Lessons learnt

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Ketanya Stephens


I  was living in west Philadelphia  for most of my life with my father ...I moved back to Tortola when I was about 13. I was happy to move back to be with my mother and sister. When I came I was supposed to be placed in form 3 but they put me back because I came from out of the Caribbean. As soon as I started attending school people would make fun of me because of my accent and how I spoke . They would ask me "why you yanking this tola ". They would also tell me that I talk that way because I feel I'm all that just  because I came from the states. They bullied me to the point where I changed the way I spoke just to fit in with everyone . After that they started bullying me about being in a lower grade than them. saying I was stupid and I failed even though I didn't. I used to get upset and argue with the other girls at school, but after a while I just ignored them. When they realized they couldn't bother me at school anymore they took it to social media and started throwing shade on Facebook, posting things about me and tagging me in things. It would never be just one person it was always like a group of females trying to verbally or physically attack me at once, just because I was different and I didn't suck up to them . After I blocked almost all of them they would go on other people's Facebook to threaten me and make up reasons to want to fight me. People would make fun of my skin color and say that i am too dark and call me names but after a while I got over it .


My advice to young females coming into high school is : forget about friends because the same people you get yourself into trouble for will leave you behind. The same people you're defending will watch you get dragged. The people you trust with your secrets will be the ones to expose you . Focus on your books and find like one or two drama free associates. Keep yourself outta trouble and don't loose focus studying boys, because they ain't no good either, but that's another story. They will be there after you graduate just wait . Don't let anyone
change you. Stay true to who you are and move yourself

-A Caribbean doll

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