WWTKW: Ah, the good ol’ days…

This week, We Want to Know Wednesday is all about the good ol’ high school days!

Linking up with Scriptor & Kenzie for this trip down memory lane…

Here are this week’s questions:

1.) Describe what high school was like for you. Include details like where you went, your dedication to certain subjects, etc.

2.) On a typical Friday night in high school, what could you be found doing?

3.) Did you own a car in high school?

4.) Sum up your fashion sense in high school.

5.) Have you attended any high school reunions?

BONUS: If you have a photo and don’t mind showing us, feel free!

My answers:

1.) Describe what high school was like for you. Include details like where you went, your dedication to certain subjects, etc.

I went to Pontiac High from Grade 7 to Grade 11, and while I look back fondly on my high school years, it wasn’t always a walk in the park – I was far from one of the popular kids, that’s for sure.  I had a good group of friends, though, and I’m proud to say that we’re pretty much all still friends today!  The only classes I think I truly loved were English and Art, but I was a decent student, despite my tendency to be lazy and procrastinate.  I hated Math, and struggled with  it big-time, especially in Grade 10 and 11.  I had a good rapport with most of my teachers, though, and some of my favourite memories are of the silly mischief I got into in Mr. Deogun’s Chemistry and Physics classes.  He still calls me  “crazy monkey” when he sees me!

2.) On a typical Friday night in high school, what could you be found doing?

Oh, I was a pretty tame kid.  (Lame kid?)  I was either at home watching TV or movies with my family, or hanging out with my friends having sleepovers, watching scary movies and giggling and laughing.  We rarely got into any trouble, and I’d say compared to most other kids, we were extremely well-behaved!

3.) Did you own a car in high school?

HA!  No.  Lord, I didn’t even have my license!  My gang of friends weren’t too desperate to start driving, and most of us put it off as long as we possibly could.  I think I was 18 or 19 before I got my license, and another few years before I got my first car.

4.) Sum up your fashion sense in high school.

I had ZERO fashion sense.  Like… ZERO.  No joke.  I was a fat kid, and I didn’t know how to dress properly for my size.  If I wasn’t trying to squeeze into my sister’s way-too-small hand-me-downs, I was wearing boy clothes.  I bought men’s jeans all the time, because I could never find my size in women’s jeans.  And then, of course, the legs were too long and I refused to let my mom hem them.  I didn’t wear make-up, I didn’t know how to do my hair… I was a disaster, plain and simple.  I went for comfort – big and baggy, and when I look back on pictures from then, I literally cringe.

5.) Have you attended any high school reunions?

Nope.  Our ten-year reunion should have been in 2010, but I don’t think anyone organized one.  And truth be told – the people I was close friends with in high school, I still see on a regular basis, and many of the other people I knew in high school, I still see them a few times a year - it’s almost a guarantee to run into them at the Shawville Fair!  If anyone wants a reunion, that’s the time to get in on one.

BONUS: If you have a photo and don’t mind showing us, feel free!

OK – so this is a little after high school – I think it was the summer after my first year in college - but trust me, I probably hadn’t changed much.  Does this look like a girl who is meeting her hero & idol?  No.  I wore dumpy black jeans and a grey t-shirt to a sorta-fancy gala where I met  Ottawa Senators d-man Wade Redden, the biggest celeb crush of my life.  That was my standard hair-do – pulled back tight in a pony tail or bun, and not a speck of make-up on my face.  I shudder.

So what were your high school days like?  Go join the link-up and let us know!  Surely your high school experience has to be better than mine!!! ;)