The Kitten High School Yearbook Thread

[scifiacid]

Ahhh, high school. Such torturous years. Hm, let me think. I had very much the Farrah Fawcett feathered hair look going on for a few years there. I look back on high school as pretty much the period in my life where I stopped doing all the things I loved. I stopped swimming because I couldn’t get my ass out of bed for the early morning practices (apparently the coach told my mom I had Olympic potential… but obviously I didn’t have the motivation for such things!). I stopped being in the Orchestra. I played first the Violin and then the Bass… which I did neither of in HS. I stopped Softball which I had played ever year since the age of 7 and was on the all star team those last few years. I stopped GOING to school. I remember one 2 week period where I went to classes only 3 of those 10 days.



It wasn’t so much I hated high school I just didn’t know what I liked.



I was on the basketball team. I tried out freshman year but my cousin was killed in the middle of try outs and I just couldn’t muster up an energy after that. I played my sophomore year but junior year I had horrid grades so had to red shirt it. And senior year… ack, I’ll just say I played and leave it at that.



We actually went all the way to NorCal finals that year.



Anyway, HS was not my bag… now college… I was all into college.



But, I did have a few friends. I had this strange place in the HS social stratum. Because the basketball team was the only winning team at the time of all our sports teams so people knew me, but I didn’t hang with the rest of the team in the ‘popular’ area of school. So, people knew me but I hung with my few friends by ourselves. Worked for me.

"Oh, man. I wish I WAS a lesbian. I would get laid every night for the rest of my life." ~ Amber Benson, Lovelines.

[bowieinberlin]

Well, I feel a little bit privileged since I went to one of the best high schools in Alabama, but that ain't sayin' much.



My first two years of high school were wasted because I tried as hard as I could to fit in with people I thought were cool. This was what I refer to as my "club daze." I was in, hmmm, band (saxomaphone... sax-o-ma-phone), judicial club, government club, a local service club, catholic youth group , drama club, AP English, science club, motion picture society, English honor society, junior civitan, and the list goes on and on. I played softball in 9th grade but felt like the whole thing was stupid (especially since my coach was sleeping with all the large-breasted, caked make-up wearing seniors).



From 10th-12th grade I was editor of my high school paper. That was the only constant throughout high school. In 11th grade I started caring less about what people thought and more about my own convictions. I started hanging out at the local radio station (where I'm actually set to intern now, 6 years later), going to shows to hear the music instead of drink, etc.



I drove a '74 orange VW superbeetle and was voted most unique in a write-in campaign (that I did not start). In retrospect, I think I like having that distinction more than most popular or most likely to succeed or whatever. The people I tried so hard to befriend when I was 14, the same people that gave me hell for drinking, finally came full circle by my senior year. I got more calls that year from people asking me to get them bottles of thunderbird than you can imagine.



Music-wise, I was into KMFDM, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, etc. I'm glad I've got all that angst and bitterness worked out.

Edited by: bowieinberlin at: 12/13/02 1:43:55 pm

[La]

high school wasn't too too bad. freshman and sophomore year were uneventful, junior year sucked and senior year rocked.



but what was I like in high school? i was in honors and AP classes, choir, extracurriculars were stage crew, juggling club, german club, peer tutoring, i was a cheerleader, did the musical and variety show, a community service club, sign language club, did model UN for two years



senior year i was notorious for making out with my boyfriend in the hallways, heh



my school didn't have too many cliques except for the popular people, but i was mostly friends with everyone. my hair and fashion wasn't always perfect, but luckily by the time i got to high school, 80s fashion was over and done with, though i had my share of perms and big hair in elementary and middle school



high school wasn't awful, but i don't want to go back!

~La



Our bodies are on loan from chaos; the integrity of our selves is but a fleeting moment between womb and tomb.

~David Gordon White

[Patches]

This has been on my mind quite a bit recently. My school's celebrating it's centennial with a big reunion in May 2003, and while I wasn't in the first graduating class, I was part of the student planning committee for the 75th. Yiikes!! that was 25 years ago! I can't believe I'm this (chronologically) old.



