Reunion was mad fun...

Went to my primary school reunion last night and it was great fun. It had been years since I last met most of them and it was really good. We met up at Galaxy World and took a group photo there. One of my friends, Noah, is a DDR freak. On the hardest level, he managed a Perfect 236 combo. Now that's fricken insane.

We made our way to Star City and met up with the last few students and our old teacher Ms Ward. When we left for year 7, Ms Ward went to Africa to teach there and it was interesting to catch up. We spent most of the time at the buffet, eating, talking and joking. There were some very funny moments. One of them was Lesley meeting Tian, a girl from our former classes. She's changed a lot. She went from "good girl" to "extremely hot, bad girl" and Lesley was...well...afraid and uncomfortable. Supposedly he had a crush on her during year 6 (no real hard evidence, but since when do you need evidence for crushes?) and meeting her again was like a real shock to him. For me? Excellent eye candy and really nice to talk to.

Year 11 Seftonites will recognise and know Lesley's rather formal manner of speech, with big words and roundabout manner. For us, that's normal. For everyone else, it was weird and fascinating. Of course, when Tian (or was it someone else? Lots of people asked Lesley blunt questions) bluntly asked Lesley "Do you watch porn?" on the assumption all guys watch porn, Lesley couldn't really answer and tried to cover up by saying neither yes or no and asking questions back (like "If you assume all guys watch porn, why ask me?") but his manner of speech just ended up making him look guilty.

So we talked to around 9:30pm and the remainder of us decided to split. Several goodbyes and hugs later, my group of around 10 tried to make our way to Town Hall. We went down the escalator and had to go back cos it was the wrong side. I made a fool of myself by trying to go up on the down escalator and stacked it badly near the top. We walked and talked and a few of us got of at Granville and I went home, exhausted but certainly happy.

I kind of wondered why we can still meet and have so much fun after all these years. I discussed it with Noah and he said it was because we were an OC (Opportunity Class, not the TV show) class and were together for 2 years, year 5 and 6. It created a bond that never really goes away and Noah suggested we should do this again every couple of years. I suggested after our HSC, as most of us would be 18 then and the beer could flow. There was general agreement there.

I'll be posting some pics of the reunion if I can get my hands on some of the photos.