by ShortyGU12

Created on: April 16, 2009

I voted that it doesn't hurt to reunite with people you went to school with because I do believe that there are people that you knew back then that you'd like to know how they turned out and perhaps kept in touch with but then there are others that should stay in the past.

I hated going to school in Norfolk, Virginia regardless of elementary, middle, or high school; all three were really terrible experiences as a whole. However, I did meet some people whom I ended up getting along with but those could be counted on one hand. Most of my graduating class were racists; they hated anyone who wasn't black and that was so ingrained in them that the guy that they voted as "Most Popular" I did not know who he was until a couple of my classmates told me that he aggressively made sexual passes at them that's great isn't it? The guy voted as most popular turns out to be a guy who refuses to take "No" for an answer. One of the girls had to threaten to hit him with a can of vegetables for him to get the message that she was not interested.

My ten year high school reunion was last year (2008), I never attended for the simple fact that I would most likely end up seeing people I loathed in school and it wasn't just the racist blacks; there were a dozen white people there that weren't exactly a nice bunch either at least one of them was mentally unstable seeing that she tried to axe her boyfriend literally. He's someone I've been to school with since I was a kid and probably the only one in that group that has an abundance of decency in him. Most of the others in that group were quite narcissistic and still are from what I've been told.

One of my ex boyfriends from high school, Adam, used to be quite busy growing up since he's highly intelligent and was doing many things in his teenage years; I certainly couldn't keep up. The last girlfriend he had that I knew of was a perfect match for him. We lost touch after the year 2000. In 2008 I joined Facebook because my table top group was in it and I thought it'd be nice to try out. In 2009 I had the realization that I could contact people from my past and sure enough, I was successful I even found my ex boyfriend Adam. I found out through his profile that he ended up marrying the last girlfriend he had and they were happy. We became friends on Facebook and when I did end up travelling back to America, we met up as two couples. I thought my husband would be uncomfortable with meeting Adam however, it was quite the opposite and we all got along. Richard and Adam got on quite well and I could see them becoming friends if we lived closer to each other but they promised to visit us when our house was done! Hopefully that will be this summer!

I've gotten in touch with other ex-classmates as well and that's been going well as well. I've gotten in contact with one ex classmate that was part of that white narcissistic group whom I thought was alright (like my other friend) but he showed his true colours when we spoke again; he was meant to be in that group too stuck on himself but it seems fate got him back by taking his hair at an early age; still makes me chuckle to this day.

So all in all, finding ex classmates on an i-social web is quite positive; you can laugh at those whom taunted you in school for whatever reason and see how horrible they're doing, you can finally take off some rose coloured glasses that you wore for some people, and reconnect with long lost school friends.

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