How Well Did You Keep In Touch With School Freinds After You Left School?

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A few of us here on GTP including myself have recently entered our final year of compulsory school. I have a fair few people i wouldn't like to lose contact with!

How well did you keep contact with friends after you left?
 
I don't.... - Not quite period, but close..

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I have one friend who sticks back from what in DK is the 8-10th grade (13-16 years old).

One from my Apprenticeship, though we don't see each other as often as I'd like (he got married and had kids while I moved)..

My second real serious GF (from 15 years ago) still pops up every once in a while...
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That's the people from my past who'm I enjoy talking to.. And I kinda like it that way - There's noone I miss, and more than a few I'm glad to be rid of..

[Edit:] And I should probably add this - I don't do re-unions either.. I see no idea in meeting people I've written off - Whether they won and became wealthy or lost and are surviving in the gutter... So it's a choice - not a result...
 
I never really see any of the acquaintances that I met in school anymore, but I still regularly hang out with the people that I considered (and still consider) my friends. None of us have moved away yet, although one spent a year at the University of Minnesota.

I met my best friend in 3rd grade, and we still hang out almost daily.
 
Only the folks I became good friends with which is essentially, Jason, Michael, Kelly, and about 6-8 others. It's rare for all of us to be together at once, but we usually make an effort once a month to hang out in Dallas. 1 of my better, but older friends though, Logan, moved away for while. He's moved back since, but he's down in Corpus C. now.
 
My best friend from Grade 8 is still my best friend and we catch up all the time. Apart from that I barely kept in contact with anyone until facebook :) Courtesy of facebook I went to a mate from school's 29th birthday on Wednesday who I hadn't seen since 1996.
 
I still see 90% of my highschool friends, but that's because they're at college with me. God knows what'll happen in 2 years time.
 
I have 2 best freinds, met the first in year 4, and the 2nd in year 10, which just happens to be Only_In_F1.

I dont plan on losing contact with them :)
 
You'll still see Only_In_F1 around here, so I wouldn't worry about that.

When I left school, I didn't keep in contact with anyone who wasn't at the college I went to. After college, I didn't keep in contact with any of the people I went to school with. I still see some of my college friends though.
 
The people I would consider my two best friends (I started hanging out with one all the time in May and the other one and I started texting daily in June) I still talk to daily. I have a few friends on AIM I talk to every so often.

As for all of my other friends, I will probably see them over Christmas or summer. So for the first month of being away, I have kept in pretty good touch. We'll see what happens in a few months.
 
Never kept in touch with anyone to begin with.
 
I planned on meeting at least once a year with most college friends, but sadly, we never got around to that. I usually exchange a life updating email with my best friends from college and high school at least once or twice a year... we usually make plans to meet up, but we rarely do, unless one of us is planning a trip closeby and then we'll make the effort to meet.

For example, I've met my college roommate twice in France, but only because I was there during my semi-honeymoon and then visiting my mum. But I didn't go to France expressly to visit him.
 
I haven't kept in touch with anyone that I wen't to school with, I have still have friends that I knew while I was in school, but the lads I mixed with in school are long gone. I met a girl I went to school with a few weeks back, we were chatting about what we'd been doing, people we used to know and sadly, one of the lads in the year below me, he was one of my school mates younger brothers, died of cancer about a year ago. He was 23 and he died of cancer, thats just screwed up. I've bumped into a few of them over the years, but I have no desire to attach myself to any of them again.
 
I have only kept in continuous contact with one friend from school. It's pretty much just christmas cards now (25years on) but when I am in Sydney I always make the time to see her. I went to a school reunion last year and caught up with my best friend from primary school and now we keep in contact by email and she will now be on my catch up list whenever I am back home.
I also keep in contact with my first ever real boyfriend from when I was 15 and lived in Scotland. We hadn't spoken for 25 years when he wrote to me and I met up with him in person again 3 years ago.
I got back in contact with a work mate from 23 years ago through a strange set of circumstances a couole of years back. I was doing this job for work and the co-ordinator of it who I had never met or heard of before just happened to be the ex of my old friend. How she pieced together that I ever knew this guy is still beyond me. So he is now also on my catch up list for my trip to Sydney.
 
I only have contact with one person I went to school with. That includes friends or otherwise.

For about 4 years I had no contact with anyone from High School. Then, I got a new job and a close colleague happened to be someone I sat next to in one class in my final year. We're now good mates, both at work and outside of work.

Although, two of my good mates went to the same school as me at the same time but they were a year ahead of me - I don't recall ever seeing them at high school.

So, in summary, I keep in contact with one person from my high school days. But if it wasn't for my job, then my answer would be none.
 
Keeping in touch does not run in my family... my dad rarely calls his siblings, let alone the random friends he has.

