Giving up is hard to do

Astazi prezentam un eseu despre cele trei lucruri la care Magda Petcu, de la grupa S4B nu poate renunta. Eseul ei a fost remarcabil pentru consistenta sa si pentru ca Magda e un copil de 12 ani!

During your whole life, you meet people who, with time, become very important to you and you realise you can’t live without them. They are your family, your friends, your girlfriend or boyfriend, your pets or other things such as your childhood teddy bear, your mobile phone or some other personal things.

I’m one of those people that can’t leave without people. I don’t care if you take my toys, my phone or other boring objects.

In the first place, there is my family. I really can’t imagine my life without my parents, my sister, my brother, Fabrice or my grandparents. They mean everything to me. We are a happy family and since I was born, I’ve been a very happy kid.They offered all their affection to me and gave me everything I ever wanted. Through this, I would like to say a sincere “Thank you!” to them.

In the second place, there are my friends. How would I have lived if Diana, Edi, Robi, Eugen, Andra, Oana or Cristina hadn’t existed? They are like my family – my second family. They never left me when I had problems and started crying, as they never left me when I was happy and laughed. I know that childhood friendships don’t last a long time, but I feel that they will be mine forever. I really apreciate them because they are here for me.

And here comes third place, but this doesn’t mean that I care less about her. As you may have guessed, I don’t want to lose my cat, Trixi. Even though I’ve had her since December, she’s as important as my family or friends. She has run away twice, but she came back every time. In those moments, I realised how important she is to me.

The coundown can continue, but I told you about the most important things in my life. If I’d in the situation to choose between my life or theirs, I would choose theirs.

Remember, party people! I’ll never give you up!

Magda Petcu, S4A

Termina ce ai inceput!

Nimic nu se compara cu entuziasmul unui nou proiect . Atunci incepi sa visezi cu ochii deschisi: o sa fac asta si o sa obtin asta si o sa ma simt astfel…Sa avem un vedere un curs – in cazul nostru, un curs de engleza. Ti-ai luat manualele, CD-ul si ti-ai pregatit un caiet special unde vei nota toate lucrurile interesante si utile pcare ti le va spune profesorul.

Entuziasmul acesta de inceput pare sa se diminueze din momentul in care lucrurile devin ceva mai complicate. De cele mai multe ori, obstacolele ii fac pe oameni sa isi piarda din elanul cu care au inceput si sa aiba ganduri negative legate de esec si, din pacate, abandoneaza proiectul inainte de final. Inainte de inceperea unui astfel de proiect, trebuie sa va luati un angajament ca puteti duce acest lucru la bun sfarsit, mai ales daca va doriti foarte mult un rezultat frumos. Cand apar obstacolele, nu trebuie sa va ganditi sa renuntati. Amintiti-va ca aveti alaturi o persoana care va indruma si nu va vrea decat binele. In cazul cursului de engleza, cuvantul cheie este comunicarea. Daca aveti orice fel de nelamurire, intrebati! Daca aveti nevoie de un sfat cand vine vorba de scrierea unui text, profesorul va sta la dispozitie.

E pacat sa lasati in urma entuziasmul cu care ati inceput acest proiect. De asemenea, daca munciti pentru cele mai bune rezultate, e imposibil sa nu le obtineti! Cand va propuneti un target, asigurati-va ca faceti tot ce va sta in putere sa il duceti la bun sfarsit. Dati 100% din efort, pentru a evita viitoarele regrete de genul “Daca munceam mai mult…”, “Daca imi faceam toate temele la timp…” sau “Daca intrebam atunci cand nu eram sigur…”. Nu e ideal sa incheiati ceva cu chiu cu vai ca apoi sa va faceti reprosuri ca puteati sa faceti mai bine. Lupta sa fii cel mai bun acum si sa privesti acest proiect ca un invingator.

Nu e cazul sa incepeti cu gandul “Pai, daca nu imi place, pot oricand sa renunt…”.Nu e cea mai sanatoasa metoda. Da, sigur, e un lucru bun ca i-ati dat o sansa si ca ati avut curajul sa incercati lucruri noi. De cele mai multe ori, nu ne masuram succesele in lucrurile incercate, ci in cele finalizate.

