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Off-Topic => Off-Topic: Talk about anything you want. => Topic started by: Sara on August 11, 2006, 03:44:16 PM
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You know, band people, stoners, jocks, cheerleaders, etc.
I can honestly say I was clique-less. I had friends in all groups, but mainly hung out with 1 or 2 other clique-less people.
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I went to a very prestigious school in Barbados - Queen's College. It is nearly 200 years old, which means that when it started, the only students were the daughters of the planter class. Slavery was abolished in 1834, and then it was only in the early 1900s that some black people were allowed in the school. Two of my sisters went there in the late 40s, early 50s and I went in 1959.
By the time I was there, the school was half-white, half-black. There were no overt racial problems, but of course, people generally stuck with their colour. But generally, it was not a cliquish school, as we didn't have 'jocks' or 'cheerleaders', but I suppose there always was a kind of 'in' group. What I found was that, during school, people generally did not show big preferences; we all just hung out with our classmates. But when school was over - general apartheid. 'We' didn't know how 'they' lived. and 'they' didn't know how 'we' lived. Strangely enough it was a kind of pleasant apartheid. It was just the way it was, and everyone accepted it. Not to sure what it is like now, since all our schools have now been made co-ed. I am against that by the way. Maybe I will get on my soapbox in another thread.
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In our school, the jocks were the stoner's. Never won much at soccer, but heck we put the HIGH in high school. ;D
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lmao @ joepaul, i gotcha brother, lol, now that's what i'm talking about, yeah!!!
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lmao @ joepaul, i gotcha brother, lol, now that's what i'm talking about, yeah!!!
I know what "Clique" goofynina was in while in high school, but I can't say because she would BAN ME! :o
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They called us "The Group". It was just a bunch of us that had grown up together and we really didn't welcome new people.
When I got to college I didn't know how to make friends. I never had to. I had a pretty rough time. I had to be NICE??!! :o
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LMAO @ Epoman, your darn skippy there pardner ;)
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I was in the "Square, good smart kid group". Still am I guess.
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I hung out with the marching band and the choir in high school. We weren´t the "in" group but we sure had a lot of fun >:D. I had lots of part-time jobs in college and no time to be in any group.
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Whoops :o That group thing ::) At school in the wrong group, I do not know if it was because I was on dialysis, I just had to go that one step too far will most of the teachers. If anyting broke, went missing there was a group of use who always got the blame :o Plus usually the cane too(OUCH IT HURT >:( If it was PLUG the headmaster who caned us) College sailed though it. Managed to get 20minutes longer on the exams because of my fistula ;D Made them well easy ;D Even now I am in the best Snooker team in the league. We always end up winning it. That is where I have just come back from playing Snooker at two clubs. Plus a quick game of cards.
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I belonged to the class clown group. Anyone that knows me has no trouble believing that. ;)
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I never belonged to any group. I moved a lot so I never really had many friends. Although it seemed that everyone knew who I was, but I rarely knew who they were.
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I was the loner and didn't get along with any group. I drank alot, guess thats why I don't drink anymore. Had enough in high school.
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I didn't belong anywhere as I was sick all my childhood and teen years until I had my transplant. Then I finally made my first friends, joined a band, started drinking and smoking and skipping school and then got kicked out of my parents house and have been living on my own ever since. :P I went from being a shy non-friend goody-goody loner, to a wild rebel just from the transplant (When you are sick since birth no one realizes how it is to live without that energy every healthy person takes for granted!!).
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No clique at all. I was interested in radio so I hung out with people that were 30 and 40 years older than me at the time. I guess I was a geek, I guess I've always been a geed, I am a geek!
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I was in the "headbanger" group. Most of the boys had long hair, we all wore Metallica t-shirts, denim jackets with patches all over them, skinny black jeans. Hung out in a wooded area called "the fells" or at a rehersal studio were alot of the guys had "bands" that were gonna make it big some day. (Ya right!) Those were the days, mid eighties. :D >:D
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My school was so small, there really weren't too many separate groups. When the whole class is only 19 kids, you tend to hang out with just about everyone. I think if I'd been in a bigger school, I'd have ended up with the rest of the overachieving geeks, though! (I was valedictorian, in year book, drama club, National Honor Society, Student Council, JV and Varsity Basketball, and I did stats for the boy's teams. Definitely a geek!)
