Shaw Academy: A membership that turned into a nightmare!

Sometime in January, I decided to sign up for a Shaw Academy membership. I thought taking a psychology course was going to be beneficial for me but, it turned out to be uninteresting. Before my 4 week trial was up, I called the cancellation number and spoke to a guy named R. I told him that I wanted my account cancelled and he told me that he was going to do that and give me a “free toolkit.” Personally, I didn’t care for the toolkit, I just wanted my account cancelled. Fast forward to February 20th, my card was charged 69.99 for a membership that I cancelled in January. When I saw that they charged my card, I immediately called the cancellation number and it wasn’t open. My next thought was to email the support team and the next day I got a message from someone. He said that my account was not cancelled and they can’t offer me a refund. He also said he could offer me 6 months free like I wanted that. I told him if I could speak to someone else and he ignored me. I had to write to another email for someone to finally talk to me. The guy that I recently emailed said the same thing and that I “reactivated” my membership (which was a lie because I never reactivated anything). Truthfully, this is a nightmare that I want to end. This “academy” is nothing but a scam that claims that they care about a students education. In reality, they’re only trying to get your money and claim that you didn’t cancel your membership. Number 1: they make it hard for you to cancel your membership. Typically, you could cancel your membership online but with shaw academy, they want you to call so someone could bribe you to stay. Number 2: They are unsympathetic about your situation. For example, both guys that I talked to did not show any effort on getting my money back. They just said “Due to the terms and conditions we cant give you a refund.” And I don’t understand that because what happened wasn’t my fault, it was the guy that I spoke to fault for not cancelling my membership. And number 3: You can’t even take your card off their website! When I tried managing my payments, the screen just loads. My advice to anyone considering shaw academy is to google their reviews and see how there’s others who are complaining about the same thing I am. I feel like its sickening that this “company” could take money from people and make it harder for those who want their money back. And its also sickening to say you care about education when you’re just using it as a way to get money from those who wants to learn. Not to mention that I emailed the founder and they never responded back. I’ve been dealing with this nightmare ever since the 20th and never received my money back.

Love

When we first met

It was love at first sight

I tried pushing you away

And deep down I knew it wasn’t right

It took me a while to realize

That you’re the one I want

You showed me what love is

And forgave me for what I did

I never thought I’d find love

Until that day you sat next to me

If you asked me what I love about you

I’d say everything

Brown eyes

Damn I wish you were by my side

I can’t stop thinking about you every night

Can you wrap your arms around me one last time?

Can I feel your lips on mine?

I want to look into your brown eyes

June 16, 2021 0

Bullying: My experience

When I was in elementary school, I experienced bullying. I remember telling an adult about it and it didn’t really stop him from bullying me. I didn’t understand why I was being bullied by him and until this day, I still have no clue. Even though I was getting physically bullied by a boy in my class, being bullied verbally got to me. In middle school and high school, I was bullied verbally. One of the things I won’t forget is the prettiest to ugliest list. According to them, if your name was at the bottom of the list, you were the ugliest. My name was in the ugly part of the list and in high school, it’s because I looked depressed. By the time I was in high school, I told myself to be more focused on grades and how I would get a high gpa. I did great my 9^th grade year, but I also dealt with bullying. I remember crying one day in the rain because a boy kept talking about me in the class. I didn’t know him, and he talked about me like he knew me. I told one of my parents about it and their advice didn’t help me at the time. When I transferred schools, I didn’t experience bullying as much as I did in my old school. I was called ugly and people picked on me, but I later forgave them after some knew what they did.

Being bullied was an unpleasant experience for me. At the time I was bullied, I tried my best to ignore them, but that didn’t do much. I would sit in the chair pretending that I don’t hear them when I was waiting for it to stop. Looking at my bullying experience, I hated that I changed myself just to fit in with those type of kids. Not only did I get myself in a lot of mess, my grades were dropping in the process. On the day of graduation, I remember not being happy like the other people in my class. I felt like I didn’t accomplish anything and how I didn’t get honors. Even though I was putting a smile on my face for my family, I hid that I didn’t get honors. Not getting honors and not going to a university were things that took me into depression. On top of that, I had thought about the past and I didn’t realize that time was passing me by.

Dealing with that experience has made it difficult for me to move on from the past. Sometimes I think about those that talked about me and how I didn’t defend myself back then. I feel like its easy for someone to say “you need to let it go,” when its not an easy thing to do. Everyone heals differently and for me, it’s just taking me a long time to do that. Honestly, I don’t know how I made it through that experience because in that moment, I didn’t think I’d get out of it. It felt like I was going to stay in that situation forever and that I was worthless. Every time I turned around, I couldn’t really catch a break from what was going on. I remember one moment where I was going insane because I didn’t know how to handle my problems.

As I got older, I’ve met people that gave me hope through my situation. Although I didn’t have a pleasant experience with bullying, I try to take steps each day to heal. I will continue taking steps and trying to be a better person I was meant to be. If I could say anything to someone being bullied, I would tell them to not give up and don’t change who you are for them. Changing yourself for them is nothing but a waste of time and can cost you when you’re older. Continue to get good grades and try to be the best person you can be. You push forward no matter what happens to you because life is worth living! Find your purpose and don’t give up! Don’t let any bad apples destroy your life experiences!

May 31, 2019 0

My favorite anime openings

Hey everyone, my name is Sierra and today I’m listing my favorite anime openings! Honestly, I love listening to anime openings/endings because they’re catchy and I can’t stop listening to them! Definitely tell me your favorite anime openings!