Run 24:00 [3] 3.35 km (7:10 / km)
FOllowing a late night at the school reunion I could only manage a pathetic plod around Blackburn Lake this morning. My legs were aching when I woke up - I really don't like standing for hours at social functions (I am also a fainter, so I don't like standing still). But the reunion was all good although only 45 out of the 180 girls in my year made it. It took us a while to recognise each other, in some cases. Others looked exactly as they had at school. I am avoiding a day of lunches and dinners though. Last night was enough.
Our school was extremely liberal in my day (before it was taken over by the continuing Presbyterian church, who installed the former head of a Scottish boy's reform school as principal). We were taught to be very independent and socially aware. Sexism was never mentioned and most of us were not aware that girls are treated differently in society until we were well into our 20s. Even our religious education was about every other religion other than Christianity. The result - the majority of girls are now very independent and left wing. Probably not the outcome our parents had intended when they sent us to the school.
I used to be one of the last single girls left. But not now. Somehow a number of my friends naively married drug dealers and other crooks - only to have all their money stolen. There were those who seemed to have it all (mansion in Hawthorn, vineyard in the country, lovely husband and children at private schools) but who have, in a number of cases, been left with nothing. My assets and I are happily intact - there is something to be said for remaining single.