Kaci B • New York • 15
I normally live in Vermont with my parents who are both in the army. They both got deployed for a very long time so I was to go to boarding school. (Please bear in mind that I have been doing this for a while but I had been at home going to a local school for 3 months until my parents were deployed.) There were not many good boarding schools in Vermont but we were close-ish to New York. I got there and about a week later, my first period arrived.
I was 11 and had been very poorly educated about puberty. I thought I was going to die. I gathered a meeting with all my new friends and quietly said "I'm bleeding to death." Everyone was so worried. Because most of them were 10, I told my mentor who was 14 and she just handed me a stack of pads and tampons and said "you are a woman now".
I am still at this school and I now mentor other new kids. There have already been about 10 period situations and I've only been doing it for 2 months!