I was one of the strange ones, I liked school: Band, theatre, sports, student council, dances - (yes, that means ABBA and the Bee Gees), guarding, practice was mandatory and classes were not. The students ran the school but let the administration think they were in control (as it should be). Skimming my year book in this past summer finally answered why I never got a date in school - in our play group photo all the girls were wearing skirts or nice jeans with (prissy) shirts and I was in a hockey jersey, overalls and construction boots. D'Oh!!



Though, it will be interesting to see old classmates again - it'll be fun to rub their noses with the fact that I run my own business, own a house and unlike the snooty brown nosers who took fun in putting me down - I actually graduated from university. Hmmm, I think some one put an extra dose of b*tch in my morning coffee.

“Could it be that it was all so simple then? Could time have re-written every line? If we had the chance to do it all again, tell me would we, could we … Memories … misty water coloured memories, of the way we were.” Babs said it so well. Chortle, choke, sniff ..

[zillee]

What a great thread!!

High school that = secondary right? Well it wasn't that long ago 4yrs or so but now i look back and cringe! Well me at school... I was weird just plain odd. All the stupid things that went round in my head tended to come out my mouth thats why I got so badly bullied. In one sense I was trying to be myself but that just ended up with beatings so I tried to be someone else for ages. When I first got to school my mum used to make me wear my hair half up half down and it looked terrible plus I had a stupid fringe that went straight up nothing I could do about it! I joined the choir *smacks head* bad move, I liked Take that (cringe cringe) I wore white socks for a week then realised that that was a crime against humanity (obviously!) I went on to develop crushes on many of my male and female teachers, date lots of boys (denial about my sexuality!) became an artist and a christian in sixth form, wore a lot of checked shirts (euughh!) nearly had a full blown affair with my art teacher, learnt to play guitar, failed french A level because I spent most of it listening to Radiohead on my friends walkman (but at least I can talk about nuclear power in french now!) developed a taste in indie music and consequently became obsessed with Jarvis cocker and stopped taking shit from everyone! High school wasn't a barrel of laughs for me but I did learn not to stop being yourself that just ends up with bad friend choices and misery. Stupid things still come out of my mouth but I am no longer ashamed of them hurrah!

Z

Try it you might like it but you might smudge your lipstick - Jarvis Cocker - your sisters clothes

[slowontheuptake]

High School to me = HELL.

I hated it with a seething passion.

I was odd, spoke my mind and never tried to fit in to a crowd. I skipped constantly only showing up for my art class on most occasions. Dropped out before junior year and went into a independent accelerated learning program where I took all the classes from second year through junior in about three months. I quickly finished up senior year in a seperate program. High GPA. High IQ.

I was more than happy to get it over with and I only wish they had informed me of that option before I wasted two years in abject misery. I just didn't function well in the high school enviroment (can yot tell ).

Hair? Straight and hiding my face. Similar to Tara S4 also with similar amounts of self esteem.

A little overweight, cute and wearing whatever was reasonably clean. Look through your high school yearbooks. I'm the one lurking in the background caught completely unaware and possibly reading a book or drawing something. So sad.

Now I'm depressing myself. I did turn into someone I like quite a bit. I just had to get away from all the God damn teenagers. (No offence to said teenagers )

[VampNo12]

Enjoying reading this thread!



High-school as for clothes was basically ripped jeans, I too was into the fad of wearing swatch watches (I remember wearing 5 on my arm, and ask myself now, why ), and hair that at the time I thought was beautiful, but in retrospect ask again why (ie a bad perm, really I learned my hair wasn't meant to be permed).



I played sports (tennis and softball), and was involved in student government. Freshman year I was basically "going through the motions", (ie not that great of a student), but sophomore year my history teacher really took an interest, and motivated me into being a "true" student (ie AP classes, I found I enjoyed learning).



Basically hung out with a group of people who were labeled as jocks, but I would say my group was more of a mix of "outcasts", "brains", and etc.



Music was a mix from Bon Jovi, Richard Marx (I'm embarrassed enough mentioning this), and other more embarrassing music choices I will keep to myself.



