I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
American high school culture was impenetrable to me, and very cliquey: you had the Hispanics, the African Americans, the surfer guys and the goths and the immigrants. The jocks and the surfers got the girls. By the time I'd got to grips with it, I'd graduated.
I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii.
Every high school I went to, I joined in the middle of the year, so sports helped. But you see a lot of bullies when you move to eight states, I'll say that.
In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.
I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the 'sporty good girl.'
High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
In every high school, there is a clique.
There was all of about 30 kids where I went to school; we were all one clique.
In high school I definitely had a clique of friends. And what I loved about it was that we were healthy and good girls.
I moved to Hawaii when I was fourteen. And I was there for a year and then I was just sort of on and off after that, just because I had friends and family there.