Ay! Nice topic! I missed all my reunions because I wasn't close to those people and was totally burned by so called friends (long story!) and the last one, my 25th, I got to send a message saying I couldn't be there because I was performing! I can't think of a more perfect "finger" to them! HA!!!

I went to my 20 year reunion Halloween weekend last year. Was able to attend because I contacted the bellydance school I originally attended, Sirrom, and had them sponsor me in a workshop that weekend. So the workshop show was Friday night, workshop for four hours on Saturday, showered at the studio and then was dropped off at the reunion. I wore my black Melo's, had dreads prominently displayed along with cherry red streaks in my hair...only my really good friends figured out who I was at first. If you hadn't guessed, heh, I was a total geek back then: Academic Decathalon all the way, zits and my head stuck in books all the time....well...not much has changed...
I handed postcards out to everyone who chatted with me and I don't think they could have been more surprised. Some really good friends were there and it was great to see that they were doing well, for a while there I could just imagine it was us way back then sharing stories in the lunchroom of what we did during summer vacation.

I sort of danced, they had a lame DJ that didn't prepare anything from the 80's so we hijacked his computer and created our own play lists and then we danced to our old favorites. As expected the guys said inappropriate things and the girls asked me to teach them how to shimmy but it was fun anyway.

No interest - I did try to drag a friend back from Australia for our 10th but no luck (she was getting married - the only way I would have attended was with her). I bypassed the 20th - actually ended up being in the same town as the reunion to take my kid to Disneyland for her fifth - found this out after the fact it was reunion weekend at a nearby hotel and was really glad I didn't run into anyone from HS there. This year is the 25th and I have absolutely no interest in going - don't even know if/when it is happening. I don't have much interest in being in touch with people from my HS so why would I? (Side note - I am actually in contact with some HS and even earlier acquaintances/friends but there are not many outside of these with whom I would wish to speak/correspond).

Mine's coming up (20th--yikes!!) this summer and there's a website where alums can put up their "where have you been" info, complete with "then and now" pix. Well, since BD is my sole occupation, I listed it, and since the best pix of me are photoshoot pix, I used one for my "now" picture.

I've gotten quite a few messages since then about how shocked folks are that I'm an inked up bellydancer when the last time they saw me I was a mild-mannered choirgirl. hee hee. This is gonna be fun!!

On a related note, one of my best friends from high school saw my troupe perform (and me for the first time) last month. She was so blown away by the entire show (lots of great dancers) that now SHE wants to take up our great art form! I had so much fun sharing my world with her!!

I went to my 10th last year. All the people that I care about and keep in touch w/ already knew I was a belly dancer. Everyone else found out when I started dancing. I'm from a very small town so everyone just stared at me as if I was from another planet!

Mine is supposed to be in 3 years, but I don't know if I want to go. High school was all horric memories for me, horrid people, a real nightmare. But maybe it would be kind of fun to go and people who remembered me as a dorky zit-faced nerd would wonder how the hell I got into bellydancing. I suppose the same reason I would expect many people to have mellowed out over the years and become nicer.

I should go :) And say I'm a bellydancer somewhere in my life story.

Awww I get shafted for reunions as I went to a Department of Defense school overseas- Heidelberg, Germany. We don't get reuinions per se but rather meetings at various places in the US (usually very far away) for ALL classes that have ever gone to that school. Yeah, what's the point then? Plus I think they just closed own my school anyway. I never kept in touch with anyone anyway- not much interest there for me.

Went to my 20th over Thanksgiving weekend.
I put a picture of me in costume on my classmates.com page and got a lot of emails from friends I hadn't heard from since graduation day!
At the reunion, the organizer (and owner of the bar where we held the event) asked me to dance. No one could believe that booknerd, band geek, math freak Julie belly danced! After two glasses of wine, I showed them. It was a blast! Several friends in the DC/No.VA area asked me for info about teachers for them or their wives ;-)

Haven't had mine yet, should be next year. And I am very curious how the peoples reaction will be. It was a catholic school... will be sure to post then ;-)
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