Apparently there's going to be a high school reunion for my matric year sometime next year. I read about it on Facebook a while ago and recently checked on the group again. Reading the Wall comments everyone is pretty much feeling the same way I suppose - "10 years have passed?!?!?!?".
One thing that made me go ! was someone's comment saying "yes! and we must bring our hubbies and wifeys and kiddies!". If you think about that for a second, you'll realise why I'm so ! about it.
There were approximately 150 of us in the year. If you double that it's 300: student + partner. And if you were to include 'kiddies', estimating that I'm not alone in my childfreedom and that some classmates have probably popped out 4, you could say there'll be 2 kids per couple. SO that totals 300 adults and 300 'kiddies'. It sounds horrible...
Firstly, all that a reunion is really is a parade of how successful everyone is now, how lovely they still look, how well they have (haven't) aged, how great their partner is and how cute/clever/etc their children are. To me, that doesn't sound like a great deal of fun.
Add to that 300 kids. I don't think I need to go into detail here. 300 kids. If the adults behave themselves (hopefully they have grown up a bit since matric), there will be 300 kids running around the entire time.
I dislike it enough when I'm forced to be surrounded by kids by being seated near the kiddies section in a restaurant, so I am not *willingly* going to go surround myself with 300 kids...!
Ugh. No thanks.
1 comment:
Not everyone will come - some ppl won't WANT to come, some will be overseas or not in CPT anymore. Some ppl won't bring their kids (some parents like to have kid free time too). And if it's an evening function I would say: no kids allowed! It's an adult function, not a party on the farm!
I hope you get to see some of your old school friends and catch up.
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