In a month’s time I will be packing my bag for a trip to Leicester Saturday morning, for a university reunion weekend!!! As much as I am excited about going I am also extremely nervous because I have not seen anyone from university for about 12 years, when Sophie, one of the girls I shared a house with for the 3 years I studied, came to Devon for a weekend. Asides from seeing her, I have not seen anyone else from my uni days
since the summer of 1997 when I met up with my former housemates to bid farewell to Sally who was heading off to Australia for a years travelling. That was 18 years ago which is such a long time ago it is crazy and this was us back then, a year after we graduated.
It is not a reunion on a massive scale, as it is an unofficial meet up and I dont actually know who will be there, so it is not a planned get together in a hired venue, with hundreds of invites. It is simply some of us meeting up for 1 night and 2 days.
The thing is because I have not seen any of them for such a long time, I am worried that maybe we wont get along or maybe they wont like me. They have all met up regularly since we graduated, and I am the only one who has not been a part of this. Plus when I moved back to Devon in 1996, they all remained in Leicester for a bit so they have that bond too. I have been invited to at least 2 celebrations where I could have met up again, one was a couple of years ago when Burton wa sa small baby, and I just did not have the confidence to go with him alone but there was no way I could have left him at home due to me breast feeding. Then just earlier this month, I was invited to Katrina’s 40th bithday bash, but it was such a long way to travel for 1 night plus the cost of getting there and staying over night so I didnt go.
This is the thing, I have to go, and I do want to go, because I know I have missed out on seeing them over the yeras and it makes me sad about that because we were all so close and such good friends when we left uni and even when we met up again in that photo, and I miss that I have not been a part of their lives these 18 years. I just hope it goes well.
They all landed such good jobs, well careers when they graduated and although I got a couple of good jobs inmmarketing, they never paid very well and I always felt like the poor relation so I made excuses not to go because the truth was I could not afford to travel to Leicester or London. I did not want to admit to this so I kept making excuses. I regret this now because I have missed so many meet ups over the years.
However, I will be booking my train ticket this weekend and I will be heading back to Leicestaaaar , a place which holds many fab memories of a great few years spent there. They were such fun times and those girls helped to make it so. Fingers crossed it will be as if 18 years has never passed. And maybe we will be cutting some more shapes on the dance floor, just like this lol
I am sooooo out of practice though, going out and letting my hair down I mean!!! Oh well, what will be, will be .
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There you go, showing off that tanned taught belly again!
I’m sure you’ll be absolutely fine…you get along with anybody! X
You’ve not changed a bit! How fun to have a meet up! I’d love to have a school reunion although, with FB, it’s as if you never left sometimes. x
I’m sure it will be absolutely fine once you get there but I can understand your reservations. Go and have a great time! x