about the high school reunion but these two girls were my very best friends.

The next day, we visit the local girlfriend's garden and travel to my home where I will host one girl overnight. Can't wait.

It has been more than 40 years since I left my hometown, returning only for family visits or funerals. LM

PS, can't believe the huge size of some of your classes. The total student population of my HS was 200.

Ptaz · ‎05-05-2010

I was one of those invisible kids in high school that most people didn't know was there. So No, I don't care if I ever see any of those people again.

GCR18 · ‎07-03-2013

I am still friends with one high school friend. She dragged me to the ten year reunion and I said never again. She still goes and has a great time.

lulu2 · ‎03-09-2010

I do. Then again I enjoyed high school.

LyndaGee · ‎03-11-2010

A couple, thanks to Facebook.

Irshgrl31201 · ‎03-18-2010

Yes. One is my best friend. She is the first person I met at my new middle school in 7th grade and she is still one of my best friends all these years later. We live in different states but we visit about 4-6 times a yr. She comes down twice in the summer and we go down to my beach house. She is coming in just a few weeks and will be spending 2 weeks with me. I can't wait. I always have such a good time with her. No matter how long it has been between our visits, it is like no time has passed at all. I don't have a whole lot of friends that I feel that way about.

There are a few others I still see and a few I still talk to. Not a whole lot, maybe 6 or 8 altogether.

I hadn't gone to any high school reunions until the last one. I happened to be in town visiting relatives when I found out about it. I was glad I went. I got a see a girl I was pretty good friends with all through high school but we had just lost touch after graduation. She had found me again on FB a little before the reunion and I was really glad to see her. She was fighting stage 4 breast cancer and she died not long after the reunion.

That is one thing FB is good for. A couple of her close friends had a fund raising party for her and a ton of people showed up and it was quite successful. Prior to FB, I doubt even a 1/4 of people would have shown up because they would have never known about it.

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freakygirl · ‎07-03-2014

once in a while, we do get together and it's fun, but I've never been interested in attending any of the reunions. if I get to see the ones I was close to during the year anyway, then that's good enough for me. funny thing is, when I was in hs and college, I was such an extrovert. as I got older, I started to become really shy. very weird. that's also one reason I stay away from reunions.

Catty2 · ‎09-06-2014

This year is my 50th HS reunion but I'm not going. It's in another state and I went to 3 different high schools due to moving. But, I did go to a 40th grade school reunion some years ago. It was great because most of us went to that school K through 8th grade. I am FB friends with a few of those classmates and also a HS friend.

ChynnaBlue · ‎05-22-2012

Yes, and some of my old friends from summer camp, too. We're Facebook friends and when I visit my parents, I sometimes visit my old school friends who still live in the area. My summer camp friends sometimes come to Austin for business or for the many festivals and I've had lunch or dinner with some of them. My camp friends also have an annual reunion at the camp right after the new campers go home, but I haven't made it out to that yet.

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hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

Not really. I quit high school and a year later joined the US Army, with 2 of my high school friends. After basic training they went together to another Army Post, and we never really connected again after our tours in the Army.

I do however still stay in e-mail contact with one of the girls I dated back in high school before I quit. I really didn't have time to make too many friends in high school. I worked 4 nights a week until. 1am, and headed right to work, on the bus, when I got out of school.

Most of my friends I made were through many years of Auto Racing and through the Adult Hockey League I started and ran in 1963, for 52 years.

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