As for high-school on the whole, there were enjoyable moments, made good friends (ie one of best friends is still my best friend to this day), but I wasn't too sad to leave high-shool behind me .

Edited by: VampNo12  at: 12/14/02 3:21:57 am

[Willow Rocks]

Well i only left Uk high school in septemeber (we leave at 16) and well my dress was the school uniform of black pants, shirt n tie, though i always wore a dress blouse and my tie so it was like 1cm long, and instead of wearing black school shoes i wore my white adidas's and always had on a faded demine jacket (that sadly passed away in the summer with a whole in the armpit )



And i actully liked high school, i had lots of friends who ranged from the popular to the mid popular (ok ill admit i was really a bitch and was one of those people who was in groups that thought were better than what peopled called the "freaks" but now im a mosher but i still hang out with my old mates who are all trendiesa and charvas and call ppl like me!)



In high school i was a dancer, we were pretty much treated like celebrities at school if we walked down the corridor everyone move out the way for use including most teachers we could sit in the reception during lesson time and have a good gossip and not once would we be asked to move and go to our lessons.



My hair was long and always different colours, but this summer ive had most of it chopped of, well davina macall style.



but one thing i hated bout high school was my high school i live in a deprived area, nortorious for our drug problem, my town has been called the worst place for drugs in the north, so we had the crappest teachers employed who may have been good when they were employed but the school brings everyone down and now when anyone asks you, who knows the area where u went and u say Blyth, u get the druggie remarks and what kinda education would u with soners for teachers. Although a new £15million community college/school opened up this year so lets hope things change! and i have no idea how this got so ot!

[Insane Oasis]

I'm sort of still in high school, and it feels like I have a looooooonng way to go before I'm out, but lessee:

My hair is cut really shortish, guy like, and blue! cant forget the blue, my happiness factor, I dress in comfertable baggy clothes in dark colors, partly to hide my femminity, and partly cause I can't wear tight clothes, and have a variety of footwear. But anyway, I hang out with the social "freaks," I guess you could call them. umm, my grades are pretty good, and I'm one of those kids who have people shouting at them for answers in the middle of tests. *shrugs*I listen to all types of music, but i can't stand the really heavy rap, and the realy hard metal. I'm athletic, I play basket ball, baseball, and foot ball, though not for the school, cause I don't handle competition very well, and the fact that we have to wear girly clothes on game days. *shudders* I'm lucky to go to a school that has a very nice beach just a stone throw away, or a grenade, cause you know, our police have a tendency to practice those kind of things during school hours. *shrugs* I'm all into anime and Greek mythology, and this has proved to be of tremendous help in my history class. *shyly scuffs toes* and I'm shy, so I'll just go now...

99 pages of fic on the board, 99 pages of fic, you take some smut, and post it up....err.. 100 pages of fic on the board?

Edited by: Insane Oasis at: 12/14/02 10:24:56 pm

[thrilledbymaclay]

Well, as far as labels go, I'd probably fit into an angrygirl/nerd/smartass category. I skipped alot, but went to classes I enjoyed and felt were reasonably profitable... Favorites were Drama and English, also took Choir as a credit class... I guess I always felt the need to illustrate how my school rejected the concept of original thought by trying to start philosophical debates in class... It was generally just my friends and I . Fun with Catholic education.



Hair was generally around my shoulders and played with alot (It was totally my security blanket. I recently cut it off to my chin... Super liberating!!! I love it. ). Clothes wise, I ranged from year to year... Grade nine was sporty and casual , Ten was gothy and artsy, eleven was "Hey, I've decided to become a born-again" preppy, and twelve was dirty artsy hippy/skate/I don't care (my favorite era, lol). I was very oriented towards discovering different spiritualities and spiritual tools... Kissed some girls, kissed some boys... Never really dated though, or had any real romantic relationships. I was outwardly uncaring and inwardly insecure. I was really hungry to know who and what I was, as most are at that age. I think I maybe thought about it too much though and missed out on the actual discovery experiences. I wasn't always super-angsty... I had my days, but I was almost always the voice of reason, talker-outer of, and big word user for my friends, some of whom I'm still very close with...



