This June will mark the 20th anniversary of my graduation from high school. What do I remember most about that point in my life?
The year I graduated was also the year the teachers went on strike and we didn't start school until mid-September.
I had no boyfriend at the time.
I did not go to my senior prom. I had a horrible crush on a football player named John and I think he liked me too, but it would not have been "cool" to go out with me.
I got a D my last semester of AP Biology.
I was accepted to New Mexico State Univeristy, Lehigh University and Northern Michigan University. Since Northern offered me a partial scholarship and was in state, thus cheapest, I spent my first hellish year of college there. I was the only person in my graduating class to go there. Northern is located in the upper reaches of the Upper Penisula and it first snowed on September 24.
I got drunk at my graduation party and I don't think my parents realized it.
With the reunion fast approaching in August, I have mixed emotions. The ten year reunion was just as cliquish as high school and most of the women there were dressed as if they thought they were revisiting their prom.
I talk to only a very few people I graduated with. I really have no desire to talk to the rest of them, yet I am looking forward to seeing where 20 years has taken some of my classmates.
The most important aspect of the reunion of course, is WHAT DO I WEAR? Any suggestions are appreciated.