I was reading other people's blogs when I came across Annie Young's post:

One incident that sticks out is this: A good friend of mine (Let's call her Abby) had been best friends with a separate girl (Let's call her Sophie). But Sophie had turned incredibly clingy, and would get very upset if Abby was friends with anyone else. So, Abby, out of options broke off the friendship, realizing that it was hurting her. Sophie was devastated, hurt and angry. She began commenting on all of Abby's Facebook statues with rude comments on anything that was posted. (Which, was a form of bullying in itself). I defended Abby, and for about a week, my best friend and I would stand a few feet away from Sophie before school, sending glares her way, occasionally saying rude things loudly.

We never directly spoke to her, or threatened her. But if we ever saw her, maybe in the halls, maybe in the library, maybe on the blacktop, we would glare, and if we were close enough her name was possibly said, "Sooooophie." The single word would be whispered, the implications of what we could do to her would be left hanging in the air. I don't think Sophie realized that in reality, we were two 5'5 girls, who couldn't possibly manage to do anything to anybody, half the time we struggled carrying our own backpacks. But she didn't know that.

This post stuck out to me because I thought that the way she wrote her essay pretty much covered everything that needed saying. One thing I liked that she did was use anonymous names for the people. It reminds me of that activity we were doing in class the other day about masking your identity. The second thing I liked was that she even said that they were 'just two 5'5 girls who had a hard time even carrying their backpacks'. The reason I like this part is because of the way she described it. The final thing I like about this is that it is from a different side of the story. It is sort of like at first Sophie was the bully, but then Abby and Annie got in her head. I think that was a good strategy to use in that position. I think that Annie's Post was over all my favorite because of the care and thought she put into it.

This relates to the ASTI constitution in four main ways. The first way was by resolving the conflict peacefully. The way she did this was by not threatening her, but just sort of ignoring her. That was one of the steps that i wrote in my essay. The second thing Annie did was think before she acted. She had to think about if she should step in on her friend's problem and help, or just stay out of it and let it resolve by itself. If I was in her situation I would have stepped in too because it is good to help your friends with their problems. Next she spoke up for one of her class mates by help her with the problem because it is the right thing to do. This one relates a lot to the last one because it talks about how Annie helped Abby,and what she had to do to help. Finally the last thing that relates to the constitution is building mutual trust for others. When Annie allied herself with Abby she began to build mutual trust for her. Building mutual trust with someone is important because if you are ever in a bad situation the person you trust can return the favor by helping out of your hard times. In this quote Annie talks about a hard time in her life, but I think because of that it made it easier for her to talk about