Old Highschool Reunions

Have you flown back/gone to them? Which one 10 year, 20 year..... Do most UK Yankees just give them a miss because they are in the UK now or have you/or plan to go and even take your British counterpart and see your old high school classmates? Any stories to share?

My 10-year reunion was this past weekend, and I skipped it for various reasons...
- Flying back from the UK was the same day
- Going to the UK in the first place was far more attractive than driving several hours to see people
- Most of the people I care about I'm in touch with via other means anyway (Facebook, e-mail, etc)

I may go to my 20-year reunion, we'll see. I wasn't that crazy about high school, so there wasn't much incentive for me to go to this reunion.

High school sucked.
I would never dream of going to a reunion!

I went to both my 10th and 20th (Only two I've had so far)  Both times I had an amazing time  

10th was 10 years ago   So I was not living here nor did I even know my husband.  But I did take my ex. I wish I hadn't!!!

This time most of us had reconnected on FB and decided not to bring partners (Some did)  It was this summer and I had partially planned it so I'd be there.  Husband didn't come till the following week anyway, so it didn't matter if I had wanted him to come or not.

I didn't love HS tbh, but reconnecting with my friends has been fantastic!  I'm good friends now with some of the people I didn't even really know well back then. 

I want another reunion next year now

ha ha the first 2 responses are after my own heart, I didn't go to the best high school, and facebook has been interesting, firstly for seeing what old friends are up to and second.. for peeking in on people that were not so friendly.


All and all I like to go, although not sure about taking my hubby seeing that I went to a school full of people with gold teeth and doing the west side hand thingie. Nothing says memories like that.

and I hear you Stacey, I talk to some people on facebook from my highschool that I barely spoke to when I was there.. we have so much in common now.

I wouldn't go home for one specifically like I would for weddings Bar/Bat Mitzvahs etc, but if I happened to be home while one was taking place, I would go.  I am planning on going to a summer camp reunion this September in Vermont, those were really happy amazing days.

High school sucked.
I would never dream of going to a reunion!

Ditto. Big Time!

Ditto on the facebook thing! It's amazing how girls I thought didn't like me in HS are very close to me now.

My class skipped out on a 10 year, so we're trying to organize a 15.  I think I'd try to arrange to be back in the US so I could attend, but I wouldn't be upset if I missed it and Tim attending would be optional and completely up to him.

My 30th High School reunion was this last summer.  I did not go for several reasons.    For starters, though my high school days were not awful...in fact, I have many fond memories of the time, I have stayed in continuous contact with just one classmate since then.  I don't need a reunion to maintain that friendship.  From a viewpoint of prioritising time and money, I would much rather explore Italy than reliving "Glory Days" with people I haven't talked to since I was a teenager!  :-)

I just didn't have the long-lived connections that they had with each other.  I went to high school in a small town in Montana and most of my classmates were born and raised in the area and still live there.  They all started school together when they were 5 years old.  I moved there when I was a freshman, and left 4 years later to go to university and never returned.  My family no longer lives anywhere near the area, so a visit to the reunion would be vacation/holiday time and money that would be better used visiting my family or friends who are an important part of my life now.  

I got some emails from the reunion organiser and some links to some YouTube videos.  It was kind of strange because I really didn't recognise a lot of them.  And I was in a small graduating class of 30 people, so I knew them all.  But it reinforced that I made the right decision not go and spend the weekend small talking with a bunch of strangers and instead spent the money on spending Christmas with my family.

I helped plan my 10 year reunion. I really enjoyed seeing my friends again and everyone had a really nice time. I hope someone who still lives there takes the initiative to plan the 20th, which would be in 3 short years...yikes! I would plan a trip home around a reunion and hope my husband could make it, but I had fun in high school! 

I loved High School.  I had a great time.  But I've never been to a reunion.  I'm too much of a wanderer and have just never been home at the right time to go.  I would though if I were around.  I guess our 25th was lots of fun.  I saw some old high school friends this summer and it was really nice catching up with them.  I also felt really at ease and natural around them.

I will go methinks, and just arrange to stay for a week or so and visit everyone, two birds with one stone!  I personally loved high school.  I was by no means one of the popular kids, but I had my own role to play and enjoyed my time spent there (the chick who hangs out with dudes because other chicks did not play video games / love Star Wars) .

I've got another 4 years until the 10 year reunion comes around, and I thoroughly hope to be there.

I agree on the facebook front. Once I found out how to search by school plus graduating year I wasted hours being nosey 

I would love to go to my 10 year reunion! I'm definitely going to try and make a trip out of it and stay for a couple weeks (if I have the funds at the time). I'm pretty close with my high school friends. A lot of them I've know since I was 9 years old. Most of them I see once a year and others I have on FB. There are only about a handful of people I haven't seen or heard from since graduations that I wonder about every once in a while. I am excited to learn about what happend to them and where they all ended up. Just 1 more year to go now! I hope the rest of my class are thinking like me and turn up for the thing!    

I just realized my ten year reunion is in only two years!!! I plan on living in the UK by then, and I probably wouldn't go unless I was in Miami visiting family at the same time.

Everyone that I am interested in finding out what they're up to I am already facebook-stalking online :-D

My 10th is next year, and I don't plan on going. I didn't like who I was in high school, and most of the people I was friends with were a grade or two below me. I could never imagine flying home from another country specifically to attend my reunion.