Classmates

I have had 30 classmates from 1 through 11 grade in Russia. All the same people, throughout all those years. Some people/kids did move out of the city/went to a different school, some came into our class, but there were very few of them. So, I know my classmates pretty well. Some of them I could not stand and vice versa, we all knew about it. Some of them were my close friends for awhile. Well, my class certainly left me many memories of school and my classmates.

We all know that in the states there is a website where the classmates can find each other: classmates.com. Well, in Russian classmates are called odnoklassniki. So, you guessed it. We have a website: www.odnoklassniki.ru

I accidentally found 1 of my classmate in the US. He happens to work at Deloitte as well (just like Matt). Actually, he found me, he found out my address at the class reunion (he lives in Chicago, but was in Russia for class reunion last year) and found out my address from one of the teachers I correspond with. So, when he wrote me a letter, he gave me his email and then in his email letters he told me to about this odnoklassniki.ru I registered there and found quite a few of my old classmates. It's really weird. I haven't talked to them in at least 7 years. And here I find like 13 of them. It does not seem like a lot, but it's over a third of my class that I haven't talked to in ages.

Anyway, some of them live in Moscow, so 4 of us are meeting this Friday for sushi (I think, unless we change our mind and pick some other restaurant). So, I am super excited. It's funny that one of the girls that is going to be there, well, she and I really did not get along. But now that we got older a little it does not seem to bother either of us that we were nasty to each other.

I find it cool that I will get to see people I spent so many years of my life, so many days of my life sitting in the same room with them and listening to the same teachers. I am looking forward to this Friday night. I think I will have fun. I just have to make sure I don't drink too much :) I haven't been the most disciplined person about that lately. Oops.