Thursday sharing (childhood)

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Thursday sharing (childhood)
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Thu, 11-29-2007 - 11:50am
Describe one of your typical days in middle school or junior high school.

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Registered: 01-23-2007
Thu, 11-29-2007 - 12:15pm

Middle school is a blur of classes and giggling

 

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Registered: 01-06-2006
Thu, 11-29-2007 - 12:29pm
Hmmmmm... It's sort of a blur for me too. I walked to school most days. I remember breezing through the day academically and spending lunch recess having chicken fights on the football practice field. My favorite part of the day was orchestra. It was some place I felt confident, important, and I really enjoyed the other kids and playing music.
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Registered: 08-17-2005
Thu, 11-29-2007 - 3:03pm
I don't remember much.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 11-29-2007 - 3:14pm

Hmmm...walking down a long dark road in the pre-morning fog to wait for a bus...


Getting mercilessly teased for wearing a bra but having nothing to put in it..and having that bra strap snapped regularly.


Changing clothes in PE class and freaking out that all the hispanic girls had boobs and body hair and hiding in a bathroom stall so no one would see that I didn't!


Crushing on the one guy who never noticed me!


Running one of the various routes to the bus stop everyday because Lori T threatened to kick my butt everyday after school!


Denise

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Registered: 01-23-2007
Thu, 11-29-2007 - 4:16pm
YIKES!

 

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Registered: 01-28-2004
Thu, 11-29-2007 - 4:24pm
Denise........ i am so sorry.
I had similar horror stories and prefer not to share.
But i will say this. Jr High was the worst to deal with growing up. I think the girls get the bad end of the stick. I refused to dress out in PE and copped an attitude with the teacher because i did not dress out. I got suspended several time. Got caught skipping classes and school. Our class made three teachers cry for weeks until two of them quit and one came out of the closet. It was horrible. I certainly do not wish that upon anyone. I know if my mom were around just a little bit more and did not tell the whole world my stories and situations I would have been better off. Hugs to you Denise. and be glad your not there, I know I am.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 11-29-2007 - 8:08pm

I truly HATED middle school..it didn't help that I moved to a whole new town right at the beginning of it so I didn't have ANY friends to start the new school with!

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Registered: 11-04-2004
Thu, 11-29-2007 - 8:14pm

Denise, I am sorry!


but, you know what...my junior high days sounded the same as yours......


walking endless miles to the busstop..getting teased about my new hair cut....


getting teased that my bra was on crooked and it being snapped alot......


trying to dodge someone who was gonna kick my ass also.. her name was veronica, but can't remember her last name right now....


sitting and eating lunch all by myself most days....


once I got a boyfriend in the 8th grade....I started getting popular with other girls..... and then they ended up sticking up for me b/c my boyfriend was cheating on me the whole time.....ugh!!!


High school seemed much better.....I think...LOL

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Registered: 08-29-2003
Thu, 11-29-2007 - 10:56pm

Jr high was grade 7-9 for me.


7th grade was hellish - braces and a hideous pixie haircut (gee...thanks mom). My first fistfight after months of merciless taunting and humiliation from a girl twice my size.

 

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Registered: 03-03-2006
Fri, 11-30-2007 - 12:12pm
Jr high was my come-uppance. For the first time, I was "uncool" and unpopular. Up until then, I'd always been one of the cute ones and had little "boyfriends" in grade school. But suddenly the other girls started growing up and sprouting out (in all the right places) and I did not. By the time I graduated 9th grade I was still only 4'10" and weighed about 98 lbs. Over that summer we were moving and my only prayer was to somehow grow up and not have to start high school flat-chested and 6" shorter than everyone else. Miraculously, that did happen. Anyway, this experience in junior high taught me a lot. It probably changed the whole way I looked at other people and myself and definitely made me rebel against the peer group's ways of "social organizing."

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