Back to school we go!

Today I went to my school's carnival. They have one annually and I used to love going to them as a kid! Getting my face painted, putting people in the fake jail they built (you pay money to have people track down a friend and lock him up for a while in a fake prison haha), riding the camel...it was loads of fun. This year everyone was very enthusiastic about going and turning it into a reunion! We got invitations by email, and people on facebook were telling each other to come. So I got really excited! I smsed everyone I knew who was an Alsson alumnus, and Dina and I decided we were going regardless. So I go to her place, take my bro along, and turns out Hatem and Sherif (both I knew from school and both were on my school bus with me for years) were the ones taking us! So the car ride alone was such a cool reunion! Remembering all the people, remembering their gossips, laughing about who we were still in touch with and who we cut out of our lives. We get to the school and boy was it crowded! Cars EVERYWHERE. We walk in and the nostalgia begins...everything seemed so much smaller! The bench we used to sit on when we were waiting for PE class to start seemed tiny! The theater, oh my God the theater, totally changed! There was this donkey we had at school called Sombol who used to make so much noise when we had class. A guy at school today took us to go see him and even though we knew akeed this wasnt THE Sombol we still got kinda sad and stood to take photos with this Sombol lookalike. We said hi to old teachers who still remembered us! We met some old faces whom we hadnt seen in years. I so wished I had taken some of my friends with me to show them the school, especially Askoura. We all were really emotionally attached to this school...I remember how homesick I felt in my first year in uni...just wanted my school back! It was nice to re-live the memories, and to re-live it with the people I had with me today. Remembering the spot we used to go to when we used to skip class, the stuff we used to buy from the cafeteria which we thought was so cool, the place we used to stand to salute the flag in the morning, ah so many memories! I think I will go to these annual carnivals more often.