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My school was so small, there really weren't too many separate groups. When the whole class is only 19 kids, you tend to hang out with just about everyone. I think if I'd been in a bigger school, I'd have ended up with the rest of the overachieving geeks, though! (I was valedictorian, in year book, drama club, National Honor Society, Student Council, JV and Varsity Basketball, and I did stats for the boy's teams. Definitely a geek!)
It's funny but thats exactly the way I would have pictured you, valedictorian! That is meant as a compliment.
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It's funny but thats exactly the way I would have pictured you, valedictorian! That is meant as a compliment.
Thanks, I think. . . :D
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It's funny but thats exactly the way I would have pictured you, valedictorian! That is meant as a compliment.
Thanks, I think. . . :D
You remind me of my sister. The family brain. :)
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I was a floater in high school. I had friends in a lot of different cliques, and I would just hang out with who I liked. I had friends who were geeks, friends who were stoners, and friends who were "cool". I was into orchestra and drama and the science club.
I guess I marched to my own beat. I wasn't popular, but people know who I was. It helped that I had a really cute older brother
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I was kind of a "floater" too. I took college prep classes in high school, including "accelerated" classes. So, in those classes my friends were very smart, and/or "geeky". My favorite classes were math and art (figure that out!) I guess it just means that I use both sides of my brain. I started dating my husband when I was a sophomore and he was a senior. He was kind of a "bad boy" back then (I was always attracted to that type!) He was 18, which was the legal drinking age back then, so on the weekend we would PARTY! This was in the late 70's, so things were a lot "looser" back then! I also had my good friends, Lori H. and Lori T., who were my neighbors and friends since elementary school. They were "straight arrows", and even though they knew I partied alot, we still remained great friends...even to this day!
So, the bottom line is, I was pretty much friends with everyone...the cheerleaders, the jocks, the stoners, the geeks, the over achievers, etc. We had about 300 in our graduating class, and I can honestly say I probably knew everyone by name. I always help plan our class reunions and they are a BLAST...one big party, and everyone gets out and dances with everyone else.
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Put me down as the "geek" !!!
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I was the flaky-didnt pay attention-wanted to go smoke up the bathrooms and skip kid...............geeze what a dumbass I was......
I tell my parents they should have beat me with a board,I still apologize for being such a jerk.
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I did not go to kindergarten and started first grade when I was 5 so my 2 best friends
one that was 4 mos. younger than I and the other 6 mos. younger were in a grade
behind me. I always regretted that. But anyway the one that is 6 mos. younger
is still a neighbor who lives down the st. and we've been best friends and neighbors
our whole lives. we both have 2 sons. both have 1 grandson. It is a 60 yr best friendship.
not too many of those. She has helped me thru many rough times and still does.
Anyway back in high school a group of us had square dances all summer long. was so fun.
belonged to marionettes that was marching group with the band. I was average student.
Now days wish I would have higher aspirations.
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So, the bottom line is, I was pretty much friends with everyone...the cheerleaders, the jocks, the stoners, the geeks, the over achievers, etc. We had about 300 in our graduating class, and I can honestly say I probably knew everyone by name. I always help plan our class reunions and they are a BLAST...one big party, and everyone gets out and dances with everyone else.
I really wasn't a part of any clique. I always did my own thing without a group of people, I had a few good friends but never a huge circle of friends. I didn't really fit in with any of the groups anyway. We had drama geeks, band geeks, stoners, sport dudes, straight A's and the outcasts. If I had to catogorize myself right now I'd say I was an outcast, not knowing who's or what mold I fit in. I was made fun of by the cheerleaders but the stoners used to stick up for me. ::)
IF anyone is interested go to classmates.com and look up Rutherford, NJ High School class of 1980 to get a glimpse of my HS life.
Donna
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:bump; I was in the great grades, cheerleader, twirler, football player group :grouphug;
until college then the :beer1;
Girls Just Want to Have Fun group :yahoo;
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I was in the mouthy, rebel-with-a-thousand-causes camp and hung out with some of the popular girls. I was sort of popular, mostly I think for help with homework. In university I was always the youngest by quite a lot and mostly studied and got high. I even studied and wrote papers at parties.
