Old faces...new people?

Last night I attended the first of two events I signed up for my Alumni Week this week. Kamehameha does it a bit differently than I guess the "traditional" high school reunion. Every year they have an Alumni Week, classes celebrating on the 5's and 10's (i.e. 5th, 10, 15th...so everyone who graduated with either a 3 or 8 ending are celebrating this year) are considered the "celebrating" classes and have first priority for all functions. After which Alumni Week is open to any alumni of the school. There are activities taking place all week, and this Friday is class night for each individual class to have their own reunion. And finally Saturday is the luau which I'm assuming will draw the most alumni.

So one of fun-est friends ever, Kaimi, talked me into going to the reunion. I wanted to sign up for more functions, but no one else could take the time off to go and my friend, Kaimi, is like the most social person I know so I didn't wanna go with just him because I'm not as social. So the first function was dinner at Dr. Chun's, President of Kamehameha Schools. This was probably the only free event and I thought it'd be neat for Taei to see the School Presidents house. Well the food wasn't all that great, but I guess times are hard...LoL!! Here's the only 2 pictures I took...

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One thing I ALWAYS loved and appreciated even while a teenager in high school was the view we had. Some times we'd have socials or other functions at night and the view of the city lights spanning over Honolulu, clear to the Leeward side is AMAZING.

So I'll admit it...I had second thoughts. Even though in my last post I talked about how proud of myself I am...that girl that actually attended high school inside of me started to get nervous. I wasn't the most popular, athletic, involved kid in high school. I was your typical kid, that went to school and went home. I attended most of our dances and socials, but that was about it. I had friends and I guess over 4 years of different classes, one will eventually get to know other people.

Before getting there I thought, "Why am I going?" None of my super close friends were going to this dinner...but like Taei pointed out, it was a free dinner. So off we went. From the moment we stepped in, it was like entering another world. Everyone was so nice and talking to each other! All the "celebrated" classes had designated tables. I was surprised at how not-crowded it was. Our class had probably about 40-45 people there and althought I knew everyone's names I wasn't overly close to anyone. Yet we talked, laughed, got updated...it was nice...it was alot more welcoming than I was expecting. Football boys sat with concert glee kids and even someone as uninvolved as myself sat and talked with them.

Our class night is Friday and while I wasn't planning on attending, I might now. Sometimes I think that if the me of today was in high school I'd be a completely different person than the one who actually attended. But in some small way, I'm sure all of us would've been different. Hindsight is always 20/20...and now that we're 10 years older maybe the old cliques don't matter. Or maybe they never did...but 10 years ago, we weren't comfortable with the person we were. In any case...I've overcome my first hurtle...so maybe the rest of this week will be a blast and maybe now when I see an old classmate at the store I won't be so quick to look away and pretend to be busy with something I'm not even planning on buying! LoL!