Musically, I enjoyed mostly indie/alt girl music, some pop/r & b and Fleetwood Mac-type stuff (There's the geek influence, lol.) I always found myself defending pop music... I got so tired of people complaining about it without taking into consideration that fact that, as far as it's listeners go, it's a valid musical style, just as the rap/metal sounds that were very popular at the time worked for others. [The Devil's Advocate role manisfested itself in the Buffyverse by my constant defending of Dawn, lol. I think that most who complain about her whinyness don't have older siblings to remind them of how they were at that age . Plus, if I found out I was made of mystical energy and that my life was, in some rights, a total lie, I'd freak out all the time too. Who wouldn't?]



Well, thanks for the chance to relive my non-glory days

"Sadistic crap legitimized by florid prose... Tell me you're not a fan."

-Firefly, Episode 9

Heh- Sound familiar?

[Zippy]

I was bullied a lot in school & really hated going, but I decided if I wanted to get out of the tiny village where I lived I would have to get on with it. So even though most of the time I was inwardly miserable or hiding in the computer room, I actually got on well at school.



I was classed as a top set student and I excelled at science and maths.



During my second year, my PE teacher discovered my flare for playing hockey, I was one of the few students who when playing in defence actually stayed there. This lead to playing for the school team then county try outs, then playing for the county.



I used to help of with sound and lighting for the school productions & once was talked in to appearing in the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. The drama teacher was one of the few people in the school who got my sense of humour so I was talked into playing one of the workmen.



Hair, mm it was really long back then, I never really knew what to do with my hair so I just kept growing it. Music wise well I listened to the same sort of stuff that I listen to today only now I am more open about my love for certain pop singers.



Willow Rocks your a mosher and you hang out with charvas, is that allowed? I heard that Blyth was getting better for the drugs and what not. Anyho, another North eastern kitty, wow. I'm down in Mackem land if you ever fancy a chat, my email addy is in the old profile.

"I'm going to give you one hour & I mean one hour. Not five days" David Dickinson

[urnofosiris]

thrilledbymaclay, agreed about Dawn. Just wanted you to know you are not alone, but now very quickly back on topic.



A very interesting topic, I wish kitties would post some pics to go along with the descriptions I have been reading, especially Warduke. I will do it as soon as I have reinstalled my scanner, hee but I don't want to be the only one. Anyway, I am still not too clear on how the foreign, especially the US school systems work, not even after having watched all those high school series. I will give a very brief rundown on the Dutch one (as it was in my time) before I share my woes of old.



2 years of kindergarten age 4-6

6 years of junior school age 6-12

4 to 6 years of high school depending on the level age 12-19

Followed by either work, university or other forms of professional training etc.



I went to a very good and pleasant high school from 1983-1991. The kind I went to is considered the highest level, which sounds snotty but that is just the way it is, it is meant as a preparation for university. I had a good time and that is part of the reason why it took me 8 years instead of 6, hee, well and puberty was another reason. I hated that for reasons I won't get into now.



Appearance wise I have changed a LOT since then and not just by growing older. When I think back on how I looked in my first 3 years I can only say: DORK. I wore uncool matching completely boring clothes. I had long straight hair and eventhough I felt fat I was thin and utterly unathletic. The one hobby that I had was chess and we did not have a chess club in my school though I helped trying to start one which died a quick death. I was uncomfortable going out eventhough I already knew and loved beer and I pretty much avoided social situations as much as possible. Despite all that I had nice friends and was not the class nerd. I must say that I must have had a nice class the first 3 years as I cannot remember anyone being picked upon.



