How to relive prom night in south africa.

[GreyBush]

You pay a matric girl to take you and your GF pays a matric guy to take her... then you split from your partner and join up with your GF.

Still really creepy though.

 

[Kornhub]

You should choose your ladies more carefully.

@ss

I have my matric dance on dvd :erm:

 

[GreGorGy]

You pay a matric girl to take you and your GF pays a matric guy to take her... then you split from your partner and join up with your GF.

Still really creepy though.

Hey that's not really a bad idea is it? Find a matric couple, cover their costs over and above the usual, and then they can hook up at school and you can.

creepy indeed.

 

[RustyPrincess]

I think adults call it a wedding. You get to dress up, have food that was prepared hours ago, and there is dancing. So either get married, or try get invited to a wedding. Also weddings have booze, matric dances have booze which you have to hide in hip flasks.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Probably the most overrated night of my life to be honest.

The party at my house after the fact was much better than the night itself.

 

[zolly]

****. My matric dance was horrible. Geeeeez. I was super shy and a friend of a friend got some poor girl to go with me. I barely said a word to her (I went to an all boys school and basically had 0 contact with women that weren't family until I went to Varsity, so this whole thing was extremely terrifying at the time).

And school sucked in general. If you're at the top of the social ladder then it's fine, but for us late bloomers it was pretty crap in general. I was teased for pretty much all my hobbies! I taught for a short while when I was 23/24 and I was only teaching people 5 years younger than me. I found it really funny that I could chat to everyone since my "nerdy" hobbies were now things everyone did.

At least now things are different (in more ways than one)

 

[lived666]

become a high school teacher and then you get to go every year

 

[Gtx Gaming]

yeah maybe its just plain creepy haha

but was just a thought , will take her to decent event rather

thanx guys , closing thread , if any admin can close please

 

[abandonallhope]

People who think school years were supposed to be good because you got to be cool and hang out with your awesome kiddie gang, still haven't really grown up.

School years were good because you had zero worries and stress. 4 Holidays per year of 1 - 5 weeks, sit in a classroom from 8h - 14h, with 2 breaks, and then spend maybe an hour doing the most important homework. Life necessities were sponsored by your parents. I envy even the hopeless little dorks trudging home.

 

[TelkomUseless]

I enjoyed school, I even miss it a bit. But, i miss it because of the freedom i didnt realise i had. Got to spend tons of time with friends, playing sport and misbehaving.

Pretty much same goes for varsity.

+1

and added vacations etc.

But going into teaching just so that you can re-live those days? No way. Kids today are totally different to when we were in school. Money sucks in teaching..


Edit: I didn't go to matric dance. What a load of crap.

 

[TelkomUseless]

I went from Jhb to ct to attend my high school 10yr reunion and ended up leaving within the first hour. Ssdd(ecade)... can't see why you'd want to relive the matric dance unless it's just an elaborate way to have some sexy time in the toilets somewhere. It will never be the same as your "own" matric dance though.

I had similiar experience with 10year reunion. What a freaking waste of time. I will def skip all of them....

 

[zolly]

School years were good because you had zero worries and stress.

Maybe you did. School was far more stressful than my working life has ever been (except for a couple of times - learning to stand up in front of a class and teach, and the stress of trying to deal with managers while they investigated the staff to find who was stealing).

Otherwise school was at best bearable, but yeah, most of the time it's pretty *** getting picked on and bullied.

I do have some good memories, but that was mostly because of my friends.

 

[zolly]

I had similiar experience with 10year reunion. What a freaking waste of time. I will def skip all of them....

Never been to a reunion, and doubt I ever will. I'm still in touch with anyone who I care to stay in contact with.

 

[TelkomUseless]

Never been to a reunion, and doubt I ever will. I'm still in touch with anyone who I care to stay in contact with.

It was like school all over again (the clicks/groups etc). Was no fun at all. You don't miss anything.

Ok.. none of my friends went.. but I thought at least it would be cool to chat to other people. But nope.... same "clicks" etc.

 

[rorz0r]

It was like school all over again (the clicks/groups etc). Was no fun at all. You don't miss anything.

Ok.. none of my friends went.. but I thought at least it would be cool to chat to other people. But nope.... same "clicks" etc.

