The Up Series and Us

I write this post on the first day of the 2008-09 school year. I want to use this moment to remind you that this blog is for the members of the Park School class of '08. It is a place where you are welcome to post anything that strikes your fancy. I think that this may be especially important now that you are all in different school and aren't together anymore.

So far, I've written about 95% of the posts. I did that because I knew that most of you were doing summer type things and that posting to a blog was one of the farthest things from your minds. I posted then, to keep the blog moving forward.

Now, it's your turn. I'll be posting less frequently because I'll be busy with school, so it's your turn to take up the baton.

Here's what I'd really like to see:

The "Up Series" is famous set of documentaries which started in 1964 by following a group of seven year old kids.


Every seven years after that, the filmakers do an update.


Three of the girls, Jackie, Lynn and Sue, age 7.


the same girls, age 14


and again, age 21

The last one they did came out in 2006, when the "kids" turned 49. Cool, huh?

I thought that we could try something like that. Now, I don't mean to keep going until you're 49, but maybe we can keep this going until you get out of high school. All we have to do to make it work is to keep posting.