Then I flunked 3rd grade and for 2 whole days I was stuck in a horrible class filled with preppy stuck up self proclaimed popular trendy snotnoses and a few girls who actually were my friends and one that I actually fell in love with later. I quickly changed class and got stuck in one with a high level of nerds and basically everyone was nice again. Hee. That is when my looks changed and I don't think for the better. I cut my hair short and wore it in some punkish style, but without colors or piercings and I started wearing some strange clothes that I cannot accurately describe, a bit hippy-ish perhaps, but without the colors again. I became as politically aware as I have ever been, and am not anymore, very left oriented, complete with posters, books and buttons, and my one and only ever walk in a demonstration against the placement of nuclear weapons in our country.



A grade later my looks began to 'normalize' and in 4th grade I became part of a group of friends who were cool but unassuming, not stuck up like the 'popular' group. I went out more, I drank more (I never smoked anything though, well 2 leetle drafts from a regular cigarette when I was drunk once, but never again since then), I skipped classes a whole of a lot more and I flunked 5th grade because of that. I barely managed to graduate in 6th grade with the very minimum of grades required, 2 subjects I actually flunked but my 9 for English (we got grades from 1 - 10, 10 being the best) gave me the extra credit I needed to get my diploma.



My taste in music was influenced by my friends, one of the groups I was part of in my sort of punky/lefty/hippy-ish days were into the Culture Club and U2 and such, so I liked them as well, or so I said. I still prefer ABBA over them any day. The tapes I still have from the 80's contain everything. I basically love almost all 80's music. Oh and lastly, I have been in love with my one and only soulmate 3 times during highschool. Three different girls, but each time I was sure that that was my true love. Heh heh. I also had many crushes on the side.



Well that turned out a lot longer than it sounded in my head, but then again, 8 years is a long time.

Edited by: DrG at: 12/15/02 3:31:09 am

[DestruktorMel]

Oh boy, high school. Lets see...at first, it was a really hard adjustment for me. I went to the same school from pre-school all the way up to 8th grade. I was so used to being around the same people, that it was hard for me to get out there and make friends. But, eventually, I made a pretty good group of friends.



As for clothes and stuff, I never really cared about that. T-shirts, sweatshirts, and jeans were basically my uniform. And hair was always straight and down. Never once deviated from that. I do now though. I guess as I got older, I just got more comfortable with myself. I bet if those people saw some of the things I wear now...hehe.



Music...back then, it was all about country. Growing up, it was all my mom and dad played, so I never really got to hear anything else. And then, one day, my best friend played Metallica. Now, I pretty much like everything.



I was in all the academic groups we had. National Honor Society and California Scholarship Federation. Did the prayer group thing at lunch, and somehow manged to get elected as student body treasurer my senior year, which was quite fun. I ran with four of my friends, and we all won our offices. I also managed the lights and sound during our school concerts. Hehe my main reason for doing that was getting out of classes a few times a year for all day rehearsals



I wanted to be a teacher back then, so I would stay after school a lot and help out some of my favorites. I'd grade papers, help them organize files, basically whatever it is they needed help with. Of course, by doing this people thought I was a kiss ass, but I didn't mind.



Lets see...what else...in my actual yearbook, pretty much everyone willed me their knees lol. I missed a lot of school my senior year because of them, so that's pretty much what I was known for. In fact, whenever I run into someone from my class, that's always the first thing they ask me.



I think I'm pretty much the same person now, a whole four years later. The only difference that I can see, is that I have a lot more confidence in myself. Which, is a very good thing .

[snippygal]

My senior year, my mom and I moved to a small town in Utah. I had bad spikey hair and people made fun of me because I wore ties and drove a Bug and had to work in a flour mill. They didn't allow dancing there, which was completely foreign to me since I was from Chicago. I met a girl with a weird name, but her father was a preacher and didn't like me. Probably because of my Big-City Attitude. But I convinced him to drop the ban on dancing by reciting an old Byrds song and we got to have a Senior Prom and we danced to Kenny Loggins. It really was almost paradise.



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"He was always a rather stupidly optimistic man. I mean, I'm afraid it came as a great shock to him when he died." - Mrs. White

[tommo]

Someone should make a film of that story, snippygal. Especially with the Kenny Loggins bit.



And I love Clue; it's one of my all time favourite movies.

I want you tonight. Are you in the mood? ~ Birmingham, Alabama.

