I’m back for graduation now. It’s today, in about four hours, bit more. My mum, Morten and I arrived yesterday. We arrived reasonably early, round 6 pm, then we met up with Abi and went to Wolverhampton to eat at Nandos. We had a great evening. Then we went back to Walsall and stopped by the Wheatsheaf for a little while, where we ran into Josh, Emma and Lindsey, and a guy I suspect I may have met before but don’t know what he’s called.
It’s really strange being back here. It’s weird how much you forget. Not the people so much as the layout of things a little bit… It’s like stepping back into an old life. You know all the steps, you just have to remember them. Every time I come back to a place here, it’s like I never left, except I did, and I’ve been gone for nearly four months.
My life here was separate from my life at home. Because I was alone here, and there were all these new people and nothing was familiar, it was like it was a different world. When I got home, it was a bit like everything here became a distant memory. I don’t remember names and faces that I don’t see on Facebook every day, or have a bunch of photos of, before I suddenly see them and they’re just there, and I’m like, “Of course, that’s that person!”
It’s a bit ridiculous.
I’m a bit nervous of meeting all my classmates, too. At least some of them… A couple have unfriended me on Facebook, and I’m not sure why. I wonder if they’ll just ignore me when I see them or talk to me again or what. I don’t want to make a big deal of it. If they won’t speak to me, I’ll leave them alone. They don’t have to. And I don’t want any drama. This is supposed to be a happy day. I get to wear a funny hat!
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Mortar boards for the win! They also make good frizbees.
I’ll have to try that out some day!
I know some people that use FB as a means of hooking up pub evenings and the like and are forever unfriending people who’ve done stuff like move to a different town, so won’t be going to the pub with them, unless it’s been “more organised” or they’re visiting a mutual friend who says something like “so-and-so’s invited a group of us to the pub this evening; want to come with?”
Yeah, I’m fairly certain that’s not what’s going on here. One of them unfriended me after I inadvertently offended her. I sent her a message and apologised, but haven’t heard back, so whatever. The other one is friends with the first, so I’m wondering if she unfriended me for the same reason. To be honest, I don’t care all that much about the first, as I think it’s childish to unfriend someone without saying why and not even responding when one tries to apologise. I do care about the other one, though. We hadn’t talked for a long while, and things got a bit weird between us, but I really do like her and want to still be her friend… We ran into each other when we were picking up our graduation robes, and then we talked, so I took a chance and friended her again, but she hasn’t responded to the request.