Kodi Reunions

I don't know how to explain this phenomenon to people who didn't go to Kodi (Kodaikanal International School), but when we meet other people from our high school, it's like we share this instant bond. Maybe it's a boarding school thing? Maybe it's shared nostalgia? Maybe there's a self-selection - or perhaps, more accurately, a parent-selection - bias because a lot of us share similar backgrounds as Indians who grew up all over, or in a very multicultural setting? That's why, I guess, our parents saw fit to send us to an international school on a mountain in Tamil Nadu, India. To gain further "cultural perspective". I don't quite know.

Anyway, what I find even more amazing is how well I've gotten along with people I've met recently who I didn't know (and some I frankly didn't like) in high school.

Whatever our shared camaraderie stems from, it makes for great stories about the good old days, which are oft-repeated, much to the chagrin of my non-Kodi friends who have heard the same stories sooo many times. But, I must say... It's terribly amusing for us Kodi Kids, even when we're hearing the same story for like the hundredth time.

The picture above is from when a bunch of us in New York, who don't normally get together, went out for drinks because Fazle is working here temporarily and he wanted to get together with the New Yorkers he knew from high school. To be honest, I was a little nervous about meeting these people, some of whom I hadn't seen in like eight years, but I'm glad I went.