Do you still know your childhood friends and/or schoolmates?

Elizabeth · Post by **Elizabeth** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 12:16 am

Hi girls,

Me and my son were having a conversation and I was telling him that I am not in touch with anyone that I went to school with. Either grade school, junior high or middle school or high school.

I am wondering how many of you are still in touch with friends from your school days. Please do not count college.

Thanks

Love always,
Elizabeth

Anita · Post by **Anita** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 1:03 am

Hi Elizabeth--
There are quite a few that I stay in touch with. They would not want to meet my femme self, but they're OK with pictures of her, and can joke about it.

The year I started dressing there was a dinner party set up for about 15 old friends back in Ohio, and I passed around "her" picture. I was proud of her! Not that I'm less proud now, but some of that initial need to talk about it is toned down some.

Calina_Leigh · Post by **Calina_Leigh** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 1:31 am

Up until about 99, I was in touch with 90% of my friends from school. Ok, to be honest I did not have many friends to begin with but the ones I had were good ones. Figuring we would table top role play at least once a week, we kept in touch over 6 years. I will not go into details at this time about what happened in 99, at this time. For now there is only one friend that I am in constant touch with and that was after joining a PBEM he started up and I came accross.

Mellissa · Post by **Mellissa** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 3:33 am

No i'm not in touch anymore i guess we all went our own way
Got married and stuff
But i still have contact with some guys i was in the army with

Mellissa

Eloise Goth · Post by **Eloise Goth** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 4:28 am

I'm still in touch with a mate I've known since we were 10.it's great to talk about the old days at school...the teachers,events and former schoolmates.Makes me feel kinda old though when I realise that the kids who have just left school were only 1 year old when I left.

SophieLawson · Post by **SophieLawson** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 5:27 am

Nope

Always said we would keep in contact but we never did, maybe once a year or something get an email but that's it.

I tell you something, when at College I always rememeber everyone went on about a reunion in like 20 years time and I always always alwaysssss remember thinking, imagine if I turned up to this reunion dressed up

In fact, I used to think I'd turn up as a girl cos I always thought I'd have a sex change but now I think dressed up

Sophie xx

CJ · Post by CJ » Sat Sep 25, 2004 5:57 am

Hi all,

Yup, I'm still in touch with my kindergarden mates even--those fingerpainting sessions really bond people together!

Of course, I'm just kidding.

Sadly, no, I haven't kept in touch with HS friends. I carried their addresses and phone numbers with me for a few years, but having relocated to the West Coast in my early twenties, I figured the chances of my seeing them again any time soon were pretty slim, so I got rid of all that info.

You know, I've been toying lately with the idea of tracking down and looking up some of these people. See where they're at. See where I'm at, too, I guess! Like Calina, I had few friends in High School--I was a typical loner (though I didn't go around videotaping empty plastic bags swirling in the breeze

)--but the ones I did have were rock solid.

I don't know if my experience finds an echo with anyone else's here, but those years definitely weren't the best for me (at 43, I imagine those are still to come); once free from the bondage of mandatory fact ingestion, I did all I could to put as much distance between myself and my High School years.

Now, my current need to get a better handle on my own history makes me want to revisit that period of my life and sort of has me wishing I had, indeed, kept in touch with those friends who shared my teenage years.

Love,
CJ

Post by **DonnaT** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:06 am

Went to public school in WV grades 1-9 and 12 with many of the same people and meet up with some wehn I go back to WV every so often, especially when have out high school reunions. The folks for years 10-11 in Catholic school I don't keep in touch with.

Kind of hard to keep in touch except through email when most move or you move, and everyone starts a new life after high school.

Virginia · Post by **Virginia** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:49 am

I know where a few of my friends are but we do not correspond.
Virginia

Loretta Ann · Post by **Loretta Ann** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:33 am

nooooooooooooo I dooooooooon't. I was bullied a lot, and had no reason to stay in touch.

Amelie-Laveau · Post by **Amelie-Laveau** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 1:02 pm

No, I don't. Similar To Darlene, I didn't get alone with anyone from school. I dropped out of High school, never wanting to see anyone there again.
Love Amelie

Curly(SO) · Post by **Curly(SO)** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 2:34 pm

No, I honestly never liked anyone enough to keep in contact, I didn't enjoy school and had no true friends there.

Funnily enough though, my best friend now, went to my school, we've known of each other's existence from about the age of eight, having lived in the same neighbourhood, but I don't think we ever talked at school, as she was in the year below me. (We met up again as our daughters were in the same class at infant school.)

I think her partner may be a CDer, she has said a few things that have led me to believe this, but we've not talked about it openly.

Curly(SO)

Lorna · Post by **Lorna** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 2:42 pm

I was a geek in elementary school and had few friends, but I did keep in touch with one friend although we wound up going to different high schools. It was thru him that I met a few other friends during my college years.

To this day the four of us still keep in touch. In fact, they all know about Lorna!

Carolynn · Post by **Carolynn** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 4:02 pm

Hi Elizabeth and everybody!!!

A few years ago I finally broke down and went to my (uhmmmph)th

highschool class reunion. They have been having them every 10 years or so, but I had always been able to find something else to do when I got a notice of the event. I finally ran out of excuses for this one, and attended. Nearly all the class was there, except for a few that had bought the farm in 'Nam or were cut down by the Big "C", or were divorced from each other and will not be caught dead or alive in the same room together.

I realized there were three people there I really counted as friends in Highschool, and I did spend some time talking about the intervening years with them. However, there has been a lot of water under the bridge, and I know we have all changed in ways other than getting older. New life experiences do that to you. We soon caught up and then floundered for something else to talk about. One was a teacher, retired now due to health, and now chases tornados across the line in Oklahoma for a TV station. One is wrapped up in his businesses, very successful, and sorta on the edge of wealthy. One retired from the Air Force a Colonel, and he held numerous important posts overseas and in D.C., traveling widely.

The others I still had so little in common with, even less than in highschool because there we at least shared lessons. It was kinda funny and kinda pathetic at the same time, as I noted that my old classmates tended in the first half hour or so to start returning to the little cliques that they had been part of so long ago. I guess I did too, since I fell into my old role of observer, still the strange one, the outsider behind a protective smiling wall, never the participant. Some of them (about 20), but none of my old friends, live in the same town I maintain an address and am listed in the phone directory for, but there is no attempt on either part to contact the other. I suppose that could be seen as my fault as well as theirs, but really, there was no socializing between us in highschool, no points of common interest, and there still isn't. Those "bonds" are usually quite transitory for some of us, I guess. I left the "shindig" as soon as I decently could, and will not be attending another. A total waste of time.

And life goes on!

Jadeanne · Post by **Jadeanne** » Sat Sep 25, 2004 7:54 pm

Hi all,

I lost contact with all of my K-12 and community college classmates, transfering for last half of college, then working for a year midnight shift, then moving 6 hours away.

As for the 4 year college, the closest one I stay in contact with was a girl who was engaged to someone else until after graduation. We started writing to each other once in a while, and 2 weeks ago we celebrated our 27th anniversary.

My wife has a few GG classmates she emails, phones, and visits with periodically, including one she went through K-12 with.

Jadeanne

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