Hannah, Ron just what exactly happened? If I may ask that is.
Hannah nice to hear from you again. Ok Hannah if you would like Rain, Rose, and a few others would be more than willing to offer any advise, or help in your dealings with School.

If we lived closer, I'm sure my wife and her sister would help you get some clothes to help you fit in better... I'm sorry to hear people are talking about you like that.

On the other hand, I'm extremely glad to hear from you again. ^_^ Hopefully things get better for you.

Hannah I think we can update your style, and still keep you, and your dad comfortable. Trust me you don't have to dress like the other girls to fit in better.

not commenting about the cheerleaders.

hannah, welcome back. you sound like you're pretty cool already, don't try being like everyone else. i wasn't exactly better for it when i did. people tend to make unfair assumptions about people based on what they look like, what's different about them, or who their friends are, or were. they shopuld really try getting to know you before acting dumb.

I never said we'd dress her like the other girls... There are styles out there which would be conservative enough to be comfortable for her, without marking her quite so blatantly as being an outsider.

Hannah, aside from the fact that she wears pants (which nobody is forcing you to do), did my wife dress badly? Were the styles of shirts she wore really that tacky? (For the record, Lex tends to like "casual dress"-style clothes; button-up shirts, usually of a nicer material, and if there is a V-cut at all, it's a higher cut with no cleavage showing... She's very self-conscious about stuff like that.)

As for cheerleaders... Not all cheerleaders are brainless dopes, and the drills they go through aren't as easy as they make it look... Just like Ron tends to make monster-hunting look easy (sometimes), it's their job to make their acrobatic antics look easy... Some of them get a big head over how easily they do it, or they get a big head about their appearance, or whatever... That, or some of them just happen to be very physically capable idiots.

you'd have to wear the uniform, though. it's part of the job, so to speak.

Hi Miss Hannah.

It is good to hearfrom you again.

About the nickname, the next time they call you it just tell them that it is Miss Hick to them. when they figure out it doesn't bother you they will quit giving you a hard time and you will gain alot of respect in thier eyes.

You've lived a sheltered life, Soph. In my experience, that was never the case... The bratlings who harassed me through jr. high and HS, when they realized they could no longer push my buttons one way, went out of their way to find another.

We can always hope that such isn't the case for Hannah...

Yay! Hannah's back! I've missed ya kiddo

duamerthrax wrote:you'd have to wear the uniform, though. it's part of the job, so to speak.

Hi . . . James right?

If it's a uniform, it's okay 'cause I'm spo'sta be wearin' it. Besides, it still covers more than most of the girl's regular clothes.

Hi Soph and Josh

If I could handle my cousins teasin' me I can handle it from anybody in the school. I only got mad at Christine when she started bein' mean ta Michelle.

Hi Bert!

Thanks for the party!

Hannah

PS: Not that I would become a cheerleader . . . being a vampire hunter would be much better . . . though I don't think Pa will let me.

got it in one, hannah.

nothing's really wrong with being a cheerleader. ever see the movie "buffy the vampire slayer"? maybe you could be both.

Oh, GOD!! It figures that YOU'D suggest that, J!

Hannah, don't even bother with the cheerleaders. They're usually too absorbed in their own little worlds to give a damn about anyone else. Life isn't some stupid teen drama, after all. And just as a hint, never try discussing the finer points of cheerleaders with any guys. Ask Ei first, she's not too testosterone-laden to function.

Eh, not all cheerleaders are like that, but I do know that enough of them are that way to generate the stereotype... My high school had two very different cheerleaders, one was a dwarf, and the other a guy, and they were both decent individuals. The rest of our cheerleaders weren't self-absorbed so much as they were vapid and dense...

Thank you, GS.
Hannah, just keep proving why they shouldn't mess with you or your friends, and they'll stop.

KonThaak wrote:You've lived a sheltered life, Soph. In my experience, that was never the case... The bratlings who harassed me through jr. high and HS, when they realized they could no longer push my buttons one way, went out of their way to find another.

We can always hope that such isn't the case for Hannah...

If it doesn't work she could always punch them in the nose. Not that I am condoning violence.

Something to remember, "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down"

That isn't really true in American Schools, Kei.

I know it is in many Japanese schools though.

Uncle Kolya says 'hi' and welcomes you back to school.

Since 2004, the first day of school (1 September) always passes slowly for me, and probably for most Russians.

Miss Hannah, it is good to see you back online again.

I personally had all sorts of hell in middle-school and high school. I -was- the outsider, even though I dressed like them. I was smarter than most of them but had been in a much crappier education system. On top of that I had issues that I hadn't resolved or dealt with, namely my mother's passing, and then on top of that the abuse of my c**t of a step mother.

Then when I got around to my 8th grade year I started taking martial arts really heavily, and first started exploring my other gifts and talents. Toward the middle or later part of my Freshman year I wound up confronting half the varsity football team as someone made a comment that was really screwed up, and well.. I had had enough. I've never heard a high-school hallway go so dead quiet so quick.

Anyway, after that, they pretty much left me alone, and well, after that I actually started having a few more friends. So standing up for yourself, while being your own person or individual is usually a pretty good way to go, though its not the easiest. It probably won't get easier for a while, and I'm almost certain some kind of confrontation will come about, but with a strong mind and will you can probably solve it in a non-violent kind of way.

I do hope that is the case.

But anyway, it sounds like things are smoothing out right now so that's probably a good thing. Take care. Watch out for what friends you do have.

Yeah, hopefully you have experiences more like Razor's and less like mine. My big experience from standing up for myself ended up with my nose getting shattered and Gabe being "born".

Yeah, well, i'm none to proud of my middle-school, and early high-school years. I was the kid who made other kids lives hell. I was miserable and angry, and wanted everyone else to be just the same. Of course, I was also quite the nerd as well, but for everyones safety, I was never called on it.

This week I saw somethin' really amazin'. This kid, Peter, well I don't know what he did ta tick off all those football players, but they came after him. But this Peter guy was too quick . . . he was somersaulting over guard rails, jumping in and out of windows, he even took a few steps off a wall and jump back over tha head of one.

Hannah goes to school with Jackie Chan.

Or he could be a free-runner, or just a guy that got into gymnastics at a young age, or even some skater/bmx punk.