Yip pretty much the same experience... People don't change.

 

[abandonallhope]

Maybe you did. School was far more stressful than my working life has ever been (except for a couple of times - learning to stand up in front of a class and teach, and the stress of trying to deal with managers while they investigated the staff to find who was stealing).

Otherwise school was at best bearable, but yeah, most of the time it's pretty *** getting picked on and bullied.

I do have some good memories, but that was mostly because of my friends.

As I said, then you still need to grow up. The responsibility that comes with a career, far outweigh being bullied at school.

At school you could keep a low profile and ignore lousy comments and being pushed around. In your work environment the buck stops with you when you are responsible for something. You can't ignore that, if you do you stand to lose your job and your livelihood. You can't keep a low profile in your job or you would be dodging work, that usually doesn't fly.

 

[TelkomUseless]

Yip pretty much the same experience... People don't change.

100%

 

[Tinuva]

As I said, then you still need to grow up. The responsibility that comes with a career, far outweigh being bullied at school.

At school you could keep a low profile and ignore lousy comments and being pushed around. In your work environment the buck stops with you when you are responsible for something. You can't ignore that, if you do you stand to lose your job and your livelihood. You can't keep a low profile in your job or you would be dodging work, that usually doesn't fly.

Mostly agree with this. If I had to go back to school with the changes I made to myself...it will be vastly different to what it was back in school.

That said, I am not really interested in going back to school, reliving prom or even going to re-unions, however interesting it would be, I have far better things to do now.

I personally think, going to a wedding with someone you like is far more fun than going to prom again, not that I actually went to one.

 

[abandonallhope]

Mostly agree with this. If I had to go back to school with the changes I made to myself...it will be vastly different to what it was back in school.

That said, I am not really interested in going back to school, reliving prom or even going to re-unions, however interesting it would be, I have far better things to do now.

I personally think, going to a wedding with someone you like is far more fun than going to prom again, not that I actually went to one.

Absolutely, most people move on and set their sights on new things. Such is life. I was one of the hopeless idiots in school, but I've always had a thick skin, so that actually helped me then, it usually is a bit of a problem. So yeah, there are very few people from school that I would go out of my way to chat with again. Skipped matriek afskeid and all that other **** the cool people fawned over.

Most people also enjoy letting the child in them get out every now and then, it is fun.

 

[zolly]

As I said, then you still need to grow up.

I'm not sure what you mean by grow up? Be more responsible? You mean follow a path that society says you must follow? Grow pubes? Hit the gym? Take on responsibilities that will drive me into debt? Please define what you mean by grow up.

The responsibility that comes with a career, far outweigh being bullied at school.

That depends. If you got yourself into debt (house/car/flat/etc) and the only way to keep yourself above water is to keep on making more money then yes, I can see that could be quite stressful. I chose a simpler life and I never put myself into debt to buy stuff I can't afford (except for plane tickets twice a year). I don't have things most 29 year olds have, but I also see the stress my friends go through and I don't think it's worth it. I have a regular part-time job in corporate that keeps my head above water, a bit of savings, and a pension plan. I pick up extra work which helps grow my creative skills (writing/illustration/other media related work) since this is what I am slowly growing into a career.

At school you could keep a low profile and ignore lousy comments and being pushed around.

Again. You seem to think that the way you were bullied (if you were bullied at all) is the defacto. For example: for two years I had a guy and two of his buddies come looking for me after school (not all the time but enough that I had to make sure I was someplace safe until they left the school grounds). As a kid, the constant threat of physical and emotional violence can weigh on you pretty damn heavily. At least I didn't have to deal with that once the main guy got expelled. And this is just one example of two years of my awesome school life.

In your work environment the buck stops with you when you are responsible for something. You can't ignore that, if you do you stand to lose your job and your livelihood. You can't keep a low profile in your job or you would be dodging work, that usually doesn't fly.

Um. So do your job to the best of your ability and chances are good you won't get fired? Assuming the economy is decent anyway. But then again, the corporate world is such these days that even the idea of a "permanent position" is a bit of a joke. Again, no debt makes your career far less stressful.

TLDR: as an adult you have WAY more control over your life than you do as a child. As an adult I can limit and deal with the stress that comes into my life. As a child? Yeah, not so much.