[slowontheuptake]

{snort} That took me way too long to catch on(hence my name).

I love heartwarming stories about the power of dance, "Clue" is one of my favorite movies too.

[snippygal]

"I hated her . . . so . . . much . . .



I-It-It--flame--flames . . . on the side of my face . . .



breathing . . . breathle--heaving breaths . . .heaving--"

"He was always a rather stupidly optimistic man. I mean, I'm afraid it came as a great shock to him when he died." - Mrs. White

[Studpuppy]

highschool?..Hmmmm. wasn't that long ago only 4 years. The first two years really sucked. Trying to figure it out if I was gay and if there was something wrong with me, not to mention I was the fat kid.I was into sports played soccer made the states as a freshman and was cool only because I was the starting goalie and had Srs watching my back. I was always the classclown joking around style wasn't my strong point. Then when I was a JR in highschool I lost like 50 lbs became apart of the popular crowd known as " the preps" although a very shallow group of people I must say they were the best friends a closet girl needed. Came out that year and they were all very supportive and over protective ( still are). By SR year I was known as the gay chick, the token gay girl in the school if you will. I didn't mind, its funny how all you need in a small town highschool is one gay kid to come out and others will watch from the shadows and come to you with their secret and thank you. Made me feel all warm and tingly to have younger students, that I didn't even know, come to me and say thank you for something that I wasn't even aware I did or was doing. While that didn't bother me what did and still in college bothers me, is people saying I don't look like a lesbian. Could someone please tell me exactly what a lesbian looks like? Style then became a strong point..LOL...All I wore for year were Earth Tones, very plain..lol In all I was very lucky I had the support of a lot of teachers and friends to make Highschool fun. I liked it a lot, or well, the last two years.



Studpuppy

[Tulipp]

Snipp, I am LMAO again. At first I was all "oh, Snipp wears a tie" and wondering what color bug you drove, and then I was all "ooh, I get it!" And then I had a little moment where I was thinking about Kevin Bacon doing gymnastics, but that kind of grossed me out so I started thinking about Sarah Jessica Parker instead. And then I got grossed out again so I started thinking about something else. Can't remember what.

"And I'm eating this banana. Lunchtime be damned!" -- Willow in "Doppelgangland

[Penrose Orleans]

Well, I'm out of high school, but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it! My picture makes me look so matronly... I'm wearing my Speech and Debate suit, my hair's up, the glasses...



My big high school activity was Odyssey of the Mind (anyone know it? Please? In Arizona there's not much general knowledge of it, but I loved it!), but I played basketball and sang in the choir... I even taught Sunday School for 3 years, which (for a lesbian athiest) was a *great* time (sigh)!



I went to such a small school (graduating class of 21) that we were all friends, and more like family than anything else. The school was really disciplined, so I had the uniform- the plaid skirt- the works! Good times... -Nora

"Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic."

-Albert Camus

[Pipsqueak]

Hey Penrose, I did Odyssey of the Mind too! A bunch of my drama-class friends put together a team during my freshman year of high school. We did this cute little play -- actually it was more like a musical, we all sang to Disney movie tunes -- about The Iliad and the discovery of DNA. Heh heh. It was a lot of fun, I had a blast.



Also, I couldn't help but notice your avatar. Nice to see a fellow Commodore fan! I'm a grad student at Vandy, hopefully getting my degree this spring.

Albatross!

[Penrose Orleans]

We did a musical about the Odyssey and Abe Lincoln, to the tunes of West Side Story and 'I Will Survive'... those were the days... we even got to World with that one, though we never were a very good set-building team... OM was my favorite part of high school... just spending all the practices doing nothng... that was the life... -Nora

"Fear prophets...and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them." -Umberto Eco

[Scout]

Hmm…shall I share this - okay. I went to a Baptist school from third grade until I graduated high school. Bible class every day and chapel once a week, in addition to my parents taking me to church on Sunday where I helped them teach Sunday school.



