PROUD

The group of friends we have formed in our class is made up of five girls.  It is strange, or perhaps not so strange that there are only girls, and no boys, given that there are relatively few boys anyway in the whole year. 
All of us in the group are very different – we all have our problems in and out of the group as with any group of friends, but we manage to solve them because we have strong friendship based on respect.

We first met in 2009, after finishing secondary school, and during this last year our friendship has been growing ever stronger.

Our values are similar, and we usually behave in similar ways. When one of us has a problem, we all try to help her out, listening to her doubts and comforting her so she feels better, like all good friends do. When the problem is to do with boyfriends, again we listen to the worries, and we meet and find it helps to eat food and snacks we like, such as chocolate, and even to cry together while listening to our friend talking about her worries with the relationship.

However, my two best friends are actually a boy and a girl, and we form a very varied little group.  My best friend who is a girl comes from a different social background, in a higher social group which means she has a different viewpoint on life.
I found out last month, when we went to Alicante together for four days, and I could see the many differences that there were between us.  In many ways I am similar in character to the girl, but possibly being a boy, I found that he was very different, even to the point of being lazy.  Although he helped us with some things, and we all got on very well together, I realized just how different we were.

The girl, who comes from a very well off family, lives differently to me.  Her father studied hard when he was younger, and has a very good position in a bank, with a house in El Escorial where she can meet her boyfriend, which means that I do not meet with her as often as we could.  Despite this, she is always inviting me to come to her house to spend the day, and we talk by phone quite often if we can’t meet and go for a walk or spend time together.  I remember that before we left school we would meet every day, but nowadays with the pressure of university and time, we only really meet at weekends or only once a month.

In spite of this, we are the best of friends, although our values and behaviours are different. We all know the most important things in our group is to understand one another and the friendship that exists between us, and above all the respect.

Although they do not know between them, all they form my peer group, and I feel very proud to have them.

Niluc in Spain...

Hello, my name is Niluc. I come from another planet called ELAB, which is located in a very remote part of the galaxy. I have been sent as a special news reporter to investigate how the life is here on earth, the planet they call “Tierra”, because, as you will see in my reports, they are very strange people with funny customs and habits.

Bolletin 1:

I arrived today, November 7th by earth time, in a country called Spain. I am walking down the street and I can see very tall buildings, with people walking out of these buildings and sitting down in the street to drink and eat. This all seems very strange to me. The people are sitting in funny boxes with wheels that take them to different places, and sometimes, when a light on a high pole changes colour, they stop.  Why can this be?
I have heard a woman talking to a small child, and she was telling him: " you have to sleep soon, tomorrow you have to go to school". What is a "school"? Tomorrow I will get up early and will go school. They also have spoken about their jobs. I have too much to discover in this so rare planet.

talk to you tomorrow! Bye!