Well, it was very nice to see them because one of them was my real 'best friend of life'. We had lots of memories together, either good or bad, making terrible chapter books (I'm not going to talk about it for now lol), liking the same boy, etc. Even though I left that school when I was 8 to go to a private school, she never forgot about me, we kept in touch, and she came all the way to the airport with her dad to see me off. Really, a great friend.
So we were talking about how everyone's life was after me leaving that school and Toronto. Since it was the kind of public school that everyone around the area all goes to, most of the people in the story after I left were people I knew very well, which was pretty cool. Most of them still live in their same old house that I know, and they still hang out together when they have time. For me, this was an odd but at the same time an awesome thing to hear cause it means all my friends from that school has been around together for like 15 years, growing older together, which never happened to me, and could've happened if I kept on going to that school together. I missed out a lot of stuff.
My friends took me to this Milestones for dinner, which was the place most of my friends worked as a part-time job, and afterwards they took me to a bar nearby where everyone usually hangs out. I was like, 'yeah, if I were with you guys after Gr.2 this is the life I would've gone through' for the whole time in my mind. Cause that's true, and that made me feel weird.
Fate is a really strange thing. If I had chosen a different option at each dividing points, my life would've never been the same. If I didn't change schools in Canada, I probably wouldn't have gone back to Japan, meaning I wouldn't have met most of the friends I have right now, and obviously meaning that I wouldn't have come to the University of Toronto as an exchange student like I'm doing at the moment.
And that made me think that schools are very important components of our lives. It all depends on which school you go to; the environment, the friends, the way you think, and your life. I heard that some of my old friends got caught by the police for doing naughty stuff (I'll just say that lol). Some of them are going through body modification, and some of them have huge tattoos on their arms (probably not that of a big deal over here but in Japan - it IS a big deal). I personally don't mind these at all, I won't judge them just because of this one aspect of them, especially because I know them since we were very small and we used to be very close. But it's something really interesting to think about cause I know no one like that in the all-girls private schools I went to afterwards, with friends that were, in a way, living in a 180 degrees different environment compared to them.
Either way it turned out to be, I don't regret the choices that I've made in the past. Since I experienced different types of schools and environments, I think I have a huge variety of friends. And that makes me capable to kind of understand how others feel in a certain situation, and what kind of people are out there - and I feel like these are all great advantages to me, since not everyone can have friends or experiences like me.
I feel like I can use my experiences for someone or something after I graduate from university and dive into the vast society... I don't know yet, but if the chance comes I'm willing to share it with lots of people. And I have to say that I am very happy to have the coolest and wildest friends in the world, thanks so much you guys, you all mean A LOT to me!!
Gotta go to dinner now!
Talk to you later.