Vacante nereusite

Vacantele nu sunt mereu ce ar trebui sa fie. Cand ne gandim la cuvantul “vacanta”, avem in minte ceva placut si relaxant. Insa sunt momente in care lucrurile nu sunt chiar ceea ce ar trebui sa fie, iar acestea sunt si impresiile seniorilor de la grupa S4B din Drumul Taberei, care si-au destainuit gandurile in niste vederi. Sa vedem ce nu le-a convenit!:)

Dear Steve,

I’m in Greece, but I wish I wasn’t. It’s been raining since yesterday, so the plane was delayed and we had to take the coach. The hotel is horrible. The room is cold and damp and I got food poisoning from lunch. I also lost my phone on the beach, which is rocky, not sandy.

I’ve been at a police station, but they told me they had more important things to do. It’s unusual for me to complain or moan, but I want to go home soon.

It’s time to go down for dinner. Let’s hope it’s better than lunch.

See you soon,

Frati (Radu Fratisteanu)

Dear Amy,

I’m in England, but I wish I wasn’t. This hotel is awful and the food is too expensive. I’m very bored and we can’t go out because it’s very hot. Although, I made some new friends here and they said we could stay at their home for our holiday. We want to go to France next week, but we’re not sure.

I hope tomorrow will be better. I can’t wait to see you again!

Love,

Miruna (Miruna Mantu)

Dear Samantha,

I’m in Greece right now, but I wish I wasn’t. It’s Friday and we’ve been here since Tuesday and, trust me, it is awful. We arrived here and we arrived by plane and the airline lost our luggage. The food is terrible and the hotel is huge and it is very hot in here. It’s two kilometres to the beach. I hate that it is rocky, not sandy. I hope to come back soon.

I love you,

Berry (Rebecca Marmeliuc)

Dear Cristina,

I’ve been in Egypt four days now and I’m having a terrible time. I wish you were here. My holiday started very badly – when I got out of the plane, I had the surprise that the airline had lost my luggage. It was good, because after six hours they found it. I was really nervous because in my luggage I had a big part of my money and all my clothes. I arrived at the hotel and there weren’t any rooms left. They had given my room to someone else. I decided to go to another hotel. There, the room was very comfortable, but the wiew from the window was terrible. The worst thing here is that the beach is four kilometres from here and the pyramids are six kilometres away.

In fact, they were the main reason we came here. It’s no use complaining now because tomorrow I’m leaving, though. It’s time to take the cab to the beach now. Let’s hope I won’t pay as much as I payed for the last taxi.

See you soon when I return home,

Love,

Magda (Magda Petcu)

Ne permitem sa judecam alte culturi?

Astazi avem un eseu de opinie din partea lui Alexandru Popa de la grupa S5 din Drumul Taberei.

We should acknowledge from the beginning that throughout history, there have been several types of behaviour and a lot of ways to express the general idea about morality. The key question we need to answer is wether we can afford to judge cultures and eras that played a vital role in human civilization or not.

Firstly, let’s not forget that people from the past lived in tormented eras, where war and conflicts were necessary to bring peace and harmony in people’s lives and thus they had different cultures that could seem strange for us. Moreover, at that time there were harsh leaders that were imposing their lifestyle, religion, jobs etc. It was normal for them to think that they are on the right path, even though some rulers were enforcing the wrong idea.

Secondly, we must remember that their society wasn’t as developed as the current one. They didn’t have such industrialized cities and they didn’t discover all the basic things, so we shouldn’t judge the times that the poeple were living.

However, it is true that some ideas from the past were completely wrong or that some wars were unnecessary for civilisation, creating global or national problems that people suffered from.

To sum up, I think that people shouldn’t judge former cultures and eras because people had another mentality and their civilisations weren’t so developed as they are nowadays.

 

A whole new set of essays – S4A

Curg temele in perioada aceasta la Follow Me. Seniorii de la nivelul 4 au avut de scris eseuri pro si contra. Tema a fost “Cum se va schimba lumea peste 50 de ani”.

Primul eseu vine de la Georgiana Lapusneanu.

