awkwardness...

When you haven't seen your friends for awhile, you half expect it to be awkward and half not. My biggest fear was coming back and seeing friends that were close when I left but now becoming awkward.

I went to my High School's 100th reunion this past weekend. What a way to spend my first weekend back in town, go down memory lane and walking through the hallways where I absolutely loved. Most of my friends who went there still say that it was the best years of their life. It was great but I've also had so many other great years in Uni that it's too difficult to rank but High School was the most special for me.

Seeing some of my highschool friends was not awkward at all, probably because I've known them for such a long time and we've basically grew up together. It was nice to hang out and see people that I haven't see since High school, especially people who were not in my graduating year. Most of my teachers retired the year we graduated, not sure if it's because our year absolutely drained them out or because they were fed up with the whole Harris vs. teacher battle. Yes, remember the years when Harris was Premier...wow that was a long time ago...Anyways seeing the retired teachers had made my week. It made coming back when I did worth it.

Meeting up with other friends, like teammates, were a little different. The initial greeting was quite awkward. You know when you've had an argument with someone about something really stupid and both party involved regrets it but don't want to be the first to admit it?? Well it kinda felt like that but not as extreme obviously. I didn't how to act really. I almost felt like the new player on the team, almost like an intruder even though everyone was talking to me. It didn't help when the coach wanted me to make them go on a longer warm-up jog like I use to. That was not happening on my first day there. I was not about to take over anything, just wanted to blend in the first day. It was fine, for the most part, once training got started.