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alrighttttt so i know that drinks on cruises are kinda expensive.. if i try to sneak my own alcohol on.. what will happen?? will they know and get me in trouble? like if i put it in shampoo bottles?

i know you dont want to hear this but that is a very bad idea. especially if you get caught. you could be taken off the cruise. trust me, it would be bad if you got caught. and usually they will find out.

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I really like two types of clothing right now. bare with me on the labels i don't like them either. "emo" and "preppy" both are things that i would like to wear. But i have always worn more of the "emo" types of clothing. how can i mix both types together ? Also i don't no how to get my friends to like the new clothing style. They also fit under "emo". Any advice helps. thanks.

-Dakota

well, what do you mean by preppy?

do you mean button down shirts and skirts?

if you de then wear a white button down shirt with a vest

http://www.worksmart.ca.gov/tips_interview.html

just experiment with what you want to wear and base your ideas off of that.

if you are confident in what you are wearing then it doesnt matter what other ppl think.

be yourself and show ppl who you are

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I have to have an interview with another school's guidance counselor to see if I can get in to that school next year.I was just wondering how do I not get nervous and what if I dont know the answer to a question or questions they ask me???I dont want to look stupid in front of that person.HELP ME!!!!

relax

look at these tips from the links below

http://www.interviewtips.org/

http://jobsearch.about.com/cs/interviews/a/aceinterview.htm

http://www.roberthalffinance.com/portal/site/rhf-us/menuitem.4cfd557786ede19f9a64e9c302f3dfa0/?vgnextoid=235ff1ab78d7c010VgnVCM100000213ffd0aRCRD

http://www.worksmart.ca.gov/tips_interview.html

summary:
look nice
know your stuff
have good posture and manners (smile, handshake)
be yourself and be confident because you can do it!

Good Luck!

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In the 14 months since I had my baby I have lost 66 pounds.(10 lbs less than pre-baby) I exercise when I have time, do aerobic videos, lunges and push-up and sit-ups a few times a week, walk a lot, work 10 hour shifts as a cleaner...I am still flabby and looks like a lot of loose skin on my legs and stomach and hips. Will it ever shrink back? How can I make it go away?

keep at it. skin is elastic and in time will streatch back to fit your body.

my mom lost her flabby skin w/o knowing it cause she just kept on excersizes and her ody did the rest.

it takes time but it does happen

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15/f
Next week, my family is to Portugal for our Spring Break. I ammm portuguese, and speak it too (even though its not that good but I can speak it well enough to like get around). Anyways, this year I reaaaallyy want kinda like a "spring fling" thing I guess, with a portuguese boyy cuz theyre sexyy ;) haha.
How could I meet any? I'm only gonna be there for maybe a weekkk. Our appartment is in the middle of the city, and its pretty chill up there, so I could always just sit outside just chillin and maybee some guys will pass. But I really dont knoww haha and it would be so nice to meet "um rapaz" :)
Thanks!

go places

sight see and go into the local stores. go to a nice warm coffee place. enjoy yourself, be nice and happy

youll be fine

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i'm in forensics, and for those of you who don't know what that is, it's a school activity and many schools throughout the nation have their own forensics team and it's competitive public speaking. there are different sections, two of which are debate & speech. well, i'm in speech, declamation specifically, and i had to memorize someone else's speech and i simply have to recite it (with hand gestures, etc.) several times in the different rounds. my state tournament, nj, is from march 7-8, and well, i'm pretty nervous. i've never been to a state tournament before, and it's a two-day tournament except not overnight. i'm just nervous because the only reason i broke (break = get to the final round) in one of my last tournaments (in order to qualify for state tournaments, you have to break in at least one tournament) was because there weren't that many people. but now that it's the state tournament, it's going to be very competitive, and there's going to be a LOT of kids who do better than me.

here are my questions. you can answer any or all of the following:

1.) does anyone have any advice for a declamation speecher in forensics?

2.) any advice for public speaking in general? (don't tell me the obvious. doing say "hand gestures" -- please be as specific as you can)

3.) any advice on how to be less nervous? i know by thursday night i'll be spazzing.

thank you!

here are some helpful links that give advice on public speaking, etc.

http://www.aresearchguide.com/3tips.html

http://www.speaking-tips.com/

http://www.ljlseminars.com/monthtip.htm

http://www.actnow.com.au/Tool/Tips_on_public_speaking.aspx

http://charactercounts.org/getstarted/speaking.html

now for not being nervous, i would say to keep practising, knowning the material will give you confidence in not messing up, look at the audience and the judges (dont look down). try your best, have fun, make it sound interessting (so the audience is interessted too).
i know you will do great because i did this and i won first place in a speech contest myself.

Godd Luck!