The world is changing day by day. It is harder to survive in a world like this with all the technology and the monsters that we make? Is the future made by us or by the computer?

Let’s start by talking a bit about technology. Is it good? Well, the answer is yes because it makes our lives easy … but if we are making robots so smart, why aren’t we scared of losing control of them? What if they are going to be smarter than us in the future? They will control us! But right now they are destroying the Earth just like cars, factories, computers and other things.

On the other hand, if we are making technology so smart, we will be able to make our lives easier. For example, we could have a lot of free time (because the computer is doing our work for us and we just relax).

Finally, our world is full of computers, smart phones and other things that make some things look easy but we must control all of this technology or it could do a lot of bad things.

Bravo, Georgiana! Acum vine randul lui Mihai Filip sa se dea cu parerea despre lumea noastra in 50 de ani:

Fifty years from now, life will be much easier and healtier for ordinary people than it is today.

These days the world is changing faster and faster than ever. Another problem is the number of people on Earth, which has already touched 7 billion. But it’s also the faster changing of science and the world that creates oportunities for regular people to become rich.

Maybe many people think that fast changing of the world creates problems. Some think that the population will increase faster than ever before in history and the planet won’t be able to support us and it will crash down.

On the other hand, there are a lot of reasons that the world will change in a good way. Science will advance and the doctors will be able to cure the diseases more effectively.

Finally, I believe that life will be better fifty years from now. Although there are many problems facing the world. I don’t think that the situation will get out of control. I believe science will advance quickly enough to find solutions.

Si ultimul eseu pe ziua de astazi vine din partea lui Dragos Chereches:

There are few people in our days who could think of a world without their mobile phones.

It is a fact that mobile phones have a number of advantages, but let’s not forget about what scientists say about them – the fact that they can cause cancer and other things like that. And there are people that don’t know how to use their mobile phones on public transportation. Family members don’t even see eachother’s faces anymore.

However, mobile phones are great to keep in touch with friends from far far away. In fact, if you happen to have a car accident in the middle of an abandoned street or in the middle of the desert, you can call for help with it.

On balance, it seems that mobile phones have as many advantages as they do positive aspects. However, in more situations they are indispensable.

Felicitari, copii! La mai multe lucrari reusite si mult spor in pregatirea pentru examenul Cambridge!

Super eseuri de la super copii

Saptamana trecuta am vorbit despre intelegerea adolescentilor. Aceasta a fost perspectiva unei persoane trecute de 20 de ani. Intotdeauna am considerat ca fiecare problema sau poveste are doua variante. Sa o citim si pe cea a adolescentilor.

Alex Popa, unul dintre cei mai studiosi si buni cursanti Follow Me, a scris un eseu despre cum adolescentii sunt un cosmar pentru unii parinti.

                                             Teenagers are a nightmare for some of their parents

From a long time ago, teenagers were considered a nightmare for our society. But aren’t they the new generation who will take the place of the older generation? Aren’t they just like adults were in the past?

Firstly, it’s important to state that sometimes they just don’t want to listen to their parents and wreak havoc. Some of them are very spoiled and when they don’t get what they want, they begin to argue with their parents or storm out from a shop, moaning angrily that her mother didn’t want to buy her the ideal pair of shoes. But most of them are very angry because their parents didn’t let them do the the things they just want to do and therefore, they are very rude, talking with elderly people in an impolite way and turn up the music volume at night, waking up the neighbours.

On the other hand, not all teenagers can be very argumentative and rude. Some of them can be reliable, respectful and polite, which is a very good thing, because they are a true example of a teenager. Another point is that some of the argumentative teenagers behave so impolitely and argue all the time , because their parents don’t let their personality develop and they treat them like small children. Parents should let their teenagers go their own way, because if they don’t, the teenagers won’t have an easy life . Also, parents should let their personality develop, by letting them express their feelings and their own ideas.

To sum up, I think teenagers are more easy to handle if their parents would let them have freedom of feeling and thoughts but also the ones who know how to behave nicely should be severly punished.

In conclusion, teenagers can be good people if you know how to deal with them.

Alex nu conteneste sa ne uimeasca cu creatiile sale, iar noi, cei de la Follow Me suntem mandri sa avem astfel de cursanti!