Do you stay in touch with any of your grade school friends?

[Cherylny]

Originally Posted by jacinda

Kimberly, I laughed when you described your 40,000 strong hometown as tiny. My hometown only had about 4,500 - 5,000.

I joined the army straight from school. That's a whole different life, so I lost contact with all my old school friends. When our 10 year high school reunion came around I was too shy to go by myself. My Dad (who was still a teacher there) said my friends asked after me. I had good friends through primary school and high school, but didn't feel the need to keep contact once I moved away. I only keep touch with a few Army friends now too.

It's all a matter of perception, isn't it? We had about 50,000 in my hometown, yet we considered it "small".

That's so cool that you went into the army! If I had it to do over again, I think I'd do that, too.