Some interesting reading

There´s a long weekend ahead, what about reading a couple of your classmates´ compositions for the writing tests? They won´t disappoint you...

About your fears...

*"Being scared is that feeling you´ve got when you realise there´s something that can hurt you. Sometimes it´s good to feel that way because it makes you realise what things are important for you, the ones you would like to have forever. 
I play in a basketball team. Basketball is my way of forgetting my problems for a while, my way of being free. Each year it´s more and more difficult and the idea of not being good enough scares me although my trainer tells me not to worry. (...) Despite all these things, what most scares me is becoming one day what today I hate, I don´t want to be like the people would like me but how I like.
Feeling scared is human, it isn´t something bad, therefore it isn´t something we have to avoid. It´s just a part of life like many others, something that together with other emotions completes us and that in many cases is just in our mind".  

*"There are lots of things that can scare you. The thing that most scares me are clowns. Not the one in the circus but the ones that were so famous this year and scared people in the streets. (...) Once, in Halloween someone played a joke on me. A boy who I knew saw some kids dressed as killer clowns. They had really good costumes. He called them and when I least expected it they came running and shouting at me. Although it wasn´t that horrible, I really worked out. I have never run like that in my entire life!

*"For many people the scariest things are animals or films, but not for me, it´s very different. Firstly what scares me most is not reaching my goals. I would like to go to university and get my degree. Therefore, not getting it would be very frustrating". 

*"When I was 2 years old I was playing, as a child normally does, with a little white dog of my neighbours. In spite of the fact that the dog was taller than me I continued playing with him. Suddenly the dog hit me and I fell onto the floor. In order to call someone´s attention I started crying so that someone could hear me. Although at the beginning I thought it was going to be difficult that someone heard me because my parents and my neighbours were talking very loudly, finally my fater heard me and came running to help me. Despite the fact that I had a bad moment, finally I had a good afternoon.
So in conclusion since that moment I haven´t been able to be near dogs without feeling fear. My parents sometimes say to me they are going to buy a dog to make me confront this fear".  

*"Some months ago, I suddenly got stuck in a very small elevator, so I started to breathe in a faster way because I got nervous and I realize I have not overcome that fear yet". 

*"I personally think that losing your family and friends must be one of the most horrible situations to face. Altough we sometimes get angry with each other or we begin an argument they´ll always be the people who most support and love you. (...) We should appreciate what we have, because we could lose it at any moment". 

About suceeding and failing...

*"As I have already mentioned before, in order to succeed you need to try. In spite of  the fact that you will fall multiple times, you will have to stand up and keep going so that you can reach your goal. I must say that I feel I have suceeded thanks to Global Classrooms. My goal wasn´t winning an award or or going to New York. Of course I would have loved to go to New York  and winning an award was so amazing, but I wanted to participate in Global Classrooms for other reasons. First of all I wanted to have fun (and I really did), secondly I knew it was going to a great opportunity to learn new things (and I did) and lastly I wanted to take part in something important, not only for me, but also for my family and my high school. I also met a lot of incredible people. I basically suceeded, not only because of my award, but also because of the great experience I was able to live". 

About your dreams...

*"Despite the fact that I´m too young, I already know what I want to do in life: be an English teacher, in order to achieve this goal, I know I have to work hard but, why not? However, it,s not the only thing I want to do in life: Setting up a family might be very common, but nowadays many people don´t have future expectations, and having this as a dream is very strange. In addition, in twenty years´ time, being calm, with no worries, having what to eat the following day and seeing my children growing up in good conditions would make me feel very grateful". 

*"You need dreams, it´s a way human beings have to avoid reality, a way of seeing things like we would like them to be and not how they are, a way of feeling that you are here for something, for making them real.(...) Despite in dreams everything seems to be possible, I think dreaming limits us because you focus on making that real without realising that maybe there were better things you could have done. 
It´s good to dream, feeling able to do everything but more important than dreams there´s a reality we have to adapt to, therefore let´s open our eyes, let´s start to live and let´s stop dreaming". 

*"Art makes you imagine and be be open-minded. So the point is that I want to become a professional artist and do things in order to express strong feelings to people". 

*"There are some dreams that we are not able to achieve when we are awake. My dream is that, when I die, people will rememeber me. In other words, I want to be important, relevant for people. (...) As a final phrase, I want you to remember: sleep less and live more!"

About your worst nightmare...

*"Life doesn´t forgive anyone, so that is why I´m really worried about my family. Some parts of me won´t know what to do when I lose them. I´m afraid because maybe the time will come when they´ll be gone. It´ll really break my heart, it´s one of my weaknesses. Since they became part of my life they have been special for me. They are my inspiration and my strength". 

*"Speaking in public for some people is very easy but I am afraid of it because since I was little I have been shy so I don´t like to speak to many people. When I have to do a presentation or a project I get nervous and my heart starts beating faster and faster and as my heart starts beating faster my hands start sweating and I can´t talk well. When I start talking I only hear my heart beating and I think one day it will stop beating because of all the nerves I feel doing it". 

*"It was dark, I couldn´t see anything. I decided to walk but I couldn´t, I was inside a box. In spite of the fact that I couldn´t hear anything, I decided to shout. I wanted to escape, I was frightened, I had to go away from there, so I decided to hit the box so perhaps it broke. Once and again I failed, I couldn´t do it. Therefore I continued thinking and trying to escape. Although I was tired, I decided to hit the box one more time. And finally I broke it. I walked forwards and... there was another box, another one!".