Do you ever join class reunions?

@sol_cee (38219)
Philippines
November 21, 2017 9:07pm CST
For some reasons, I haven't joined one. I'd love to meet my old classmates and laugh at how 'big' we've become over the years. There's this bully boy who made my elementary school days miserable whom I want to kick now but he's already a priest. I'd go straight to hell if I ever touch his priestly bully face. Anyhow, my batchmates from my elementary school held a class reunion a few weeks ago. Facebook updated me with the photos they uploaded and yeah, they aren't cute anymore. I couldn't even recognize a few. Where have all the years gone by? Then yesterday, one of my friends from the same elementary school announced that she's getting married. I asked who the lucky groom is and she said, "Your seatmate in fifth grade." And I was like, "Really?", thinking long and hard who my 5th grade seatmate was. Then my brain started to register a familiar face of a young, thin boy along with memories of him copying my homework. But of course I didn't say that. Instead I asked, too eagerly and intrudingly, I'm afraid, "When did you become a couple?" She's cool enough to say, "After the class reunion." There you have it. A grand finale. Whoever said class reunions are terrible? Lol
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
23 Nov 17
We have never had one as far as I know. I tried to organize one but could locate only a few classmates and they were far away and so met up for coffee with only one.
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@1hopefulman (45120)
• Canada
28 Nov 17
@sol_cee I did most of my schooling in Canada but Canada is a big country.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
28 Nov 17
@1hopefulman oh I thought...
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
28 Nov 17
Maybe because your classmates can't go to Canada?
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@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
23 Nov 17
Oh wow, their love story started after the class reunion. How old were they then?
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@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
3 Dec 17
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
28 Nov 17
Old enough to tie the knot. haha
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
23 Nov 17
I wouldn't know. my mom moved me around so much that I had different schools most all the time.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
29 Nov 17
@sol_cee oh a few times but was always sad when we moved again and we would write sometimes but even that would fall away after a few months etc.
@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
28 Nov 17
I always wonder how it feels to be the new guy in class. Did you have BFFs?
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@toniganzon (72532)
• Philippines
22 Nov 17
Never been to one though I've been invited several times. The schedule just don't match with mine. I can't imagine you being bullied. I was never bullied back in the school days and I've never bullied anybody.
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@toniganzon (72532)
• Philippines
23 Nov 17
@sol_cee I think they were threatened by you, that's why they did that. You're no meek.
@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
23 Nov 17
Oh you know bullies. They prey on the meek. Lol
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@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
22 Nov 17
I have attended batch reunions from elementary and high school. All are very happy togetherness of my former classmates.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
22 Nov 17
Maybe you should get the Perfect Attendance Award. ;)
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
23 Nov 17
@ilocosboy I imagine you like being there all the time. Lol
@ilocosboy (45156)
• Philippines
22 Nov 17
Oh I'm not always present
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22 Nov 17
It depends on who will participate.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
22 Nov 17
What do you mean? Should there be a specific list?
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22 Nov 17
@sol_cee People at the reunions.
@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
22 Nov 17
@TheInvisibleMan you mean your friends?
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@Bluedoll (16773)
• Canada
25 Nov 17
That's a really nice story! It is fun to see where people end up. If you had not gone you would never have known.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
28 Nov 17
I didn't go but I knew about it because I'm nosy. lol
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
23 Nov 17
by brother had class reunion for his elementary class early November. it was the ruby anniversary. i attended the elementary reunion last 2012. then another high-school reunion in 2014. no college reunion yet.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
23 Nov 17
How was it?
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@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
23 Nov 17
@sol_cee it was nice. the college reunion was last year. i did not attend that one. i even made a discussion about this:
This Saturday is the date of the grand reunion of the graduates of Nursing from 1978 to 1983. It is in line with our foundation day (St. Paul’s day) on January...
@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
25 Nov 17
Well, that's a productive one for the new couple!
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
28 Nov 17
Which one?
@AliCanary (3247)
26 Nov 17
I hardly ever go, but the one time that I went, I had a very good time, and I enjoyed reconnecting with old friends.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
28 Nov 17
I'm always tempted to go but something always happens. lol
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@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
23 Nov 17
No, I have never attended my class reunions. I am not really interested in seeing the people I went to school with.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
28 Nov 17
Why?
@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
28 Nov 17
@sol_cee Because Sherlocked I live far away and do not travel back to the United States. I do not miss it and do not miss the people I went to school with.
@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
22 Nov 17
We are going to have our class reunion this coming November, and I think I posted something like this last week. About meeting the past in the future.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
22 Nov 17
@JustBhem Really?
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
22 Nov 17
I haven’t read that one yet. Checking...
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
22 Nov 17
@sol_cee Okay. I think you should at least attend one of your class reunions.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
17 Dec 17
That was indeed a grand finale We had a wonderful reunion last June, and the years just fell.off.It was an all girls! one though because the boys left to go to another school after class 5. Then there are other college reunions where it is a mixed crowd
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
11 Jul 18
And they are expecting a child. That was fast, yeah?
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• India
11 Jul 18
@sol_cee you are really digging deep. Am glad for them
@nangayo (2290)
• Nairobi, Kenya
22 Nov 17
I would love to meet my former class mates and just know how their fairing on. Sometime it is a challenge meeting a former classmate who has made it in life while we are struggling to make it.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
22 Nov 17
That too. And the never ending gossip. ;)
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
23 Nov 17
@nangayo scarecrow. Lol
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@nangayo (2290)
• Nairobi, Kenya
22 Nov 17
@sol_cee The best is sharing those photos where you once looked like a scarecrow and enjoy each other the dressing code those old times were another scene.
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
22 Nov 17
I've never been to one either, the thought of it never appealed to me.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
23 Nov 17
My mom has attended so many kinds of reunion this year. I don’t know why it appealed to her.
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@bluesa (15022)
• Johannesburg, South Africa
22 Nov 17
I don't go to reunions either. A pity you can't take on your ex bully! Aw, happy it worked out for your friend!
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
23 Nov 17
Ex bully classmate, yeah. ;)
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@JudyEv (342179)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Nov 17
Our school year gets together every year or so. Some of the people I don't recognise at all. It's a bit eerie when they look totally different.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
22 Nov 17
Eerie, yeah.Like asking yourself, "Am I that old?" lol
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@andriaperry (117146)
• Anniston, Alabama
22 Nov 17
No, I never cared to go back, I most certainly would not marry a one of those people. Seriously I did not date from my own school.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
22 Nov 17
Why not?
@YrNemo (20255)
22 Nov 17
I haven't attended any class reunion yet. Too busy or too something always... Like you, I don't often recognize faces from photos. But if those strangers said they knew me, then I must have known them too once upon a time.
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@sol_cee (38219)
• Philippines
23 Nov 17
Once upon a time. Lol
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