It is summer! reminisce on your school days!

[Cat_loves_Dragon]

So it is summer! Kids are off school and for them that is AWESOME! What are your best and worst summer memories?

I think mine may each have to due with commencing out as gay as my sophomore year (2004) I had NO FRIENDS AT ALL due to this so yeah... that summer sucked ass. My best have been Every year after summer mattered. So my senior year of HS and every year after, as all my friends (athat had actually been assholes) left 2 years before I got out of school I was left with the few that stood by me and turned out to be real life long friends. I get to visit all 3 (yeah only 3) each summer as my work is still school oriented.

So yeah just a request for massive nostalgia.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I was all too happy to not see any of the people in high school over summer. I didn't really like any of them.

All that changed when the fire nation attacked I left high-school. Then I had fun over summer with amigos.

 

[Stasisesque]

Between the ages of 9 and 17 I went to PGL (an activity holiday company for children, nicknamed "Parents Get Lost", though that wasn't its real name) every summer. Best week of the year, I made a ton of new friends - none of whom I ever kept in contact with, but it didn't matter, we were summertime best friends - and took part in all sorts of activities a girl from South London wouldn't have been able to experience otherwise. All of this with no "real" grown ups. All the adults were in their twenties, and joined in with all of the activities though they still somehow managed to keep us in check.

But I was lucky anyway, my best friends lived in the same street as me, and we didn't attend the same secondary school so I was able to have two lives, one in and one outside of school. Summer holidays were pretty brilliant for me growing up.

My worst summer, however, was pretty depressing and I don't want to bring the thread down. So I'll just do what I've done my whole life and concentrate only on the good. And PGL was the best thing to happen to me.

 

[hazabaza1]

Between the ages of 9 and 17 I went to PGL (an activity holiday company for children, nicknamed "Parents Get Lost", though that wasn't its real name) every summer. Best week of the year, I made a ton of new friends - none of whom I ever kept in contact with, but it didn't matter, we were summertime best friends - and took part in all sorts of activities a girl from South London wouldn't have been able to experience otherwise. All of this with no "real" grown ups. All the adults were in their twenties, and joined in with all of the activities though they still somehow managed to keep us in check.

But I was lucky anyway, my best friends lived in the same street as me, and we didn't attend the same secondary school so I was able to have two lives, one in and one outside of school. Summer holidays were pretty brilliant for me growing up.

My worst summer, however, was pretty depressing and I don't want to bring the thread down. So I'll just do what I've done my whole life and concentrate only on the good. And PGL was the best thing to happen to me.

I went to PGL once! Fun times, fun times.

But really other than that and visiting family I never did much in summer. Just sit in my house and chill really.

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

Ahhh high school. I had a graduating class of about 750 other students and lets just say I don't miss a single one of those ass holes

As for good summer memories, when I was young I had 2 cousins (brothers) who were and still are my best friends. Due to their parent's work schedule they would stay the night at our grandma's one evening and she would watch them the next morning. I started going too and we basically sat in her basement and played video games for 24 hours straight. It was back in the good old days of the Gamecube/ps2/xbox too. I still have my old memory card with over a 1,000 of Super Smash Brothers Melee racked up on it. We also went to a friend's house on the same street and would play Halo 2 for hours. There were 5 of us total, 4 players and the loser rotates out, just like it was meant to be

Now I work at my college over the summer and its still pretty fun, more fun than working 40 hours a week at McDonald's anyway. I like most of the people I work with, including my bosses so its mostly like hanging out while taking care of all the tech related crap that can't be done during the fall semesters. Broken 30 pound CRT monitors everywhere...

 

[Shinsei-J]

Oh summer, way to much surfing, skating, wind surfing, dangerous illegal rock clumbing, fishing, swimming, fighting, breaking limbs and adventuring, all with a permanent sun burn. Too bad it's now winter here in Australia.

