Magazine
Pretty Amazing
Divya November 2013
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Kickin’ It Old School! Page 16
Hello Fall! Page 11
I Used To Cut Page 24
Thank You! I’m so excited! This is the fourth issue! Can you honestly believe that?! I have released four Affinity magazines! All in four months! I love every single person who takes the time to go to the website and read it. I fall in love with every single issue as I make them! It’s honestly all hard to balance since I’m only sixteen and a Junior! But I manage to finish all the magazines on time! I love the cover of this issue so much! and hopefully everyone loves it because it is so different, but so beautiful! Thank you to everyone in the magazine this month! Love you all!
Evelyn Van Der Woodsen
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g n i z a m A y t t e Pr
Divya D
ivya has only been in America for three years, but she had learned alot from life to friendships. She has grown from being a tomboy to being a glamorous diva. Sometimes (all the time) people say she looks like Kim Kardashian, to which she says “I freaking love her!”. She’s really shy, but looking at her you would have never guessed it. She’s still learning everyday from life, and her journey has just begun.
Xoxo, Divya
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Nepali Princess Friendship F
riends are the most important thing in your life, if you have no friends, your life is boring,they’re your security blanket.You don’t find them, they find you! They just don’t happen, you find someone that instantly you feel like, “wow, this girl is like my secret twin!”. I don’t have one best friend, I love all my girls equally! All my friends have different personalities, and thats why we get along so well!
Family
Divya Facts!
I have a twin sister!
Family is my life! Honestly, you will never find anybody like them. If you have a happy healthy family, just thsnk God has blessed you very nicely. My top prioroity will always be them first! Even though I have a small family, I don’t like it.I always wanted a big family! My mom and dad are my biggest inspirations. I am blessed to have them.
Culture
People ALWAYS say I look like Kim Kardashian!
I am very traditional. I love my culture. I come from the background where I have this oppournity of having Indian culture, and Nepali culture mixed! I really love all my holidays. I’m very strict when it comes to my religion, guess you could say I’m religious! [laughs]
My Style To be honest, I’m not a fashionista. I’m very normal, I just go with the flow. Sometimes I overthink it, and it comes out bad. That’s why I just go with it is. I’m very fun when it comes to style. I think it’s fun, and how you can become a new person with just one look. Style can make or break who you are.
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Friends are the most important thing in your life, if you have no friends, your life is boring.
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Fall Style The Preppy Way
Print Pants I’m starting to believe prints pants are the favorite for this fall because that’s all we at Affinity rave about!
Combat Boots You just can’t escape these boots, cause it seems like EVERYONE has them! So that makes them the perfect Fall accessory! Especially with some high socks.
Crewneck Sweater You can basically wear this sweater with anything and give it a casual look, you can wear a button down under it, or just wear it plan, and pair with some jeans and riding boots!
Ask.Fm:
Easiest Way To Kill Yourself Alot of teenagers have Ask.fm’s, whether they made it out of curiosity or boredem, they have one. You probably made it expecting questions like, “do you like Kevin” or innocent questions like that, but for some people Ask.fm became an nightmare that plagued their mind to the point where they ended it all by killing themselves. Some of us are strong enough to handle criticism while some of us aren’t as strong.
Slut And Ugly Ciara Pugsley committed suicide in the woods near her home in Ireland last September after persistent bullying on her Ask.fm page. People would call her things like “slut” and “ugly” in the months leading up to her taking her own life.
52% Of Teens have reported being cyberbullied
Farmer
Joshua Unsworth’s body was discovered in the garden of his family’s farmhouse in the Lancashire area of England last winter. He allegedly was bullied for months leading up to his suicide, with anonymous commenters mocking his father’s job by calling Joshua “a farmer” and harassing him about his dating habits.
Kill Yourself
After being blackmailed on Skype, Daniel Perry, a 17-year-old from Scotland, jumped to his death from a local bridge. Daniel was harassed often on his Ask.fm page, with commenters telling him to kill himself and that he should cut his throat. He was then tricked into Skyping with someone he was told was a girl his own age and then blackmailed with screenshots by the anonymous users.
Kickin It
OLD SCHOOL
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“ i used to cut
Stalked
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and how I was
How I got my perfect fairytale.
That started the facebook stalking of him. He became my new obsession. I got his number off facebook texting him saying my name was Niki,knowing he’d never like me killed me. I was cutting every day in school. It was a escape but it was scary seeing your arm like it came out of a horror film. The pain started to feel amazing it was addictive. On the bus every day all I could think about was the knife rack in my dads kitchen stabbing myself to death. But when I got there my hand would shake with the knife and the only place it would dig into was my arm. Seeing my blood was so reassuring that every thing was going to feel okay.
