August 24, 2007
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10 Years Ago
10 years ago this weekend I left the comforts of my Twain Harte home (the place I had lived since I was born) and arrived at APU to begin my college education. I had spent the summer actually dating a girl (which I hadn’t really done before), and even though that relationship was falling apart quickly regardless of my departure or not, it was an emotional car ride down. I was leaving the known and exchanging it for the unknown. This only scared me slightly; it excited me much more.
I remember some things very vividly about my first semester at APU–from my parent’s teary goodbye in front of Smith Hall, to my many memories of Male Chorale and the fantastic new friends I made (Mike Janke and my wife among them).Tomorrow however, I will not celebrate my arrival at APU (no matter how incredibly it changed my life forever), but instead I will celebrate the fact that it has been 10 years since I graduated from high school. The Class of ’97 will be among the few to actually have a reunion (the school is small and the alumni not all that motivated), and we will gather at the ole Mother Lode Christian School to chit chat and catch up. There is no program. It doesn’t cost any money. We aren’t doing anything fancy. We’re just going to hang out.
The fact that I have only spoken to two or three of the 16 people in my graduating class in the past 10 years makes the whole thing feel weird. I almost didn’t go, but I felt like I would most likely regret it if I opted out. I mean…I AM still the reigning class president. I have to show up.
I think the biggest deal of the weekend will be me and my old creative/musical buddy Leif performing an original song about the teachers of Mother Lode.
The chorus goes like this (think country twang and ridiculousness…)Oh where would we be
if we got taught for free
at a public school in Tuolumne?
Well, we wouldn’t be here
we’d be out drinking beer
turning all of our brain cells to pee…Our teachers, thank God
did a real thankless job
of making us all good and smart
They gave us our grades
made us march in parades
and in all, they taught from the heart
(awwwww…)If we can get video of it I’ll post it to youtube.
It’s going to be legendary.
On another note, Chad Reisser won’t get out of my CD player.
Our car’s CD player won’t eject the CD currently in there…which is…you guessed it…High School Musical 2
Nathaniel loves it.Here’s a sweet picture of Noah from Midway…check out his awesome shirt.
Comments (11)
Legen (wait for it) dary.
nice.
That shirt rules.
Nice work last night, nertz boy.
I wasn’t feeling well and I couldn’t see straight.
Not to mention that I’m a late nertz bloomer, and everyone left after about 6 hands. It was lame. I need to play for a good 12-15 hands (at least to 150) to win. That way everyone else poops out and I sprint to the finish line.
Scott Check! Song, first line, first verse.
I love the shirt.
The shirt is great! Pretty good song, too – if you put it on YouTube, be sure to let us all know.
) I graduated from Midway, and if they’ve ever had a reunion, I’m not aware of it. Our graduating class (the 2nd one over, I believe) was 12 people. The only one I still see all the time is Robert Sepulveda. I see a couple others from time to time, but who knows where the rest of them are?
SCOTT CHECK! OH CRAP! (sheepishly going to fix it)
O my gosh, you are just a kid!! LOL Nice shirt on Noah.
Noah’s shirt ROCKS!!! And the button was pretty cool too!! We’ll miss ya’s this weekend but enjoy your reunion. Personally I think they are overrated but hey, I totally understand the feeling that you may regret it if you don’t go. If my class ever has another one I know, now, I won’t regret not going! lol
My high school situation was similar, although I think we had about 20 graduate in 97. But we didn’t have any kind of reunion. I’ve heard rummor of the allumn association lumping together 96-98 for a ten year reunion next year… lame… Chad Reisser?? Is he on HSM 2?
^^^Chad sings backup for the whole album. It’s a pretty sweet gig. Check out Addisonrd.com
he blogs about it.