SO TELL US, WERE YOU A HOMECOMING QUEEN, CHEERLEAD... - Page 11

Lapdog · ‎12-18-2012

Such rules we had! I was called to the counselors office one day for wearing my shirt tail out! The horror!!!

Sadiesadie · ‎08-05-2011

Boy, none of that here. I was such a wallflower and insecure. Painfully shy. Had a very small group of girlfriends who were all pretty much the same. None of us dated...no one asked...but we had fun and really didn't mind. What's funny is a comment made about me years later when my eldest was in 5th grade.

I was one of the parent chaperones for an out of state

field trip.

I was more comfortable with myself by then and not so shy. Really liked the teacher and the other mothers on the trip. I heard someone make some kind of comment about me and asked what it was. It cracked me up when they apparently all decided I had been a cheerleader in high school. They didn't believe me when I told them I had been such a wildflower. It was nice to realize I had outgrown all that and interesting to see how people saw me.

As far as clicks we had them. A girlfriend and her husband had moved back into town and she got an invite to our 20th reunion. No way was I interested but she really didn't want to go without knowing at least one person.

You know how they give out those awards to the one who traveled the farthest, most kids, etc? Well, each and every one was given to a former popular kid. Some guy even hollered out "same old click".

That was my one and only reunion. Not interested.

deepwaterdotter · ‎03-09-2010

@insomniac2 wrote:
I was a very good student and could play the piano rather well. I was friendly--to a point
--with popular girls who also played piano. But I was not a member of the "in crowd."

No wonder our trivia game scores are consistently so close, we both were good students and pianists. You and I on a trivia team together in high-school could have taken all comers!

daisyk · ‎05-20-2011

No, I wasn't any of the above- I was geeky in lower grades and in high school I was kind of rebellious. Was I the only one sneaking cigarettes between classes? Yeah, that was me. I gave up the smokes long ago though. High school was a time to endure although I had some memorable times.

HappyDaze · ‎06-13-2012

@Citrine1 wrote:
@SeaMaiden wrote:
@tends2dogs I was a closet cheerleader... practiced all the time in my room infront of the mirror..... always wanted to be one! BUT, Only the popularSUPER RICH girls were ever Cheerleaders in my schools, same for homecoming queen etc. They were always the "click" girls who never talked to anyone not in their circle..... they had the boobs, the clothes, the hair..... the boys on the football team after them.....

I grew up in a rich part of town.... Many doctors, lawyers and such( Bill Gates area) In my school there was the super popular GROUP .... then the mid crowd GROUP( me) and then the dregs of society GROUP Who no one acknowledged or spoke to. So cruel and unfair... JUST LIKE LIFE IS IN THE REAL WORLD.
I was a cheerleader, but I was nothing like @SeaMaiden described. I went to a public school in a middle class neighborhood. Nobody rich went to my school. I didn't have "the boobs", didn't date football players, and wasn't in a "clique". I had many friends from many circles, yet wasn't especially popular. I was more the "artistic" type and had some "artsy" friends who were considered a little odd, but I didn't care. I was a cheerleader because I liked it, it was fun, and I was good at it.

Ours wasn't like that either@Citrine1 even though yes, both the high schools I went to had cliques. At one, the cheerleaders definitely came from the crowd that hung out in the main quad (quaddies, they called them) but most of them were very down to earth and nice still and not stuck up (one actually went on to be in some of Janet Jackson's videos when she was more popular and had alot of hits). At the other high school wow the cheerleaders were from all sorts of groups (i.e. cliques) and even a few ones that were quite robust, which was nice to see because they were still very athletic and moved well. It was quite the ecclectic mix of people and they all got along, despite their different backgrounds and personalities.

HappyDaze · ‎06-13-2012

@beach-mom wrote:
I was pretty active in both high school and college. In high school I was a member of several academic clubs, and president of one of them. I was a swimmer, and I tried synchronized swimming.

In college I was also involved in several academic clubs, I was on the yearbook staff, I was in a sorority, and junior year I was on the homecoming court! I swam for one semester, then gave it up.

I have great memories of both. Leaving college really hit me hard, because I realized the people I'd been LIVING WITH and saw every day would be scattering all across the country. Leaving high school wasn't as bad for me -I guess because I knew I had roots there. My mom lived there, and so did theirs! Although we live states away, my high school best friend and I are still close!

@beach-mom I was the opposite- leaving high school was hard because everyone I cared about would be spread out all over the country and even in other countries. Leaving college was easiest because I didn't live with anyone but my boyfriend and although I had alot of college friends, most stayed in the area where our college was but I didn't really get as close to people in college than I did in high school.

MacDUFF · ‎05-29-2015

Book worm (still am)...a little nerdy...best friend was in the band, so I hung out with them and went to all their gigs. I had friends in all the different cliques, tho, and my first husband was a star football player (go figure). Generally speaking, I enjoyed my HS days.

~~~ I call dibs on the popcorn concession!! ~~~

Silver Lining · ‎04-16-2010

@SeaMaiden wrote:
@tends2dogs I was a closet cheerleader... practiced all the time in my room infront of the mirror..... always wanted to be one! BUT, Only the popularSUPER RICH girls were ever Cheerleaders in my schools, same for homecoming queen etc. They were always the "click" girls who never talked to anyone not in their circle..... they had the boobs, the clothes, the hair..... the boys on the football team after them.....

I grew up in a rich part of town.... Many doctors, lawyers and such( Bill Gates area) In my school there was the super popular GROUP .... then the mid crowd GROUP( me) and then the dregs of society GROUP Who no one acknowledged or spoke to. So cruel and unfair... JUST LIKE LIFE IS IN THE REAL WORLD.

Sour grapes

beach-mom · ‎03-09-2010

@HappyDaze wrote:
@beach-mom I was the opposite- leaving high school was hard because everyone I cared about would be spread out all over the country and even in other countries. Leaving college was easiest because I didn't live with anyone but my boyfriend and although I had alot of college friends, most stayed in the area where our college was but I didn't really get as close to people in college than I did in high school.

@HappyDaze - I think you are more the norm than I was. I had always heard, even from my mom, that your college friends are the ones you will be close to the rest of your life. We used to talk about that in high school. I think that's why we were extra careful to stay connected. My best friend and I even visited each other at our colleges when we could. She stayed closer to home; I went farther away. Most of my high school friends went to college in our state.

After college none of my closest friends lived around me, and then I was the one who went to another country! When we moved here, I tried to get five of us together for a weekend, but with family obligations, that didn't happen - most had children involved in something! I envy people I know who still make an effort to get together with college friends. One of my friends makes a yearly trip to do this. They have done it since college, always making it a priority even when their children were young!

libbyannE · ‎10-27-2010

I was an editor of the school paper, which, I realized later, was a power position at school. Also involved in chorus and performing in school musicals.

Most important to me were outside activities-- specifically, writing for our city's newspaper and a local magazine. It was actually a bit difficult to give up that professional writing work when I went off to college. I already had a career going!