So, today I hosted my china-visitor.
Wahah, i got xue quan to translate for me (;
Tomorrow's projects day, and hosting them for a whole day, recess, lunch, lessons.
Ok, a really, sad, true song,
it raises awareness on bullying.
The song and videos are worth the wait, so please, wait.

Every single day, a poor child is bullied cruelly, inhumanly, and forced to suicide or death.
Faces in the hall - Gym Class Heroes

Please excuse the screaming at the end. It is completely irrelevant to the video, song, or the message behind.
Here, the song, with lyrics.
You have to look at the lyrics.

I knew this kid named Alberto.
Funny style cat.
And his girl looked like a turtle.
Not Lisa Turtle, just a turtle.
Highschool track he ran the hurdle.
His peers shed tears senior year when he got murdered.

Now Alberto was your average A student.
Participated in class,
Never came late,
And never true.

And his family was picture-perfect.
His older sister was prom queen.
His dad a decorated vet for the Vietman team.
His mother was Dear Abby,
An ordinary house wife,
Like clockwork always had dinner on the table at five.

But Alberto had a monster,
He kept under his bed.
And instead of letting it out,
He just got a girlfriend instead.

She knew something was funny.
She could tell by his behavior,
Or the way he flamboyantly shook his hand when he would have to her.
She thought nothing of it,
Just shoved it in the closet.
Until the day the word dripped out like leaky faucet.

Now Alberto was homosexual.
I ain't have nothing against it.
But little Ronnie Johnson and all his football player friends did.
They always pick and gag.
Calling him fag and such and such.
Couldn't wait to get to gym so they could really bust his nuts.

The gym teacher never cared.
He just joined in on the action.
Make silly gestures and compare him to Michael Jackson.
Alberto couldn't take it,
He just stopped showing up.
And whenever he walked them halls he just felt like throwing up.

And at night he would cry and cry and ask God why.
Like God. Why the fuck I had to be born this way?
God would reply. Son you gotta show them your more than gay.

See he had dreams to be a track star.
Until the warm April night them gay jokes just went way to far.
Ronnie begged for his forgiveness and invited him to a party.
Cause his parents went away and left him plenty of bacardi.

Alberto kindly acepted.
He was finally accepted.
Except it was all deception,
and left him all unprotected.

It was a plan Ronnie had scammed to get him in the right place.
Verbally degrade him and re-arrange his pretty face.
The plan would go swiftly,
They started calling him sissy,
One punch turned into fifty,
They beat him til he was dizzy.

Now Alberto lie in blood while his peers look on in fear.
His took his last breath and passed away his senior year.

Needless to say it was one big tradgedy.
And how is Ronnie gonna explain to his family?
While they were on vacation taking in sites,
He got wasted, killed a kid that night.

-&~&-

I knew this girl named Mariah.
Bright and talented.
With aspirations to be a big superstar.
What a great idea.
Until she fell off and started listening to her peers.
Oh dear.

Now Mariah was your typical obnoxious and a little cool,
Headstrong rebel flipping off the principal.

Single mother, home structure,
She looked after her baby brother.
While her mom works two jobs just to buy supper.

Pops was a struggling musician,
Trouble man,
Juggling family and a heroin addiction.
He overdosed and left a notice of eviction,
and a crate of records in the kitchen.
And a little angel with a keep sence of sound.
Who saw silence in the records she found.

She would stay up late at night,
Reciting songs to herself in the pale moonlight.
Writing wrongs that her pops made.
Promised her mom she'd never go the same route,
Turns out, Carri-Anne had other plans.
Her and her man Ronnie most popular second best to nobody.

Homecoming queen vs. Ugly duckling.
And the story ends the same way,
Ok, Ronnie's parents went away for a couple of days and told him no drinking.
what the fuck was they thinking?

Maria was oblivious that her boyfriend had already been invited.
So when Carri-Anne asked she got all excited.
Like damn, Now I got something to look forward to.

Or so she thought.
Maria kindly accepted.
She was finally accepted.
except it was all bull shit.
Not paying attention.

Carri-Anne hated Maria cause she could sing.
So she she scored a bag of heroin,
but the craziest thing was Maria never touched drugs,
She did that night.
And when her man was getting beat she was nowhere in sight.

Now her boyfriend lie in blood,
and she had no idea.
Alberto passed away and she got hooked her senior year.

Needless to say it was one big tradgety.
And, I hate to break it but it doesn't end happily.
A warm day in May,
the sky was so beautiful,
Carri-Anne died in a crash leaving the funeral.

An estimated number of 160,000 children skip school everyday in the fear of being bullied. And 1 out of every 7 , or 30% of children is either a bully, or a victim. BULLYING MUST BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. TOO MANY CHILDREN ARE
BEING EMOTIONALLY OR PHYSICALLY INJURED DUE TO MEANNESS.

No, i do not get bullied. I just heard this song, and realized, how much and how prevalent bullying is.
Bullying till the victim commits suicide, or bullied to death, is certain a great pity.

You can read more about bullying, and how to stop it here, here and here.