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Nothing important, just blabbering about what I hate about my school.

My. School. Is. Driving. Me. CRAZY!

First the teacher calls me over to her office and asks me a million times why I chose not to go to my dad's anymore. (He's called her months ago.....I'll spare the details) Then she started blabbing on about how I act at school. I know it's a little wrong for me to do stuff like being an hour late, handing in white papers or occasionally skipping a class on purpose because I hate the school rules. (The teachers expect us to arrive at seven-thirty, we have 5 exams every day or more, we "learn" super-advanced stuff that Americans probably won't read until college age or even older.....etc. And besides, if your way of thinking is slightly different from others, teachers will consider you weird. I miss the education in Canada where I used to live. There, students learn to know themselves better. Here, students study to get perfect grades so they can get a perfect job so their parents will be pleased and that they would earn piles of money and live an "average, normal, nothing-to-worry-about" life.)

She's also mad at me because I've given up on talking to most of the people in class. All the girls in class care about is all sorts of dumb things and most of the boys (except my friend in class, he is very polite) just make pervy jokes at every stupid comment the teachers make. The teachers try to act funny and end up saying a bunch of silly things. While the other people in my class laugh like idiots, I just can't find any of those dumb jokes hilarious at all.

Lately every class in our school is supposed to make a music video. We are divided into groups, and I DIDN'T MANAGE TO FIND ONE. All my good friends are in other classes, too bad. And I only have the chance to meet them on Fridays - school club day, that is. I'm in the school newspaper-making club and nearly all my real friends at school I've made in this club.

Turns out EVERY SINGLE video involves the SAME STORY: cool guy and pretty girl fall in love, break up, cry, come back together again, blah blah blah........all the boy and girl main characters are dressed in the same style with the same personality. For instance all the girls have long hair dyed brown, school uniform skirt, popular, athletic, cute, eager to fall in love, heartbroken after breaking up, ETC.

Even all the girls singing the songs have the same yucky voice!

My classmates seem to find some rather "mean" parts in the video funny......so while everyone squeals like idiots, I just sit there and organize my books with no expression whatsoever. No wonder people think I'm weird. (Sighs)

I can't become "popular" or even be a "regular student" in a school where all teachers care about is grades and all students care about is eating and having "fun". Not me. Students in my class will look at a news on TV about a war and say, "Wow!" "Awesome!' or for girls, "How scary!" But I would seriously "think about stuff" and wonder why us humans always have to argue and fight each other over all sorts of stuff - religion, race, political issues....you name it.

People in my class absolutely love laughing at dirty jokes, I just think they're plain stupid. Whenever a classmate walks up to me, they ask why I'm so.....well.....oh, you know what I mean.

So now in class I avoid talking to people to save trouble. I hate it when people ask me all sorts of stupid questions. Teachers except for perhaps the reasonable ones like my geography teacher, art teacher and English teacher think I'm a hopeless rule-breaker and weird student. The boys think I have no sense of humor. And the girls either think I'm an idiot or just plain scary at times because I always do everything except for newspaper club stuff alone and because I glare at them when they laugh at dumb jokes too much. (It's pretty annoying, trust me. Like, when we had a new teacher and our class teacher mentioned this person, the most popular girl in my class went, "Oooooh!! I know! He's the one with the jiggly butt!" and everyone went giggle giggle laugh laugh until I wanted to kick something. Hard. So I gave her this LOOOOOONG glare in return because I think she's being disrespectful. I've seen the teacher she was talking about, and that teacher is pretty nice in my opinion. And believe it or not, our gym teacher paired me and that very same girl in a group in volleyball. Great. Just great.

Here's a long list about that girl's characteristics and mine compared:

The Girl:
1. Athletic
2. "Pretty"
3. Long brown hair
4. Average grades
5. Popular
6. Boys like her a lot
7. Interests: Random stuff, silly jokes, clothes, yummy food, cellphones, boys
8. Favorite TV stuff: Spongebob and such
9. The teachers like her because although her grades "can improve more" she is "very sociable"....unlike a certain someone else!
10. She follows school rules even if they are ridiculous
11. Likes Taiwanese pop songs about love and breaking up
12. Likes laughing at the stupidest randomest things

Kuo-Yi:
1. Terrible at sports but likes shooting hoops
2. Average-looking
3. Short black hair
4. Average grades, once top of the class but not anymore
5. Friends are all in other classes
6. Seemingly overly cold-faced and breaks too many rules
7. Interests: Writing, drawing, doujinshi / manga creating, studying languages, and lots more
8. Favorite TV stuff: Tetsuwan Atomu 2003, Kaseifu no Mita, Studio Ghibli films, Black Jack 21
9. 80% of the teachers think I'm hopeless
10. I only strictly follow school rules if they are not ridiculous
11. Likes Korean and Japanese indie music, Vocaloid and Joe Hisaishi's music for Studio Ghibli, and all sorts of relaxing music that can increase creativity.
12. Likes thinking about the true meaning of life and wonders why there are so many dumb grownups

Well, no wonder it's so hard for us to so much as talk to each other, it's like we're from different worlds. Same goes for most of the other girls in my class. While they talk about new cellphones all I think of is how the abandoned old phones will just wreck the enviroment faster.

