Wednesday, April 29, 2015

School Get-Togethers and Reunions

One day you will suddenly get an invitation about the upcoming homecoming party, or a reunion outing with your old classmates. Of course, the first thing you will feel about the news is excitement. You will wonder how people you have lost contact with already look like? What happened to their lives since the last time you have been together? And the thrill doesn't just stop from there.

There will be a lot of contacting people, inviting one and another for a goal to have everybody's presence in the reunion. It will be fun, they said. So you should come, they said.

Anyways, there are a lot of conflict before the successful reunion happens. The following are things considered  in holding a non-school hosted reunion:



1. When and Where - The first and looong debate revolves around the question when and where the party will happen. All of you tend to have busy schedules at work or at college, projects to finish, work tasks that needs to be attended to. One may be available to come on a Sunday, the others may not be able to come. That's where the debate starts. Of course, the majority always win in this debate.

Where is not that much of a thing to debate about. Everybody are easy to negotiate with regarding with what place they want the party to happen. What matters most is if they can come on the date being set.

2. Theme, Foods, Contribution-- FUNDS! - Okay, no one can host a party without funds. Funds for decoration, funds for food, funds for videoke, party games and stuff. That is why the theme is discussed next, whether through text, meeting or internet. If the majority wants an Children's Party theme, then they will list all the stuff they will need like balloons, party hats, confettis, and add up the total expenses and divide it to the number of people in order to be able to come up with how much each one should contribute for the fund to spend for the party. Yes, the theme also decides what the attire for the party or reunion should be.

3. Invitation - Of course, the invitation is done first, but then, when all the matters are settled such as the details about when and where the reunion will happen, how much the fund should be (if funds are needed), then another round of invitation comes out. Why? Because they can convince more people to come by being able to answer their questions.Party details are big factors that people consider if they should come to the party or not.


4. Designation of Tasks - A party is impossible if only one person will do it. Therefore, when everything is settled, the class usually divides themselves with a specific task. One group may be assigned to take care of the foods, the other group for the games and the other for the decorations.



5. Preparation - It is not always the officers who are busy with the preparation but those who leads the event. The one who came up with the idea himself. He/she will be backed up by people who are, of course, available to lend a helping hand. The preparation always comes a few days or hours before the reunion. So all the buying, cutting, pasting, cooking starts here.


If it is a swimming outing type of reunion, the preparation will be not that big. Only a brief reminder to everybody about the meeting place and time, and what they should bring.


6. Party Time! - The party should happen according to plan. But most of the time, it doesn't happen because everybody are starting to have too much fun they forget about it.


What about reunions held at school?

1. Initiative - Someone has to initiate the homecoming party to happen. It is mostly the school who gathers or contacts the graduating officers from a certain batch.

2. Gathering - Meetings are conducted at school (or anywhere agreed upon). The gathering always result into designation of tasks and theme of the party.

3. Designation of Tasks and Invitations - Leaders for each batch will start contacting their fellow batchmates/classmates to tell them about the task designated to them regarding the party. Everybody starts to become and excited and will go spread the news to the others.

In this part, the assigned task is being discussed already. It takes days or months to be able to come up with how to do their task.



4. Funding - Funds is a must in this kind of reunion party. There will be alumni shirts to be sold too.



5. Checking Out - They have to share the proposed plan to the officers in charge of the event, get their approval before finalizing a plan.



6. Preparation -  The preparation begins days before the actual date of the homecoming. Everybody tries to beat the deadline at this stage.



7. The BIG Day - This is the day that everything planned should be acted upon. The plan always happens (because it is a more formal gathering), except on the last part of the party where all that everyone have to do is to dance and party.


It doesn't really matter how you plan, what matters is everybody will have fun!

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