So here we are, I've been horrible at blogging to my promises (as always) but today is my last official day of high school, it is bittersweet, it's only 3rd period and I broke down in tears already. I'm going to be an adult in 10 days, I'm gonna be a high school graduate in 8. I'm growing up, and I don't know if I am ready to be an adult, I love being a kid, I don't ever want to grow up (They denied my application to be a lost boy, as I am a girl...) I did not like High School but the experiences have made me stronger and the people I made have truly made a difference in my life. I may not have had your typical high school experience with boyfriends and parties, but I couldn't be more proud of the experiences I have had, and I just want to say thank you to each and every single person reading this, without your support, who knows where I would be right now. Thank you all, much love,
Sarah Van Orden
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Cyberbullying (Warning: Curse and Offensive Words ahead)
Hey everyone,
Normally, I want this blog to be full of happy things, but what happened needs to be out there, and writing helps me to move on. So Friday into Saturday, was one of the worst times I was ever cyberbullied, and I know that if you are on my personal Facebook, you've only heard one thing about it, the worst thing they could call me, a "Lopsided Retarded Bitch" but there is way more to this story.
I was relaxing with my parents, watching TV before heading to bed, and all of the sudden, my phone started freaking out and lighting up. I ignored it until around 10:45 when we decided it was time to go to bed. They first commented, mentioning their friend on my selfie with my new phone "Is this a joke?" and immediately "idk ;/" so my friends thought they were talking about my appearance and came to my defense, thank you again to those who did, and then the people started getting defensive and started calling my friends horrible names like whore, cunt, trashbag. I came in and I started getting mad, I'm fine if you hurt me and are mean to me but the second you bring my friends into it, I get mad. So then as I was defending my friends I was told to kill myself, I defended them and got back "i didn't ask for a speech bitch I asked for your funeral date and time" then an innocent person who was defending me got told "Go Roll ya wheelchair in traffic. You ugly retarded whore" that same person was told "God hates you and your deformed friends. Kill yourself before your disease does you albino bitch" I got called a "sobber mouth retarded bitch" for defending my friends.
I was also called a "slow ass retarded cripple bitch" "stupid monkey looking bitch" and then my friends were told it was their fault this happened because they "assumed" and tried to help me.
Needless to say, I was devestated by these people, I cried, and stayed up until 2am trying to report and delete everything they said mean, even the screenshots they posted were deleted and reported, I blocked and reported them and I made my own instagram private, I hope this never happens to anyone else ever again. You see those movies about cyberbullying, but its not like that, for most incidents its not someone you know, its a complete stranger.
~ Sarah
Normally, I want this blog to be full of happy things, but what happened needs to be out there, and writing helps me to move on. So Friday into Saturday, was one of the worst times I was ever cyberbullied, and I know that if you are on my personal Facebook, you've only heard one thing about it, the worst thing they could call me, a "Lopsided Retarded Bitch" but there is way more to this story.
I was relaxing with my parents, watching TV before heading to bed, and all of the sudden, my phone started freaking out and lighting up. I ignored it until around 10:45 when we decided it was time to go to bed. They first commented, mentioning their friend on my selfie with my new phone "Is this a joke?" and immediately "idk ;/" so my friends thought they were talking about my appearance and came to my defense, thank you again to those who did, and then the people started getting defensive and started calling my friends horrible names like whore, cunt, trashbag. I came in and I started getting mad, I'm fine if you hurt me and are mean to me but the second you bring my friends into it, I get mad. So then as I was defending my friends I was told to kill myself, I defended them and got back "i didn't ask for a speech bitch I asked for your funeral date and time" then an innocent person who was defending me got told "Go Roll ya wheelchair in traffic. You ugly retarded whore" that same person was told "God hates you and your deformed friends. Kill yourself before your disease does you albino bitch" I got called a "sobber mouth retarded bitch" for defending my friends.
I was also called a "slow ass retarded cripple bitch" "stupid monkey looking bitch" and then my friends were told it was their fault this happened because they "assumed" and tried to help me.
Needless to say, I was devestated by these people, I cried, and stayed up until 2am trying to report and delete everything they said mean, even the screenshots they posted were deleted and reported, I blocked and reported them and I made my own instagram private, I hope this never happens to anyone else ever again. You see those movies about cyberbullying, but its not like that, for most incidents its not someone you know, its a complete stranger.
~ Sarah
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Happy Birthday Celebrate the Little Moments!!
Happy 2nd birthday to this blog!!!! It's on Thursday and I will be so busy preparing for prom the next day that I thought I would post the birthday post early!!
Monday, April 6, 2015
Senior Year
Hello Lovely Readers,
Have I really not blogged since the Fourth of July? Wow! Well if the title does not make it obvious, Senior Year has kept me busy!
I will be graduating in little under 2 months and my 18th birthday is 2 months from today. It's funny, but I think the past couple months have matured me in ways that I don't even understand, I'm still the same person, but as I sit in the library and write this post with a friend nearby, I hear a tenth grader complaining to her teacher about how difficult her term paper is, and I sit there remembering that was me 2 short years ago, I was writing a paper on Harry Potter vs. Christianity, and now I sit here thinking "It's only difficult because you made it that way" and I sit here listening to some of the immaturity that one hears in a high school setting and it irritates me, how can people be so thankless? We have an opportunity that most people don't, you should relish in that, not complain. Instead of being friends with most people in my grade, I have 2 or 3 (depending on the day) really good friends in my grade, 2 really good friends who are Juniors (Yes, Emily D. you are one of them) 1 really good friend who is a Sophomore, and no Freshman.
