As a kid who lives in America, I obviously go to school. And, as an Asian, I am constantly tormented there. Well, not at my current school, because the kids there don't openly despise me. But, then again, I'm Asian, and have no social skills whatsoever, so how can I tell? Anyways, back on topic. I think my experience at my old school is a great way to illustrate what a typical school day for an Asian kid is like. Like most kids, I get up sleepily early in the morning and lug myself onto my mom's car. I don't take the bus, because I'm too lazy to walk to the bus stop and because my mom is overprotective. My actual life at school is really dominated by this statement. I'm weird. I'll be the first to admit that. Well not the first. I'm looking at you, Josh Molli, and you, Mrs. Tremmel (My old principal). Yeah, my principal says I'm weird. It's true, but, when your principal says that to you and your parents faces, you know you have a problem. Which is true. I was constantly made fun of until 5th grade, when I managed to be just a little less weird. I still didn't have any friends, but people stopped insulting me. To my face, at least. Now, I've got amazing hearing, which is because I need to be able hear is someone is insulting me behind my back. Have you ever heard the saying, have the strength to say it to my face. Well, the truth with me is that it doesn't matter, because I'm so afraid of getting in trouble (Because of my parents) that I won't actually do anything about it. So yeah. Another thing about being Asian in school is that your parents are so paranoid about your grades that the Asian grade chart is the following.
A- or lower: Unthinkable
A: Low
A+: Normal
A+ & Extra Credit & Perfect scores on out of school tests & Many non-sports related extracurricular: Good
I think Kev Jumba's videos on youtube.com do a great job explaining what it's like to be an Asian teenager
A final thing about being Asian in school is that you suck at sports. As I've mentioned in an earlier, I can't play a sport to save my laptop, which is more important to me than my life. I mean that literally. When I was watching my brother, who is actually coordinated, play soccer, a ball actually hit and broke my laptop. Amazing, right. I always get hit by balls, even when I'm in the audience. I'm dead serious. It's happened many times. And don't even get me started on actually playing sports. To sum up that whole section, which I would probably have to censor more of than the Chinese government's coverage of the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony (See, Asian Humor. Completely lame.) if I wrote it out, let me just say that I curse the person who came up with having PE in school.
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