Finishing high school is the end of a chapter in many students' lives. Friends separate and head off to different colleges all over the country. To mark the end of high school and the beginning of college, you should throw a goodbye party for your friends.
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Instructions
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Plan to have something small. A goodbye party should not involve inviting your entire high school class. It should be more intimate, so that everyone has a chance to say goodbye to each other.
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Pick a house to have the goodbye party at. Since you want to keep the mood informal and personal, steer away from restaurants and throw a house party instead.
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Send out E-vites. E-vites are the ideal way to invite your high school friends to a goodbye party. Use the E-vites website to organize your guest list and keep track of responses (see Resources below).
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Keep the menu simple. A few snacks and drinks are all that is really needed at a high school goodbye party.
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Set up the house with a goodbye theme in place. Keep the theme in your guests' minds by putting up bon voyage decorations.
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Encourage everyone to bring a notebook. This can be a cheap, college ruled book. Then at the party, encourage everyone to write, or draw something special in each other's notebooks. As lame as it may seem at the time, it will be a source of incredibly nostalgia in ten years. Also, steer clear of phrases like "I can't believe it's over already" and "Don't ever change." If you have a party of your good friends, then you should be able to write something more meaningful to each other than you would in the back of a yearbook.
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Stock up on tissues. A high school goodbye party is likely to be very sad. Friends may start to cry at the end of it when the realization that they are going to be apart hits them.
Tips & Warnings
The timing of your goodbye party is likely to depend on when everyone is leaving for college. A lot of schools start towards the end of August, so you may want to hold it at the beginning of the month.
Remember to put out high school mementos during your goodbye party. Bring out the old yearbooks, prom programs, etc.
