janey83
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Post by janey83 on Oct 30, 2007 16:06:11 GMT -5
I think it depends. I know that when I was 13/14 and in 8th grade, I certainly wasn't dealing with situations like Dawn & co. I had classmates that smoked and supposedly hooked up with their boyfriends/girlfriends, but that wasn't me. My life was a little more BSC, in the sense that I would pass notes to my friends during class about the guy I crushed on and about how *omg* we talked on the phone for half an hour the night before, or how we all planned to go ice skating and run into our crushes. I spent my allowance money on nail polish (some had sparkles, Mal would have been so jealous) and purses, and I'd go to the movies with my friends on weekends. I never saw a concert until college, never had the urge to sneak out of my house at night. What I'm saying is that I still felt like a kid in middle school, and not full of angst. I was pretty happy/go lucky, not dealing with serious issues. All I'm sayin'.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2007 1:42:28 GMT -5
^Me too. For all of me and my classmates thinking we were 'sophisticated' we still were years behind CD! I skipped class all of two times, and I had a pregnant classmate (that we all shunned- this was eighth grade, after all) but other than that, our biggest concerns were if we had enough money to hit the candy store after school.
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msstock87
Sitting For The Braddocks
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Post by msstock87 on Nov 5, 2007 9:57:29 GMT -5
I didn't have to deal with really any of the situations they had to deal with in middle school. It seemed that it really didn't start until high school all the drama.
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Nov 7, 2007 20:25:19 GMT -5
I dealt with plenty of angst in junior high, but I wasn't in any Cali Diaries situations. I never skipped school. I knew a few kids who smoked, but I didn't know any who drank. There were some, of course -- when I was twelve, a thirteen-year-old girl from my school got so drunk at a party one night that when she was walking home, she fell into a brook and drowned. But I never heard of her until that happened. There weren't even rumours about any kids I knew vaguely doing any kind of drugs. Although there was this one weird, troubled girl with no friends, and one time she got in big trouble for trying to sell someone a bag of baking powder or something and telling them it was cocaine. And I wasn't even aware of any rumours about kids at my junior high having sex -- the rumours I was aware of were about people going to second or third base. Gasp! I did have a gay male friend in junior high, though, and unlike Ducky, he was out of the closet.
Yeah, I didn't get around to my drinking / smoking / doing drugs / skipping school / dating girls / running away / attempting suicide stuff until high school. My junior high life was much more BSC than CD.
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Lauren
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by Lauren on Nov 8, 2007 0:58:50 GMT -5
My junior high experience was pretty much like the BSC. My friends and I did things like go to the movies on weekends or have slumber parties. There was a shooting at the school my brothers went to though when I was in 8th grade.
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Post by greer on Nov 9, 2007 0:21:29 GMT -5
i didn't have friends in middle school, so my life resembled neither bsc nor cd.
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msstock87
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Post by msstock87 on Nov 10, 2007 19:01:23 GMT -5
aww,I'm sorry Greer. I went through a period in elementary school where I didn't have many friends so I know how that goes.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2007 20:45:52 GMT -5
Why is nobody talking about these books? Personally, I loved them. They came out just as I was getting too old for the bsc so they were a way for me to not completely give them up. What did you all think? Same here. I gave up my BSC books looong ago, but I kept all my CDs. I love them, for whatever reason, they're more... intelligent or whatever. I dunno.
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Rie
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Post by Rie on Feb 10, 2008 7:58:15 GMT -5
I just got my first California Diary yesterday. I got the first CD, Dawn.
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sarish
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Post by sarish on Feb 10, 2008 11:35:25 GMT -5
I just got #3, #13, #14, and #15 yesterday. I am thinking about opening them today, maybe if I can ever focus enough and get my homework done!
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Post by luckymojo on Feb 11, 2008 0:36:52 GMT -5
I was shock when the scene of Maggie and the wet t-shirt took place in Dawn I.The way Dawn describe everything,I was like,woah!
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Rie
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Post by Rie on Feb 11, 2008 2:04:50 GMT -5
^Yeah,me too.
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msstock87
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Post by msstock87 on Feb 11, 2008 17:13:50 GMT -5
I was shock when the scene of Maggie and the wet t-shirt took place in Dawn I.The way Dawn describe everything,I was like,woah! That shocked me as well when I first read it when I was 10
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Post by luckymojo on Feb 11, 2008 17:36:48 GMT -5
The guy was so horny!omg!
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Post by greer on Feb 12, 2008 1:49:52 GMT -5
of course he was, he's a teenage boy.
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