Well anyway, here's a fun story. At the start of one summer just a few days after school goes out my family and I go to the beach together. Happy times as we roll up in our car get out smell the sea breeze and, OH SHIT! Little ol' me has fallen off the jetty while fighting with my brother, down some rocks to cut my knee open to the cap. One emergency later I'm told the date I'm to come back to the hospital to get the stitches out and my cast off. Later that summer, half an hour before my appointment to get my leg tended to I fall off my skateboard while doing a handstand on it down a hill, reopening the whole thing and starting the process again.
Surprisingly fun summer.

 

[Angie7F]

Summer reminds me of partying half the week, partying twice a day if necessary, throwing up, spraining ankles and having midnight fights with my BF over stupid stuff.

Now I avoid the sunlight like a vampire because I dont want to get sunburn, and I will never pull an overnighter.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Summer 2003 was probably my worst summer but some of the best shit happened anyway; like how my cousin and I beat Halo on Legendary, went to Ozzfest, met Cradle of Filth (we stole the hotel bible and had them sign it: that fucker has it though). It sucked though because I was a child of divorce with an abrasive (at the time) step-dad and a manipulative bio-dad: Enjoyed a bit of time in a court room because custody...I think my girlfriend at the time was in Japan too as part of a study abroad program.

Summer 2006 was when I lost my virginity. (TMI alert by the way) It was in a tent and rocks tried to insert themselves into my back...stupid camping thing.

uuuugh...I'm 25 so I'm just old enough (or just have a bad enough memory) to have forgotten a lot of the bad of high school (ie: I want to spend a week in the past).

 

[roushutsu]

As a kid, we went on vacations to Florida and New York to visit family. In high school and college, I worked full time.

Yeah, nothing interesting here. Sorry.

 

[SckizoBoy]

my worst is easy. i got sunstroke on holiday in Dundee. which if you know the UK and its weather at all is like some kind of negative miracle.

Sunstroke... Dundee... *does not compute* Negative miracle indeed... '

...

Man I'd like to be able to reminisce about my uni days, never mind my school days, I'm that old! DX

 

[King of Wei]

Summers have always been uneventful 'cause I normally just hang out at home.

I did participate in the Race for Sight back in April '08 though and got a first place trophy out of it. Didn't get first in the entire race, just my age group but it's still a cool lookin' trophy.

Favorite thing about that race was that I forgot to tell my parents about it the night before. Was planning on telling them in the morning but they were still asleep and the taxi got there super early. Got back home around 9am and everyone was still asleep so I just kept quiet and let them stumble onto the trophy by themselves, their reactions were kinda funny. One of those "secret life" moments.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Between the ages of 9 and 17 I went to PGL (an activity holiday company for children, nicknamed "Parents Get Lost", though that wasn't its real name) every summer. Best week of the year, I made a ton of new friends - none of whom I ever kept in contact with, but it didn't matter, we were summertime best friends - and took part in all sorts of activities a girl from South London wouldn't have been able to experience otherwise. All of this with no "real" grown ups. All the adults were in their twenties, and joined in with all of the activities though they still somehow managed to keep us in check.

But I was lucky anyway, my best friends lived in the same street as me, and we didn't attend the same secondary school so I was able to have two lives, one in and one outside of school. Summer holidays were pretty brilliant for me growing up.

My worst summer, however, was pretty depressing and I don't want to bring the thread down. So I'll just do what I've done my whole life and concentrate only on the good. And PGL was the best thing to happen to me.

PGL ran a watersports holiday that my school took us on in the south of France (god I sound posh. I went to a state school, honest), it was awesome. All the guys working there were students so they just pissed about loads.

My summers were pretty meh until I got into my mid teens- I'm not very good at managing a social life, having a girlfriend to drag me out did a lot for me. My best summer was probably last year, in between sixth form and university. Lots of pissing around, festival going, alcohol and very weird experiences. I was convinced to have sex in a forest, in the rain, which isn't something I'm dying to repeat to be honest.

 

[Ren_Li]

Suh-mer? What is this thing, and when will it occur for me?

Seriously though... I'm afraid I don't really have any positive summer memories (or school age memories) beyond "yay sun". I've always loved to sun- too bad I live in a country where we don't seem to get consistently sunny days very often any more. I do remember them happening more often when I was younger- I think we've had about a week of decent sun all year...