Last night I went to my first ever Mercy High School Alumni event. I feel old going to high school reunions already, but all Mercy girls have an incredible amount of Mercy pride (I can only think of one exception, so in this case I will use all). We went to school in a mansion (below), how can we not be proud of where we came from?
The alumna event was a wine and cheese night for the classes of 1996-2006. I don't like wine or cheese, but I talked myself into going in the name of seeing old friends. I wasn't sure how many people would be there because 10 years is a large span of classes, but it turned out most girls were from 2006-2001 (I am '04), so I knew most of the people in the room, and if I didn't know them personally and had at least one conversation topic to discuss after giving a big hug and a "OMG, so good to see you!" (Its' the Mercy way...), I recognized them from way back when.Conversation from last night:
Mercy girl 1: Everyone looks so pretty tonight!
Mercy girl 2: Yeah, because in high school none of us ever wore make up because it was an all girls school. No one to impress.
bahaahahah... so true!
When we went to Mercy, the staff never let us into the nice Mansion rooms, so all of us were surprised when the event was in the Mansion's study/library. The tables were covered in Mercy plaid (our infamous uniform skirts) and had tons of wine bottles. Everyone felt kind of weird holding free wine in our high school.
... Everyone, except for Jaime who felt like after 4 years of tuition, she earned a full bottle and put it in her purse!
The real reason I went was because I contacted most of the Mercy softball girls and told them that we should all get together. I saw 9 former softball players last night, one not pictured above, and another met us after the event. So cool to see everyone and hear how they are doing. A few are still in school, one teaches at Mercy, one is a forrest ranger, and another teaches Zuma dance classes, but everyone still has the same personality and all of our inside jokes were still funny.
When we went to Mercy, the staff never let us into the nice Mansion rooms, so all of us were surprised when the event was in the Mansion's study/library. The tables were covered in Mercy plaid (our infamous uniform skirts) and had tons of wine bottles. Everyone felt kind of weird holding free wine in our high school.
... Everyone, except for Jaime who felt like after 4 years of tuition, she earned a full bottle and put it in her purse!
The real reason I went was because I contacted most of the Mercy softball girls and told them that we should all get together. I saw 9 former softball players last night, one not pictured above, and another met us after the event. So cool to see everyone and hear how they are doing. A few are still in school, one teaches at Mercy, one is a forrest ranger, and another teaches Zuma dance classes, but everyone still has the same personality and all of our inside jokes were still funny.Glad I went, even though I was a little nervous before I left the house. Everyone looked great, and seemed to be doing well, so whatever Mercy did to us in high school it seemed to have worked.
Such beautiful young women ~ good for you for going, that takes some courage.
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