The pros were that the people at my school were nice and they sincerely cared about me, and since I grew up in such a structured environment, I was never exposed to drugs and alcohol at a vulnerable age. I had my share of friends, including some teachers who became good friends, but in my high school days I got about as wild as Tara. hehe



I liked art, and I played several sports including basketball and softball. I was never a major brain but I made it into the American Christian Honor Society in my senior year, which made my folks happy.



The cons were that my high school influences kind of carried over into adulthood, so I’m still not much of a partier or a drinker (much to the frustration of my present-day friends). Also, I had to spend quite a few years deprogramming myself of all the bad messages my teachers had ingrained into my mind about homosexuality and going to hell because of how I felt about women. Accepting myself has meant going against my family’s beliefs and the beliefs of everyone who I respected growing up. It hasn’t been easy questioning so much of what I was raised to believe, but I’m finally comfortable with who I am.



High school had some good times and some good memories, but honestly, the present is a better fit.

[dreiser]

i don't remember high school and strangely enough, i don't have a diploma from it either. i only have the word of my family and random people i've run into since moving back to my home town that i even went. rather scary that i can't recall anything but then again... once i fell asleep in the tub and when i woke up i had no idea who i was.



and no, nic doesn't do drugs. except heart pills.



nic

[Rane018]

you kittens crack me up

"We're forgetting about the troll.
Let's pay attention to the troll." Tara, Triangle

[tommo]

I'm afraid I was a total geek at school. I was badly bullied in my first year there, aged 11 and I fear that it's the residue of that that has been responsible for my bitterness today.



However, I soon got in with a crowd of "nice" girls, who adopted me and made me perform for them. They fed me on raisins and bits of leftover egg sandwiches and I never sat alone on the school bus again.



I loved school. Perhaps that's why I went into teaching; I dunno. However, I was a total swot and worked hard, not understanding that 15 year olds are supposed to take drugs and drink and smoke and pretend to be hard. I didn't start smoking until I was 17 and at Sixth Form College which was considered cool because it was in the city centre of Manchester.



I do have a photograph of me at school. But only one person has possession of it. And she's under a death threat if she distributes.



I wish I had exciting stories to tell about school, but I'm afraid the most exciting thing I ever did was write "merde" in my French book. I ended up cleaning desks all lunchtime for my sins and was never naughty again...

"You think I smell like a mermaid?"
"No, I think it's haddock...or carp...Do us a favour dear Nan and put your glove back on."
~ Titty Saunders and Nancy Boy French

[Wytchi Grrl]

Does my subject title sum it up for u? If not I'll explain



I went to a diabolical senior school/high school where the teachers were bullies, the biggest thing I learnt in high school was that it doesn't matter how old you are, it doesn't mean you know best-Yes i'm a bitter former bullied one lol I laugh now at the resources I managed to use to entertain myself through those years. Lets just say I was one very funny quick witted girl, What happened to that? hehe. Ofcourse the kids bullied too(with those sort of role models, who can blame them??) I remember sitting at the front of the class room with my girlfriend having calculaters chucked at our heads, and laughing my head off, when that sort of thing happened everyday it sort of became amusing. It pushed u into a little world with the people who were your friends

and I have to admit being grateful for that. I'm still good friends with those now women and that just doesn't happen with most high school friendships.



I think the funniest part of high school came from a rumour started about me and my friend being Gay, it was all over school and yes even the teachers talked about it. The funny bit is that they made it up to be mean and they got the wrong friend!

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Tara pushed down Willows pants with her feet, colliding with silken legs, a sensation that made her shudder-VIXEN-Shamelessly promoting my own fic.

[drlloyd11]

I thought in thread of looking back, I would add a post of looking ahead



On the left is my son AKA "The littlest Kitten" on the right my Daughter.
His first day of high school, hers of Kindergarten.
Here's to hoping for good memories

[Pavlov'sBell]

Well, since I'm a Senior, guess I can post this

I had a notebook taken away from me by a teacher, and it was open, and it had smutty smut written on it.

I was fucking terrified she was gonna glance over and start reading it.

[drlloyd11]

Pavlov's Bell...now you are just teasing if you don't tell us the smutty smut!