THIS ISN'T EVEN ALL OF THE REASONS WHY IT'S SO HARD FOR ME TO COMMUNICATE WITH PEOPLE IN CLASS.

Oh, well. Nothing important, just thought I'd type all this trash up before I go crazy. Hey, sudden though. If the teacher thinks she's so good with this stuff, then why the heck does she argue with her husband all the time? Now, that's something someone ought to tell her. In truth, even the students in my class don't think too much of her either. She is too picky.

*Sympathy pat* It's okay. School is extrmely boring and a living hell over here. (Maybe it's because I'm not interested in making friends.) Anyways, there are only a few nice kids in my school, and I rarely ever see them etheir. (The girls and boys over here are etheir perverted, or talk about sex and crap. But not all. Some of them are pretty nice, but are mostly otakus.) Don't worry, just keep doing good in school and ignore what those kids say. Huh, I wonder why the BJ 2004 series isn't on your list.

Because I haven't watched it yet.

That sounds like torture; it must really really really suck!
I have to agree that most girls are WAY too concerned with stupid things like clothes and boyfriends and other crap like that. And their SO PETTY!! It's really the main reason I'm homeschooled (to get away from idiots).
And I REALLY hate how those teachers don't like you just because you're not "sociable"! My friend, Ashley, has kinda that sane problem, where people hate her just because she doesn't really talk much since she is SHY, not b*tch like they like to call her!
I also find that teachers ALWAYS love the "popular" and "slutty-dressing" girls for some reason, and I've never been able to figure it out. Like when I was in 7th and 8th grade, I was always being nice to other students and the teachers, but yet I was still treated like trash and ignored by almost everyine but Ashley, Jessica, Andy (a guy friend), and Harvinder (now an ex-friend for calling me a b*tch, slut, tracer, "stuffer", etc.). Everyone but my friends just forgot MY birthday and completely ignored me, and even though the teachers gave out treats to the "favorites" and "populars", Ashley, Andy and I never got any. I know the whole birthday thing is petty, but thkse teachers were serious jerks.
(Hope you don't mind my ranting real quick.) In 7th grade, I had promised everyone in my himeroom I would get them all donuts, and the EXACT donut they asked for. But Ashley told me later on that some of the idiots/populars were saying "Yeah right, she'll just mess it up!" "I bet she won't go through with it." "LOL, she doesn't even have that kind of money."(she was trying to say I'm POOR.)
Well, I DID end up doing it, I got EVERYTHING RIGHT, and I HAD ENOUGH MONEY. But guess what? No one gave a shiz. They just said "Thank you" to be "polite". This almost made me crack out of my "nice girl" shell and go all effing RAGE on them! Ungrateful idiots! They never did anything nice back, they just kept ignoring me. It took me a MONTH to even make up the money to buy them those, hoping they would finally like me, but NOPE! What a WASTE!
That's all my ranting for now.. I don't really care if anyone else thinks this is petty. It was one of the events that really changed how I think of so many people (in mostly my generation): self centered, inconciderate, brainless idiots.

Oh. For me, the Black Jack TV (2004) was the first series I ever watched of Black Jack.

There are a lot of sites where you can watch them. (Youtube doesn't have them anymore. You can only find a few in JP. They have pretty much all of them in Latino and Portugese, ect. )

Another reason why teachers hate me is because I even use my "coldface mode" on them. They can go babbling about how lousy I am for half an hour and I just sit there like nothing's happened, or give them a glare.

Ugh. You'll get this stuff everywhere no matter where you're going to school. I went to a private school (no not a catholic school or a religious school) and this kind of vapid behavior existed in droves despite that our curriculum demanded critical thinking. Kids would think critically and empathetically for 8 hours, and then go off and talk about stupid crap (at this time it was Myspace).

Just hang in there, school only lasts for a limited time.

Also keep in mind that we have a thread dedicated to rants and complaints which you can let all your frustrations out freely

So, Myspace is stupid? I thought that that site was more safe than facebook. (My brother used to have one a long time ago back when facebook didn't exist.)

btw, I don't have a Myspace, or facebook, ect. Myspace is okay, but facebook can lead to problems, and gossip.

Social Media. Oh my!

Keep in mind this was over 10 years ago when Myspace was new and THE THING, everyone was talking about it and you had just as much bullying on it as you do on FB.

I never had an account with either.

Myspace was exactly the Facebook of 10 years ago, with same abuses. The only difference is that it wasn't as much exacerbate because there weren't as many users. And because it is now rather dead; if Facebook hadn't replaced it we would have Myspace drama instead of Facebook drama

Anyway, the problem is not with the websites themselves, it's what people do with them. Forums can be pretty abusive too, I think many people here have experienced forums that have issues with bad behaviors, while here there is very little problems in comparisons.