Same goes for me I guess. I take to 1 person I know from high school regularly still, and thats primarily via AIM. He is my best friend, but most everyone else I realized was more of an acquaintance with not much in common really. I randomly see my people from High school, but its mostly an awkward exchange that doesn't last long.

Of course, I also graduated in 03, so its been 4 years now. And I am not great at making good friends due to my rather eccentric nature, so meh.
 
Well I'm in my second year of college now (Not University for the yanks) and most my mates came to the same college as me so I still see them regularly.

My best mate however got a scholarship to a public school in Bristol so I don't see him at all in term time but with him only living next door it's never a problem catching up in the holidays. We keep up to date during term time but our friendship is based more around going out and having a laugh or talking while gaming/consuming alcoholic beverages so general chatter is handy for keeping up to date but not the best.

A few of my other friends went to a different college but one is in work with me and the other plays 5-a-side footy with me on a Sunday so I see him then. Probably helps that we all live withing 20mins walk/5mins drive away from eachother.

The only mate I've lost contact with is one that moved back to Leicester straight after we left comprehensive.
 
Not a single one. And, for good reason. I hated my high school. I literally had to cross two 'wrong sides of the tracks' and no, two negatives didn't make a positive. It progressively got worse with each rail road track.

I had to drive, or by bus, 8 miles to get to my HS, though the local town HS was just two blocks from my house. Stupid, huh?
 
I keep in touch with 1 very good friend. He became a police officer (commissioner) which can come in handy. Belgium is a very small country, so I see some school friends from time to time. I even see (every 10 years) my very first girlfriend. We were about 6 or 7.
 
Thanks to msn i still talk to about 5 people from school, 1 of those i see every 12mths at least, even though we havnt lived near each other (within 200km) for about 6 years. Id say out of those 5, probably 2 or 3 i will keep in contact with as much as i can, even if i ring them occasionally or use msn. And i will try to see them at least once a year (all of them now live 1000km away..)
 
Like, really keep in touch with? I'd say four or five, and three of them go to college with me. I tried to shed a lot of baggage when I left high school.
 
I didn't because my High school sucked that much. Thankfully I still live real close to my best friend.
 
Funny how many have kept in touch with one only. That's my score too. I've kept in touch with my best friend from school and he's still my best friend now. It's been 17 years now since I left school. I have not kept in touch with any of my other classmates, and none of my technikon classmates. I don't really miss any of them, either. Life just seems to get busier as I get older, and I find I have less time for other people than I did when I was younger.
 
We've been best friends for about 26 or so years? :sick: (has it been that long??) but yeah it's pretty amazing because at one point I thought he was going to move .Then when he got married I thought that would be the end, but I actually see him MORE NOW then before he was married. :lol:
 
I keep loosely in touch with friends from Highschool via myspace. You can find ANYONE on there! me and ma best bud Mike have been kickin' it weekly-ish since 8th grade. And a couple others from that time frame pop up from time to time. If it weren't for myspace (sadly) I wouldn't be in contact with half the people I know personally.
 
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I keep loosely in touch with friends from Highschool via myspace. You can find ANYONE on there! me and ma best bud Mike have been kickin' it weekly-ish since 8th grade. And a couple others from that time frame pop up from time to time. If it weren't for myspace (sadly) I wouldn't be in contact with half the people I know personally.
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Yeah, I've been doing that recently. It's surprising to see how much they've changed (some are almost unrecognizable).
 
Lets see, out of all of my best friends from High School, I can't say that there are many that I'm in touch with every day, but given that many of us stayed fairly local when choosing our schools, we bump into each other time to time at the store, otherwise, there is always Facebook.

Part of my problem was that I was friends with a good number of kids from the school, so I can't keep track of everyone. Some of my closest friends who I'd love to talk to as often as possible moved fairly far away, so thats a no-go either. Xbox Live surprisingly has kept me in contact with quite a few people, but not as many as I'd hope.
 
I didn't stay in touch with anybody from highschool after about a year of college. The only people I kept in touch with from college were the few I went to grad school with. I kept in touch with a handful of them for a couple years after grad school, and that's it. I haven't spoken to any of my old friends in several years.

Not out of malice, or anything, but life moves on. I don't particularly identify or define myself by any of those places, so there is no real need to keep them as my friends just to relive those times.
 
I didnt really keep in touch with anyone from school, its like the day 6th form finished everyone just went their separate ways. I guess I still see some of the people who live round my area though.

As for University im still in it so I cant really say, there are some people ive already lost touch with and I havent even left the place yet! :lol:

I guess its different to our parents generations were they have had solid friends since like 4! Its the damn internet, its frying our brains!

I guess im the type who likes to move on to new things and meet new people, Im not too bothered if I loose touch...

Robin :)
 
Fortunately all my friends from high-school go to the same pub every week, so I see a lot of them there. I'm still on 'Hey do you want to do something tonight' terms with probably 20 of them though.
 

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