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I loved to wear lace collars and pearls. Can't stand lace now. I hung around with the preppies, techers, and stoners. I got along with everyone. :bandance;
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the jocks
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I grew up in "the valley" in So. Calif. I was pretty shy and my grades were ok in high school. I hung out with the smart girls and the bad boys. Somehow it all worked out. My graduating class had 600 students, and I was lucky if I knew 10% of them. Only went to junior college for a year and was mostly alone. I was working fulltime and didn't fit in.
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I was part of the band geek crowd and also the smart, good girls in high school (you know, the ones who never dated much so they didn't have the chance to be bad). I was head twirler but Mr. D, the conductor, had a weird rule that the baton twirlers had to also play an instrument and be in band. I played clarinet but wasn't good enough for first chair by any means. Twirlers were lower than low in popularity but I put up with it because I was a fairly decent twirler. Cheerleaders that I'd known in grade school and junior high wouldn't even say 'hi' anymore. But I graduated in the top 10% in a class of over 850 students so there were plenty of other people to be friends with.
Amazing how so many of those "popular" kids haven't amounted to much today.
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My best friend, Mary and I were our own clique and we got along with everyone. I had the leads in the plays, she was the president of Homemakers of America. We went to every dance within a 30 mile radius---school, town hall dances, church socials---any where they played rock and roll! (Ohio Buckeye--I belonged to a square dance club in Columbus!). I worried too much about being "good" and making good grades. My mother was Executive Director of a large camp and hired many of my teachers as summer counselors, so I had great relationships with the teachers. Mary and I went to slumber parties with the cheerleaders and were best friends with the "hoods". Mary and I met in 5th grade and she has been my best friend ever since. I lost Mary to a brain aneurysm a few years ago and I miss her more than I can say. Now I'm crying. I LOVED high school.
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SQUARE
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looking back, I think my group was the nerds, but we were all such good friends to each other and had such a good time together that we didn't care (or notice, for that matter!). I was a cheerleader, but our squad was such a mix of personalities that most of us barely saw each other outside of school.
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The pot smokers.
Not proud of it.
Just being honest.
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Great majority of my close friends in high school were the jocks and cheerleaders. But, I spoke to everybody. I wasn't "stuck-up". Maybe that is the reason I won superlative "Friendliest" in middle (jr. high) and high school.
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I was a part of the smart, preppy kids clique. Top 10 percent of the class, National Honor Society, clubs up the wazoo, scholarships up the wazoo. We were the goody two shoes group, I guess. We never dated, drank, did drugs, or partied. I look back now, and realize that we were never really that good of freinds because no one still talks to anyone else in the group. By the time I went to college, I was so socially retarded,, that I never really made any good friends in college either. I absolutely hated college. I was severely depressed throughout those years. It was very sad. A year ago I signed up on classmates.com. I've gotten a few guestbook signings, but the stupid site charges too much to view those postings, so I have no idea was checking in with me!
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I'll admit it -- I was a big old NERD!
Still am, according to my husband.
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I'm very fortunate that I still keep in touch with my high school friends. Even though we are spread through out the nation, we still manage to keep in touch through letters and telephone calls. I have close friends in Korea, London, Italy, Puerto Rico, Georgia, California, New York, Florida, Alabama.
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I was in the band group and the good girls-good grades group. But then came college--I think my major was :beer1;. Then I realized I would have to "grow up" so I could get a job.
Nola
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For the first 2 years of high school I was in a public school and LOVED it. I had to so much fun, I make friends easily so I hung around with everyone and was completely boy crazy. In Sophmore year I ended up getting a D in a class and was so afraid to show my parents that my then boyfriend created another report card for me on the computer and changed my grade. Unfortunately, he forgot to put the school logo on it and my parents grouded me from the boy and pulled me from public and put me back into Catholic School :(.
My last 2 years I was in an all girls Catholic high school, my graduating class was 24 girls, needless to say we didn't have any cliques! My parents didn't cure the boy craziness though. We were affiliated with an all boys Catholic high school. Pair up both schools and you have horny hormoned teenagers!!! :bandance; :bandance;