Thursday

Yesterday I had class just like I do every Thursday. When I got to the church (remember that for later...I was at a church) where my class is held I went to sit outside for a bit, because I was there early and I still had a headache and wanted some fresh air before class.

While I was sitting outside, one of the ladies from my class said she wanted to talk to me for a minute. She had heard from someone else in the class that I was allegedly talking shit about her. Not true, but hey that's what she was told, so it must be true. Apparently the Facebook status in which I stated I was not surprised by the number of people absent from the class that day. Never named names, didn't call anyone directly, nothing. Just simply stated my opinion. Well that status update received some questions about the number of absent people and some comments about how I should take a day off in order to help other people in the class look better (cus you know, it's totally my responsibility to make other people look good...yeah right)...whether or not this person was joking or serious I don't know. In any case I stopped replying, because it was days ago and I had moved on. A friend from class (referred to as A) had proceeded to comment in response to the take a day off comment and basically said that "yeah she should really change to make other people look better" and then followed up with "no she wasn't joking".

Cut to well over a week later when I'm sitting outside killing time before class starts. The lady from my class asks me about what shit I was saying about her and whether or not I had a problem with her and whatever. I told her flat out, that no I was not talking shit about her at anytime, that I never said anything about her and that I had no problem with her. I also told her that basically I couldn't care less about what she or other people in the class were doing. I was focused on my work and my business and that's it. It their decisions to come to class or not and that I didn't care what their decisions were in regards to class, because we are all adults and it really wasn't my problem. That was that and she went inside and I stayed outside for a bit longer.

Lunchtime rolled around and three of us went out to grab pitas for lunch and when we got back I logged onto my computer to play around on Facebook and Twitter during lunch. I logged onto Facebook and immediately saw that someone (not naming names) had found my blog and posted a link to the post from November 22. This is the same person that I referenced in that post for the cyber bullying jokes and Photoshop stuff. Immediately after seeing this I logged into Blogger and switched my blog to invite only, I protected my Twitter and went outside because I was upset. He was basically doing exactly what he was accusing A and I of doing almost two weeks ago: Cyber Bullying.

I probably shouldn't have gotten as upset as I did, but I was overtired, overstressed, on my third day of a headache and honestly, not expecting this shit to go down. A came out to see if I was ok and eventually one of the teachers came out as well. We were talking about the whole thing and I was calmed down enough to go back in when the lady from that morning and two more girls from the class came out and ambushed me with a verbal attack about the whole thing.
Remember, we were at a church and they come storming out the main doors and just start yelling and swearing at me over the blog post and accusing me of breaking confidentiality and starting shit and whatever. We basically spent a good 15 minutes yelling back and forth about it all. Eventually they went inside and I stayed outside crying. The teacher wanted to still talk about it, so we did for a bit then one of the ones who had come outside to yell at me came back out and wanted to talk.
I obviously was not in the mood to talk to her again so I told her flat out " I do not want to talk to you, go away"...she kept pushing and the teacher was trying to get me to talk to her, but I just kept telling her the same thing; that I didn't want to talk to her and to go away. Eventually I said "if and when I decide I want to talk to you again, I will, but until then GO AWAY". I know, so mature, but honestly, after being verbally attacked for 15-20 minutes, I just couldn't care less. She then turned to the teacher and said she was offended by something she had said while we were all outside and I was getting a break from them ganging up on me. I don't know what was said but the teacher said that "sure they could talk about it" and they went into the lobby of the church to talk. About 15-20 minutes later, I noticed that the teacher, and some of my classmates were all in the lobby talking. Eventually one of the other girls in my class came out to talk to me and make sure I was okay. The teacher came back out and the three of us talked some more and then eventually, we went back into the class.

The teachers then spoke to the class about the whole thing, not going into too many details, but just that it had all started as a joke and whatever and had escalated and that as of now, the whole thing was done. If and when the situation will be discussed again, it is to be done 1-on-1.

When I went back into class, I ended up going back on Facebook and deleting about 5 people from my friends list who were all part of the whole cyber bullying/verbal attack thing and I changed my privacy settings to "Friends Only", and my Twitter is still protected and the blog is "Invite Only" (unless of course I have posted this to that blog, in which case obviously it's not).