During Humanities class, we were told to type out a blog post about a time we observed or did any bullying. On Monday, we had a bullying workshop. We watched a movie about some Middle Schoolers who were being bullied. We also talked about the different types of bullying. This is my experience on observing or bullying.
     One day while I was still attending my old school I saw a girl which looked about 2 years older than I was. At the time I was 7 years old. The girl that I saw was bullying another girl who looked about my age. Her name was Natalie Gan. It turns out that she was in another class, but she was in the same grade that I was in which was 1st grade. The older girl that I saw was named Jessica, she was in 5th grade. 

Two girls fighting

     When I saw Jessica bullying Natalie I was really shocked. It was in the cafeteria and Jessica was strangling Natalie. Natalie was crying, but there were no teachers around. At first I was thinking of helping Natalie, but when I saw the size of Jessica there was no absolute way I was going to stand up for Natalie. Later on that day, the teachers were asking around the school to see if anybody had witnessed the scene. But only Jessica's friend Natalie was pushing Jessica around so Jessica strangled Natalie. When a teacher asked me I said that I wasn't there when the scene occurred. That day I could not sleep at all. The next morning, I saw that Natalie was not in school. Apparently she couldn't breathe for a while and had been admitted in a hospital. She was in the hospital for 1 week. I was very glad when she came back, I went straight up to her gave her a hug and apologized. I thought that Natalie would be really mad, but apparently she was really cool about it. She told that it didn't matter and that there was nothing I could have done anyway and what's done is done.
     Ever since that day every time I see somebody getting bullied I go over and tell the person that is getting bullied to just walk away. If I could ever change the past and change that scene I would. I would have stood up for Natalie and told Jessica to leave Natalie alone and pick on someone who is her own size because we certainly weren't. 
      The two main goals that I have for the year are to stop the bullying between people at my school and to make a good friend. But when I wanna stop people from bullying others I would say it with respect and politely. And if I see someone being bullied in the future I will take action and tell the bully to stop.

STOP BULLYING