@Monkey:
None of this will matter, I know this is really hard to perceive when in the middle of it. High School seems like heaven and earth to both people who love and hate it, but it ain't shit. It gets washed away like so much nothing.
I actually don't feel High-School is as great as it's being interpreted in movies and such. Especially with the kind of community I'm in. All I can do is just go with the flow.
@Monkey:
And with that language prospenity you sound like the kind of person little wormy townies like this girl are not. A person with a future. Even in this global economy a polyglot (at age 16/17 no less!) has a good outlook. You'll be in some guilded skyscraper conducting translations for some bigwig business while this chick hooks up with a fat has been in a Budapest dive bar.
Hell most people whine about learning Hungarian and that one's more than out of the way for you lol.I guess maybe I'm disagreeing with others here, and I don't really want us to bog you down with a bunch of contradictory advice, but focus on the future, be really proud of yourself and your talents. Look how tiny and pathetic these people really are. Only a year left.
I actually thought about it too. I mean learning languages being useful and rare (aside from English). Also about me translating from or to Hungarian. I guess I'm lucky to have the ability and desire to know other languages. No one who I know is like this, and to be honest, I like it. Makes me feel proud of myself to know that I learn languages because I love them not because of good grades.
@Monkey:
Maybe this is a weird idea but what if you talked back to her in Swedish or something no one else would understand? I mean if you have to talk back, like even doing it calmly it might just fuck with her head lol.
I keep telling Chrissie that if she gets in a spat when she's over here in the states to just let loose on the person in furious Greek and that will be all it takes (Greek has a higher power level than most English accents).
Haha, I thought about that too, except with English, because most of my class knows nothing more than curse-words in English. And they use it. Everyday. Bah, perhaps Swedish would be the best choice since no one else studies it. I think I'm even alone in my whole school.
I'll think of some simple sentences and try to learn their pronounciation. Wow, all this actually sounds fun. Even if I never get the chance to try it, I'll at least learn some new words in Swedish with it.
@Dryish:
Nolus, I have been following this conversation from the sidelines not wanting to butt in because the situation seems to be handled pretty well by guys whom I consider to be more capable and experienced in talking to others about such matters, but I feel like saying a few things right now. First of all, I agree with Zephos on what you should do and think about all this, even though what Holy suggested there also has its good sides. You basically have two real choices here, of which ignoring the pitiable people who cannot handle differences due to some circumstances unknown to us for another year is by far the easier thing for you to do at this point. That one girl especially, she's a small human being with a really narrow mind for the subjective matters of this life. Don't pay her that much attention, it will only hurt you more.
The thing is, I'm well aware that she's very stupid and my mom said it so many times that she just envies my intelligence, but that's not how I see it. She (that girl) thinks that she's above me in every sense. Worst of all she thinks she's a better human-being and I'm just a little bug who deserve to be stepped on. Why I know this? Because she constantly makes me feel it. I'm proud enough to care but fear too much to truly speak up for myself. And I'm sensitive enough for it to be able to hurt me.
@Dryish:
Please, do yourself a favour and ask why do you let her obviously wrong ideas hurt yourself? What is you is you, and it is entirely up to you what you want to look like, what garbs you choose to wear and what you think of yourself. No one else than you has the right to tell you what is right for you. No one else knows that but you. Allow yourself the freedom to express yourself without caring for what other ignorant, intolerant and flat-out mean people think, and take pride in who you are. There is nothing wrong with you, and you know that as well as we do. Sometimes it might be hard to believe due to other opinions gaining more visibility, but you still know it deep inside. Don't be afraid to trust that small feeling. Don't even stop to consider pushing your own self away for the sake of pandering to other peoples tastes. That gets you nowhere.
I don't know why she can hurt me. I know I'm better, smarter and accomplished more, teachers tell me I'm like a perfect student, some of my classmates call me "dictionary" because whenever they don't know a word in English, they ask me and I give the answer. I like myself, I like how I look and I like how smart I am and can do things that impress other people I truly care about.
Yet, when I stupid girl talks down on me, I feel dominated. I just don't know why.
Although I can think of something… I don't have that many friends nor I have a boyfriend. I don't know how she'd know this, but I think she sees this big "flaw" in me. By her view of course. So maybe because I couldn't yet find a "true" friend, I feel I lack something that she doesn't? It's hard to tell, really.
Or she just hates how I'm the only girl in class who wears no make-up and hang out with the boys.