Watch your mouth!

A Guide to Surviving High School

I don't think people realize how easy it is to say something that offends someone else.
While it might not seem offensive to one person it could be highly offense to another because everyone takes things in a different way. We all don't think and react in the same way!

Someone just has to open their mouth and blurt out something in a heated moment. A certain mesh of vowels and consonants that create a certain sound that hits a certain nerve that makes me want to hit a certain area that you CERTAINLY don't want me to hit.

Let's break it apart.

Has anyone ever gotten into an argument with you? No, not even an argument but a simple disagreement?
Then that certain person runs off and tells others a bunch of white lies and secrets to other people in hopes that now those people will "take his/her" side against you?

Of course this has happened to you ! You go to school don't you?

Sometimes things surprise me. I'm a very excitable person but because of that I'm also very anxious. I get an adrenaline rush just thinking about going to New York city but then have a sudden anxiety attack thinking about getting hit by a flying trolley from Mars. I'm not lying.... I fall asleep to the SciFi channel every once in a while.
I could tell you first hand people will surprise you in the most unusual ways.

One day you find out by your crushes friend that the feeling might be mutual and then another day you find out it's some stupid prank. I've seen this way too many times to count on ten fingers.

 Take this for example,

I was terribly ill when swine flu came out. A friend and I caught the bug while we were on a trip to the big apple. (I didn't die. At least not that I know of.)
I was out for an entire week and when I came back I was pregnant with twins, run over by a car, and moved to New Jersey. SURPRISE! News to me....

These things. These times in which people prowl on stupid rumors and feed off of them adding more and more until you have a girl with snakes as hair and farts you can turn into cherry blossoms.

I can't tell you how many times I've had some stupid lie spread around my high school that was so bizarre that I just couldn't help but laugh.
And let me tell you, I was not the student that everyone looked up to with the Gucci bags and bad tans. No, I was pasty white Amber with the frizzy hair and comic book obsession. There was no reason for their to be rumors about me because no one should've cared. I guess that's what living in a small town does.


Just this year I found out I was a
1. drug addict
2. jealous maniac
3. emotionally distressed suicidal pig (can't make this stuff up)
4. botched boob job
5. shop lifter
6. STD holder (Worded just like that. Makes it sound like something you'd put on a drivers license doesn't it? Squeeze it on right next to organ donor)


I'm appalled! My boob job doesn't look that bad! Kidding guys....jesus.


So for all of new and shinny high schools (or middle schoolers!) just know that you can survive it. Just throw your head back and laugh because in all honesty it's bizarre.

As soon as Junior year rolls around people stop paying attention and the bullies start drowning out of that "OH LOOK AT ME AHHHHH PUBERTY RAGE" stage and start worrying about keeping their grades for college.

I was never one to say "oh it gets better" but it really does.
If I could say that then trust me you can too.
Good luck and have fun!