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normally, me and my girlfreidn talk on the phone everyday. When we dont, we are ussually texting. The other day, she dropped her phone and she couldnt see anything on the screen. But the phone worked, as in you could navigate around if you knew where everything was. So basicly, this happened on thursday. So we talked thursday night, and then yesterday, i text her asking if she was ok. She didnt text back, but she rang me at night, asking if i was ok, and that she was at the pub and that she'll try to text me later on. I was cool with it, and carried on with my day.she didnt text. So today i text her, asking if she's ok, but she hasnt text back or anything, and her phone must be working because she rang yesterday. What should i do? i havnt heard from her all day, and yesterday night? i cant go over and see her because she's quite far away at the moment. any tips?

just wait and be patient and hope for her well being

i dont think shes avioding you

maybe shes just gettin a new phone.

dont be so worried, im sure everything is fine, relax and hope things are fin but dont obsses over them

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i act really spastic when a guy talks to me

how can i remain calm and sound cool like iv got it together?

spastic?

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i live in connecticut and am a junior in high school. i want to major in business but i dont know what colleges are the best. my gpa is around 3.3ish or 3.2ish and i havent taken the sats yet. i dont do any extracuricular activities or sports... so what are some good colleges that you would recommend? also i dont really want a small college, more so a bigger one. thanks!

i cant help you personaily but i can help none the less

go to www.fastweb.com

its free and even i use it (its for scholorships ad college selection)

what you do is when you sign up youget a chance to tell what kind of colleges your interessted in and fill in stuff about GPA aetc. Then is provides a list based on your choices. It is truly, very helpful.

plus the scholorships are great cause your informed of them (also has jobs and a internship search)

well good luck

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Please Please identify this flag for me. My grade depends on it. Please tell me whose flag this is: country, institution whatever. This is very important to me.



http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/ii208/bobbooby/?action=view¤t=get-attachmentaspx.jpg

do you if perhaps its a flag form a different time because that could help us figure it out. I tried looking throug flags and didnt see that one.

it there anything you know about where it could be? i really cant find it and i think it would help if there is mre info prvided.

if u do hv info send it to me (ainne1992)

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i won my school spelling bee and on march 8, im moving on to the district local spelling bee. i am not experienced, so give me some tips to do good and not be scared and nervous! confidence tips and spelling tips if i dont know the word, and how to accept if i dont move on to the nevxt round... well because i am a very COMPETITIVE competitor, and i have NEVER experienced anything like this before and for me to lose this thing for the first and last time, i would DIEEEEEEE.


I want this so bad. More than anything else, for me to move on to at least the regionals would be perfection, especially coz im NEW to this, as i mentioned earlier.
Ive seen akeelah and the bee and she won even she was new to it, and i really want to win this year, especially because it is my last year. [im in eighth grade]





SO I ASK OF YOU TO GIVE ME SOME SPELLING TIPS, AND CONFIDENCE TIPS.


thank you very much and WISH ME GOOOOOOD LUCK AND HOPEFULLY I MAKE IT TO THE REGIONALS!!! :)

okay well, obviosly if you had tried to anything like relaxing for your previous spelling bee, it worked

try to do that again

relax, when you get up there take a couple of deep breaths and focus on the word and not anything else.

if you need a list of spelling bee words then look at the following
http://www.spellingbee.com/cwl.shtml
http://www.eyedocgreg.com/homeschool/spelling_bee.htm

here is a list of tips that will help (link)
http://www.spellingbee.com/glance.shtml

aditional links that can help
http://www.homeschool.com/articles/SpellingBee/default.asp
http://www.gailsmall.com/spellingbee.htm

also think that
YOU can do it! you know all the words and you are a great speller, so no sweat. it'll be easy!

Good Luck!

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I'm 16, I'm 150, and I think 5 feet tall. Yes I am short.

I want to lose 25, or better yet, 30 pounds by summer. Why? I absolutely love clothes. I love fashion. But sadly, there isn't a lot of clothes that I am fond of that look very flattering on flabby/chubby people. And it's really hard to find 'on sale' clothes that come in medium-extra large. I also want to lose face flab :D.

However, the difficulty lies in doing so.
I have a threadmill, however, I think it's really boring, even with music. I'd much rather do cardio on an elliptical and do weights at the gym, but the problem in that lies in the fact of persuading my parents! (any advice on doing so would be help alot)

I don't really have a problem with eating, but when I'm stressed I like to eat 'Cadbury Milk Chocolate with Hazelnet/Fruits' which is calorie packed. Chocolate is also really compact so it fits in my bag and I can take pieces of it without the teacher seeing (ahaha) seeing as we're not allowed to eat in class. If anyone has a substitute food that I can eat/take to school, it would help a lot.

