dWhen I came to Canada, I want to a public school for 2 years everyone was nice except for one group
for students they would always say mean things like “You have dirty blood because of the color of my
skin.” and one day a teacher overheard them and told the principle, and they called my parents and told
them the group of students got suspended and my mom insisted that I go to a different school. The next
year I went to a catholic school. At first the students were all nice but in the end none of them wanted
to be my friends, they all just used me and made fun of me. recess I would always be alone. One day a
student from my class started talking about me behind my back and everyone started to hate me, and I
did not understand why. At the end of the year, we got a new student, and everyone liked her in the end
they ended up telling her all these rumors about me and she hated me too. I kept all these things to
myself, which was the biggest mistake I ever made. In the new school year, I got one of my favorite
teachers and he was very understanding. Because I have trouble with reading and writing but I always
enjoyed them. Just when I thought that people in my class would allow me to enjoy my year, they
started making fun of how I would dress by calling me “princess pussy” when I would wear a dress. One
day I sat where I usually sit on the bus and one of the older kids decided to start to bother me and
started to ask me to move even though the bus was already full so I said that it was the only seat left
and that we could share the seat. and her friends started to make fun of me. The next day I overheard
them tell one of their classmates to agree with them when they told the teacher that I said the “n word”
even though I hadn't said it and they are even payed her. Later that day their teacher came and pulled
me out of class and asked me why I called his student the “n word” when I told him that I hadn't he
called them out and they still said that I said the “n word” even the girl that they payed came and
agreed with them so the teach told me that the next time it happed I would be in big trouble. In the
middle of the school year a student came back to the school, and I did not want anything to do with him
because I assumed that he would bully me. This was also another big mistake I did not trust anyone, and
I was clearly not willing to trust anyone. The next year I got the same teacher who believed that I said
the “n word” and the whole class was the people who bullied me. No one wanted to sit beside me, even
the new students did not want to sit beside me. All the girls sat beside the teachers at desk and all the
guys sat in groups of four around the class and always sat by the door no one really cared about me
other than when they were bullying me. One day I came to school with new braids, and everyone called
me spider head and were very mean to me that day later in the year girl came up to me and started
calling me names and threating me so the teach told the principal and he said to stay away from her, so I
stayed on the tarmac when she was in the grass and in the grass when she was on the tarmac. So, she
ran up to me and slapped me in front of a teacher, so she sent me in to talk with the principal and he
made me stay in said for recess when. Even though I was being hit I still did not stand up for myself. I
was always changing just to please someone who did not care about me I was deeply depressed, and I
did not even know I kept to myself and did not want to interact with other students in the last 2 years of
elementary school I mad friends and I was treated nicely. But most importantly I learned to be myself
and to not let others change me. I am beautiful no matter what I should take care of myself both
physically and mentally. I still have trouble with trusting others, but I still try to make good friends and
make sure that they are loyal friends.