Class reunion party ideas can be interesting and nostalgic to say the least. Classmates from school travel far and wide over the years, making lifestyle changes and starting families of their own.
Wear name tags with your school picture, and have classmates see how much you have or haven't changed. Cut out photos of old teachers and have a name guessing contest. Have a trivia contest with different facts from your class, including personalities, hometown, memorable events, etc.
Sixties, seventies, and eighties parties make good themes for reunion parties. If the reunion is 15 to 20 years later, dress for that particular decade. Flowered pants, peace sign jewelry, and a good leisure suit will surely bring back memories if you grew up in that era.
Or, if the 80's are more your era, be sure to dress up in your punk wig, baggy sweatshirt, and jelly bracelet. The ideas for class reunions are virtually endless!
Class reunion party ideas can be interesting and nostalgic to say the least. Sixties, seventies, and eighties parties make good themes for reunion parties. The ideas for class reunions are virtually endless!
The drive uphill from Chandigarh into Himachal Pradesh is so familiar that I can close my eyes and remember it as if I was there. Entering Himachal
In school, as part of SUPW (Socially Useful Productive Work), we picked up any trash on the campus and surrounding areas, planted trees to stop soil erosion, taught local village women hygienic ways to cook and keep house, their kids the English alphabet and visited the local sanitarium to cheer up the residents.
Dhaba's and Picnics
The drive gets interesting beyond Parwanoo. Each time I drive up, I remember all the different places we have stopped for picnics over the years. Our family has been quite crazy about picnics. Further along the road is the town of Dharampur, which is in two parts. At Dharampur I, one road turns off towards Kasauli and another towards my old school Lawrence School, Sanawar. Both roads meet below the school at Garkhal. At Dharampur II, a road climbs steeply uphill towards Dagshai. Masses of boarding school students stop with their visiting parents on the weekends. My favorite dish there is lemon chicken, which is absolutely scrumptious and makes for great picnic food.
The direct route to Kasauli is a nice leisurely drive. On the climb from Garkhal to Kasauli, the beautiful old bungalows built in the style of the British Raj, most of them built by the Britishers themselves before the independence of India, grandly come into view. The names of the cottages and bungalows are quaintly old-fashioned.
One exception is my old school, Lawrence School Sanawar where forestation efforts over the past 30 years by students have led to a vast improvement in green-ing the hills and reducing landslides during the rainy season. Some of the towns in Himachal with Army cantonments that still remain heavily forested are: Kasauli, Dagshai, Sabathu, Dharamsala, Solan, Simla and Dalhousie.
Kasauli, Queen of the Hills
Kasauli has two main roads, the Upper Mall and the Lower Mall. Like all cantonment towns, it has an old bazaar where originally only the Indian tradesmen and merchants lived. There is one Himachal Pradesh tourist hotel (Ros Common) and a few private ones (Alasia Hotel), but the best place to stay is The Kasauli Club. The local photo studio is an interesting store to visit as they have a photo-documentary of sorts of Kasauli and Sanawar's history.
There are 2 social seasons in Kasauli. There is a contest for Kasauli King and Queen and a dance party is held at the Kasauli Club as the grand finale. Personally, I avoid visiting Kasauli during the social seasons, especially the one in June.
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