Thanks people who reply :P

hey, im 16 and 5 ft too, its nice to know other ppl as short as me, lol

anways, recently ive read that doing the same activities day to day will not actually help you loose weight.

you hv to try doin different things to target different parts of your body.

try dancing along with music, its a great way to break a sweat

and also when you are stressed try to chew gum, it helps slow hunger and gives you somehitng to put in your mouth

good luck :)

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im turning sixteen in may and i have no clue what to do. i want to have a party but i dont know what to do.like i want to have a big one but not to big but i dont want it to be small and me and my friends end up sitting there.

then theres an idea my mom has and instead of having a party me and her go somewhere and spend a weekend together.
and maybe possibly get a cell.

advice please.
:]]
much appreciated.

okay well, actualy i was planning on renting out a skating place for the night and having ppl go there. so what you can do (if money isnt an issue) is ask your friends where they might like to have the party. then have it there and invite lots of friends with lots of music.

but on the other hand, i really like that trip idea your mom had. i would say that might beat the party idea especially if you dont really spend that much time with your mom.

but really what i would do is ask around and see what you friends think about where to have the party

happy early b-day (mines in 2 weeks ;) )

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know what name of shampoon that good for all girl's hair, make the hair so beauitful, shine, not too oliy and no FIZZY? and Puffy? and also make hair grow faster?

cuz i want my hair look good and long.

well actually i have found that it is much better to just use conditioner after shampooing.

it doesnt matter what conditioner you use but really it helps.

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well to start, i know i dont have old-woman wrinkles, im 16. but when i wear makeup and smile alot, i get these parenthesis-like lines on either side of my mouth. deep creases in my makeup. and not wearing makeup isnt the answer. whenever i rub my fingers over them to take them away, i get red streaks from where my foundation has been rubbed off and my natural skin tone shows through. is there anything i can do to make these lines go away, or be less noticeable?

lol i have those too cause i smile ALOT.

you really cant coverthem up, but you should be proud cause teh lines are from your shining personality :D

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Carolyn is my Substitute Mother because mine isn't there for anything, yet my real Mother has made it very clear our relationship is SchoolWork and thats it.
Well I know Im not doing good, im just so hyper and social... I need to stop I dont want to hurt peoples feelings by saying I dont want to talk to you right now but I have to because if I dont I'll lose her.
So I'm planning on asking Adam who is hardcore genuis to give em some advice and were firends so I know he will.
I just don't know how easy it will be...
I dont wanna hurt peoples feelings so
Any tips would be rocking.

like the other personsaid, im saying the same becasue i think you forgot to say the question. it will be happy to answwer it as soon as i have more info! :)

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Hi, I'm 14/f,
My nails are an ugly shape, and they grow at different lengths and break how can I get it to grow quicker and get a nice shape to it? At the moment I hate looking at my hands because of my nails.
Thank you!!

go to really any drug store to the ailse(sp?) where they sell things that have to do with nails

buy some nail strengthner

also its okay if your nails grow at diff length, like my pinky nail grows super fast while my pointer finger doesnt as fast..just cut them accordingly

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13/f

okay..
well ive had my period for about a year now

and... its still really dark...
like burgundy/maroon

1)is that bad?
2)please tell me i dont have to go to the gyno?
3)whats it from? and whys it still here?

no its not bad

its actually pretty normal for some people so its ok (if your really concered talk to your mom)

also you wont have to go to a gyno till your like 18, so its fine

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My parents are always in my business and my little sister too!! it doesn't help that my door doesn't have a lock. My mom always peers over my shoulder to look what i'm typing on facebook or AIM. It's so annoying. I have to close out all my windows when i hear someone walking in the hallway.
my sister goes in my room and looks in my journal. I read ONE entry in her journal and now she trys to find mine all the time. I try to find places to hide it, but i'm not very good at that sort of thing. Right now she can't find it, it's just i don't want her to be reading into my personal life, but i want to be able to express myself through my journal without having to censor it.

any ideas how to keep my sister away from my journal, and my mom to stop peering over my shoulder. Maybe some computer tricks to quickly minimize pages without having the name at the bottom?

well, dont blame your mom...
i mean shes just wants to be protective and thats normal...
here are somethings i found thats helps
- when you are looking on the comp screen, have a serious look on your face so it looks like you are doing hw
-occasionaly go to her when you take breaks, if say you walk randomly down stairs, she might not feel the need to come check on you
-some thing as above, only ask her a question about something, maybe hw...she will feel happy and needed

but i too have sisters and i know how sometimes you want to be left alone...the things you do interests her because she is just so curious
here are some ideas on where you can hide your journal
-under the matress
-in your school things
-buy another journal that has nothing in it (say that you bought another one but dont have the time to write in it anymore, write random entries that will bore her and will satisfy her)

well good luck with your situation...
any more questions? send it to my inbox :)

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I haven't hung out with my friend one on one in a really really long time. she finally says one day dude we haven't hung out in a really long time i miss you! it's like she finds time for everyone else but me.

i want to hang out with her, but should i even give her a chance considering she's been blowing me off so much? i'm not a high matinence friend it just seems like she never has time for me and always uses me when she's bored or other people are busy.

HELP!

i would definitly give her another chance..if you don't you might end a really good friendship in the processs

do something easy like go to a movie or even just go for ice cream.

maybe it onl seems this way to you...

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