Despite that,all my closest friends turned into my enemy. The mean girl quotes really bite. All my social struggles lead to more cutting and problems with my dad he took my phone because he felt I was being bullied. I couldn’t handle being so alone. I cut up my arm even more and flipped over and tore apart everything in my room,I couldn’t handle myself. My dreams of stabbing myself in the kitchen got worse. I yelled at my dad for his drinking, bad parentin, and moved in with my mom. While there I tried to stop cutting. I started obsessing over pop culture and Pretty Little Liars I was reforming myself to match the way they behaved. And that was when I entered Havre De Grace I was popular everyone loved me, but I geuss that that wasn’t enough. My science teacher called my mom and told her I was lesbian. I wasn’t, and my mother is Bi-polar so she exploded. I was slamming myself into the bathroom walls screaming without a sound cutting to the bone over the sink.
“ I was
awkward, ugly, and crushing on a group of guys way out of my league.
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It all started in seventh grade when all the girls in my Latin class would look at me and laugh and continue talking about me. I was slowly digging into the side of my thumb. It distracted me and relieved me of the thoughts. I looked down and started crying because I was afraid of what I was doing,but then I kept doing it in different places all over my arm and hand. People would ask what happened, I don’t blame them I had scabs covering my arm and hand. I had to think of lies to cover it. I wore odd fingerless arm gloves to cover the scabs. I couldn’t stop my suicidal thoughts that I had every day on the bus. I was awkward,ugly,and crushing on a group of guys way out of my league that my best friend and I called “the plaids” I asked one out and he said “ni” not no but ni. And that was when I started using knives.That confirmed what I had thought was being said about me. Which lead me to meet Mikey one snowy night,he petted my dog then walked off with his friend. I only knew his name because his friend yelled it.
I continued that type of cutting. I dated a guy for revenge and it came back at me. That was when I couldn’t walk without dragging myself against the lockers trying to break my bones in the locker room (my friend dragged me out). I went to guidence explained that it was because a nude that I sent and that was forwarded. She called my mother, who came and chased me around school with the staff. I was far out of their sight,they walked right by me a few times. They found me and then I was admitted into Shepherd Pratt where I was forced to learn to love my self. I got out in two weeks. My mom kept me out of school and away from anyone under thirty for four months. Where I made up imaginary friend to keep somewhat sane. I never spoke to them,they just watched Lord Of The Rings repetitively with me. Then my mom let me hang with Maddie (her favorite waiter at Silks restaurant) first night away from her I got trashed.
I soon joined the Volleyball team. It made me feel alive,for the first time in a long time. Then my friend Brenna set me up with Tim. I used him to get to get rid of my virginity.I hated it as much as I hated him. He then stalked me and obsessed over me after I dumped him,it scared me. I thought of killing myself to get away from him. He was the reason my mom kicked me out. I had to go back to the hell hole I tried so hard to escape from. Everyday. After some short relationships I decided I was going to be a old cat woman. So I got two kittens. That was when Mikey and I both sat in the back of the bus. I asked him if he wanted to meet my kittens and he said yes. We became friends. I had to remind myself every text that he didn’t want me.Then one night he kept hugging me when I let go for a second. The next night after another movie I was hugging him I heard his heart beat I brought it up he apologized. So I kissed him. The next day we started dating. It took awhile to get it threw my head, we’ve been together for a year and four months now in a way holding back from cutting lead me to him and now things couldn’t be more perfect. It really shows that having strength in your worst times leads you to your best.
“I was slamming myself
into the bathroom walls screaming without a sound cutting to the bone over the sink.
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r u o y n i h t g n e r t s g n i v “ Ha o t u o y s d a e l s e m i t t s wor your best.
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@EugeneSmith97
Introducing Brandon Smith My name is Brandon Smith. I’m a 16 year old rapper and producer from Dallas, TX. I have an album being released on October 31st, which is titled Peru. The title is inspired by the love of my life, Emily King, because shes Peruvian. She’s my biggest inspiration. Her, and my music, are my life.
Affinity Loves:
NWTS Carrie Diaries
I am literally addicted to this show since it first arrived on The CW last year! It is the teenagers version of Sex And The City. It is about Carrie who lands an internship at a fashion magazine, while having to balance her personal life and family. I mean a bonus is that Austin Butler is her love interest! Catch it every Friday night on The CW at 8!
As everyone says, put on a Drake song and you will be remembering all your old crushes and crying. This album doesn’t disappoint because it gives you 10% songs to get crazy to and 90% songs to cry to! After you listen, nothing will be the same!
TLC
We all watched the TLC movie, and we all loved it! It was inspiring, but sad. It taught us that dreams are attainable, and friendships last forever. We all were rocking out to the songs, especially, “No Scrubs”. We just It’s probably the only best part of Mondays! We all post couldn’t resist! Man Crush Mondays!
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