Karen, Ican totally related. I also went to private school for K-8. I fit in okay with the guys in my class, and with the girls when we were playing basketball or they wanted help with school work, but never as one of the girls. By 8th grade eveyone was ready to move on to their respective high school and I was the only one going to a "county school" in instead of one of the "city schools"...I already had friends and a boyfriend there from my neighborhood, so people at my current school wanted little to do with me. When we went on a 8th grade class trip the people I thought were my friends intenitionally left me to sit in my hotel room while they all went to dinner together, making sure I knew I was not invited. It was an awful trip!!! Thankfully things were much better in public high school, but even then it took me awhile to fit in...I went to a grade school where the girls were the athletes and the guys were wimps, so when I was rough up the football team in gym class everyone looked at me a little strange. By the time I graduated four years later I think most people got over it and although I never had a lot of close friends, my two best friends in high school are still my two best friends almost 10 years later.