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The other day at school we held our annual school wide assembly to present all the class awards and faculty awards. I was sitting in the bleachers, not thinking that I would win anything, when I heard my name announced, for a special foreign language award... for LATINITAS!!!!!  The teacher presenting it made a speech about my writing, but honestly, I cant remember anything of what she said because I was shocked and nervous, having…

Just recently, I have started dating a boy that I had talked to for awhile, and built a friendship with. Thanks to my inner shyness and introvertedness, I was hesitant to pursue the relationship. On top of that, I couldn't stop (and still can't) thinking about what couples do these days, and what it seems like girls are expected to do...and that scared me.

From observing my friends relationships, and from hearing about what couples did last weekend, I was intimidated into not even…

Although this isnt following the prompt for today, I just had to share it! This week I have been going to driving school, in a class of about 10 girls, and a male teacher, in his 60s i would guess. Prior to going, I had heard we was very anti-feminist. He even had my grandmother and mother for driving school, and these are not new complaints!

Anyway, with a class full of girls, nearly all comments go in the direction of "you ladies like this and that" and always referencing our sex.…

For me, looking through catalogs for my favorite stores, and then checking out what the mannequins are wearing is really exciting! It's fun to see the styles and put some outfits together in your head, then go and hunt for them in the stores. But... when you find that perfect outfit that you saw on the model and try it on...and it looks TERRIBLE...it's just sad.

This has definitely happened to me, and I'm sure countless other girls. At first, it is really hard to let go of the hype of…