evenstar3 said:

...this one time, at band camp

Spookymuffin said:

you're so terribly original.

i have been to band camp, though

evenstar3 said:

Spookymuffin said:

evenstar3 said:

Seriously - I find it so weird that Americans have things like that. It seems so....strange.

Spookymuffin said:

What? We had to learn the music before performances started in the school year.

evenstar3 said:

I guess we English students are far too lazy to devote outside-of-school time to something vaguely worthwhile.

Spookymuffin said:

You don't have school bands/orchestras/etc. there? Weird.

evenstar3 said:

we do - we have three absolutely enormous orchestras alongside string quartets and all that nonsense....we just practice and play during school time only is all.

Spookymuffin said:

We didn't get enough time in class to learn all we needed to, I guess

evenstar3 said:

No, you folk just do things differently....

You're like the Amish to our society. Backwards people that deserve our pity.

The day my best friend was killed while 4 of us were out riding together, that rocked me to my core and the ripples caused huge trauma and life changes that still affect me to this day.
Some are positive things and others are hugely destructive and still cause very negative feelings and moments in my life.

Being a victim of paedophilia.

my Mum passing away... nothing has been the same since and either have I

- Suffering from the blues, the worst kind, eight years ago. It took me four years to come through...

- Having someone very closed to me being raped by the first boy I ever kissed.

- Learning to write

- Losing my amazing, Jewish grandmother in 1998

- World war II (it did not ruin me, but affected my direct family)

- My parents having a divorce after 33 years of awful marriage

- Meeting Francisco and deciding to try to recover from a very huge relationcrisis

Being a victim of paedophilia.

That deserves a huge

getting out of a unhealthy 10 year relationship. for the better i've learned to be stronger and not take any shit off of anybody. i've learned to love myself. my boys are better for it as they don't have to be around all that negativity. the bad side is that it's (especially men) harder for me to trust. I don't forget the little negative things that people do. I have a tendency to do away with people if I feel like they're toxic or seem to block a path to my happiness. I have a low tolerence for redemption after the first fuckup.

Cloudbuster said:

Being a victim of paedophilia.

brownsugar said:

I have been trying to seperate/divorce my man of 9 years for the last 3 months and its the hardest thing esp since I am 5 months pregnant and we have a 5 year old son together. It's not I can do bad myself its more like I can do better by myself.