From: walkerr@yaya.WPI.EDU (Robert A Walker)
Newsgroups: alt.romance
Subject: Re: American High School & bits......
Date: 30 Sep 1992 21:31:35 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: yaya.wpi.edu

In article <BvC5v3.C69@kingston.ac.uk> is_b420@kingston.ac.uk (Brendan Rooney) writes:
>
>	Could someone pleeeeease explain to me about all this stuff in
>high school - y'know the school yearbook - the prom etc....  What does it all 
>mean? Does it mean anything? (No offence to anyone intended)  I see movies
>about some part of American life and it shows people looking in their yearbooks
>to see themselves in years past -- is it a requirement that everyone's face 
>appears there?   What exactly is the prom?

Well The prom and year books and such.  Well I'll give it to you in a story
about my senior year in high school, which just happens to be only last year.
It started off at the end of my junior year when i got up the nerve to ask 
out a girl whom people had been telling me for years i belonged with.  She 
is the key to my senior year and she will help  in the explanation.  During my senior year my girlfriends group of friends and my group of friends became very close.  There were always some ties, but we did everything together.  We are
all gone our seperate ways, but we more or less stay in touch.  Well, the year
book is that big bookk with everyones picture in it.  there are formal pictures
sports pictures.  events, and a bunch of pictures that some guy wiht a camera
took while we were all just being in school.  When we recieved them at the Senior banquet.  Not all schools have these,  this was paid for with the money
our class had made and was free to all seniors,  it was a formal type of 
a thing with a sit down dinner and dancing in a fance restaurant's banquet 
hall.  It was toward the end of the year and was like one huge bonding expierience.  I have many pictures of the banquet on my wall and even a few gifs of 
it too.  Back to the year books.  i have all my friends final "this is it, time for the real world"  speeches in my year book.  all my friends signed it and
in years to come will help me remember all the people who made that special
time in my life special..  Back to my girlfriend Sarah.  She was a senior
too, so she was there through all of this, which compunded the joy of my senior year.  After we had finished wiht finals we had our senior prom...   This is
a black tie affair.  Filet mignon, stuffed shrimp, tuxedos, the whole bit. 
Me and nine of closest friends reneted a limousine for the night, for transprotation to and from the prom.  The limo cost us each 70 bucks, the tux was 75, the meal was 40.  that wasn't that bad because the girls had to buy dresses that 
sometimes went over 200 dollars.  Plus they had their hair done and stuff
like that.  For all the money it cost me and Sarah probably about 500$ for the night for the both of us, I wouldnt' trade that night for anyting.  I had the
most fun of my life, and then with about 1 hour of sleep we all took off to 
the beach for a day of fun in the sun.  Me and my best friend both got sick
from sun poisoning, but who cares, it was worth it.  Then we graduated.  
We had a summer together and now all of us are spread out all over New
England.  Maybe you'll sort of understand about that type of stuff now.
Sorry you missed it.

>     If someone could be kind enough to explain to a totally unknowledgeable
>guy (me) about all of it, I'd be chuffed!
                                  ^^^^^^^^
Mind if i ask what does that mean?


                                                        Bob