Today we went to the auditorium during last block to hear about this presentation from an organization called Jer's Vision, or something like that. I think the person that came to present was called Jeremy, and he was talking about his life, and how he was bullied. During high school he was the only dark skinned person at his school, so he was pushed around for that. After he finally proved that he was just as good as anyone else by planning this really awesome fall dance, and made some friends, he admitted to all of his friends (he had 6 friends) that he was gay. One of his friends went on the morning announcements and told the whole school about this. After that school had been his nightmare. He told a bunch of stories of how he was bullied and how his mom told his relatives to accept what he is or they won't get any of her christmas cookies anymore (apparently they're delicious), and how one of his relatives, his aunt, just said."I don't want anymore cookies" and then hung up.
Tomorrow is Purple Day! Everyone should where purple in memory of the people who committed suicide because of their race or got bullied in school for some sort of reason (I think). Well I don't have any purple clothing, but I'll try to dig in my closet for some purple-pinkish things to wear.
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