A lot of people think this is a sad fact, but, I will NOT miss high school, I won't miss the people who are in my class, I won't miss drama, however I will miss teachers, I think I get along with teachers better than I get along with people my age.
In the fall hopefully I will be attending Penn State World campus to major in Social Work, I love helping people, I love kids, so why don't I combine the two and create the best job for me. Now, on the flip side, my Senior Prom is this Friday (!!!!!!!!!!!) and I thought I would show everyone my dress (so far, picking it up on Tuesday) and what I'm thinking for my hair.
And now it's nearing the end of my class period, so soon I will have to go to lunch. I am going to try to blog at least once a week from here until the beginning of my first semester of college. I'll talk to you all next week!
Much Love,
Sarah
Have I really not blogged since the Fourth of July? Wow! Well if the title does not make it obvious, Senior Year has kept me busy!
I will be graduating in little under 2 months and my 18th birthday is 2 months from today. It's funny, but I think the past couple months have matured me in ways that I don't even understand, I'm still the same person, but as I sit in the library and write this post with a friend nearby, I hear a tenth grader complaining to her teacher about how difficult her term paper is, and I sit there remembering that was me 2 short years ago, I was writing a paper on Harry Potter vs. Christianity, and now I sit here thinking "It's only difficult because you made it that way" and I sit here listening to some of the immaturity that one hears in a high school setting and it irritates me, how can people be so thankless? We have an opportunity that most people don't, you should relish in that, not complain. Instead of being friends with most people in my grade, I have 2 or 3 (depending on the day) really good friends in my grade, 2 really good friends who are Juniors (Yes, Emily D. you are one of them) 1 really good friend who is a Sophomore, and no Freshman.
A lot of people think this is a sad fact, but, I will NOT miss high school, I won't miss the people who are in my class, I won't miss drama, however I will miss teachers, I think I get along with teachers better than I get along with people my age.
In the fall hopefully I will be attending Penn State World campus to major in Social Work, I love helping people, I love kids, so why don't I combine the two and create the best job for me. Now, on the flip side, my Senior Prom is this Friday (!!!!!!!!!!!) and I thought I would show everyone my dress (so far, picking it up on Tuesday) and what I'm thinking for my hair.
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| Yet again I designed my dress and got it custom made for me |
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| Hair, Maisie Williams is from a brilliant TV show (Game of Thrones) and I LOVE her hair! |
Much Love,
Sarah
Friday, July 4, 2014
I LOVE America!
Hello Dear Readers!
So Happy 4th for my American Readers and if you are not American, happy Friday! So if you can't tell by the name, I LOVE my country and have a huge sense of pride in it! So here are pictues of me and my family going to some of the greatest places in this country
So Happy 4th for my American Readers and if you are not American, happy Friday! So if you can't tell by the name, I LOVE my country and have a huge sense of pride in it! So here are pictues of me and my family going to some of the greatest places in this country
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| When I was 12, my family and I went on a HUGE trip out west, we went to Arches National Park |
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| Zion National Park |
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| The Grand Canyon! |
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| Bryce Canyon (Not pictured, Mesa Verde) |
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| When I was 13, we went to Jamestown! |
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| Yorktown! |
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| And Williamsburg! |
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| I tried colonial hot cocoa, it was just melted semisweet chocolate, gross! |
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| Goofing off at Jamestown Fort |
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| When I was 14, we went Northwest! To Yellowstone! |
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| And got soaked by a geyser that only went off every couple of years, later in the trip we got recognized as "that family that smelled like Sulfur!" |
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| Grand Tetons! |
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| Absolutely gorgeous |
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| Even right in my backyard! I grew up going to Gettysburg! |
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| Valley Forge! |
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| If you don't know, Valley Forge is where the revolutionary American soldiers lived before crossing the Delaware |
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| At age 16 my family and I went to Antietam, the bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place there, thousands died in one day! |
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| Harper's Ferry (Took this picture in John Brown's wax museum, which was very shady) |
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| The White house with (L-R) My dad, my older brother (Tommy), my brother in law (Brandon), my older sister (Amanda), my mom and me (Not pictured) my Aunt Marcie and Uncle Gary. |
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| In October, I spoke at the FDA in Silver Springs Maryland |
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| These are in the harbor in Baltimore |
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| And on Wednesday, I went to Fort McHenry. |
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| I guess these ladies were volunteers, I would not want to be them! (ironically, this is my dream job..) |
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| Inside a prisoner cell |
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| From the Fort Wall |
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| Francis Scott Key Bridge! Crosses right over where he was when he started writing our national anthem |
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| Original poetry by Francis Scott Key |
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| What the telescope he looked through looked like |
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| His desk supplies |
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| Portable desk |
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| Here I am at the fort (Sideways) |
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| Right after this was taken, a cannon went off and I literally jumped into my mom's arms |
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| Merchant Marines ship!!
I have seen a lot of this country, 43 of the states actually! I'm proud to be an American and be free
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