tiffany57 wrote:I'm alive, yes!
I know I have been unavailable on the boards for quite sometime and I hope you all do understand- I have been incredibly busy with homework and track. Let me tell you, ninth grade is not as easy as I thought it would!
I am disappointed to announce that I have neglected writing and reading as a whole. With spring break approaching, I plan to catch up on the boards and my reading and writing.
So, how as everyone been? I have missed you all so much!
Hey, welcome back, Tiffany! We missed you! 
Kat is right: high school can be terrible, and you HAVE to trudge through it (well, I suppose if you're one of those guys from The Big Bang Theory, maybe not -- the rest of us are Penny!).
My freshman year of high school was awful. I was trapped at this ghastly boarding school. When you read Catcher in the Rye, pay attention to the early parts, where Holden is describing Pencey Prep -- Ackley and his crummy fingernails, 70-year-old teachers, stone walls and filthy, worn-out wooden floors -- it's a LOT like where I went! And I HAD to go there, because, since my father taught there, my tuition was free! So I get yanked away from what few friends I'd managed to make in the local public school in the two years since we'd moved there (the town's a hellhole, too; think the people in the movie "Deliverance") and dumped into this ugly, gloomy Victorian place that hasn't even gone co-ed yet! And everybody hated my father (he was very mean) and, with some justification, took it out on me. The only good thing was that I didn't have to go back the next year, because the school finally came to their senses and fired my father.
I loathed nearly every minute of it, so I REALLY sympathize with you when you say high school is not so great! I can assure you this, though: you will get through it eventually! And hopefully, you won't end up all sick and twisted like me!! 
