ALEX'S ADVENTURES ON MONDAY

by ANISIA GHEORGHIU

      SEBASTIAN POPESCU

                                        Romanian school

Alex is 13 years old. He has a brother(David), a sister(Jane) and a dog, Banji. His mom, Maria is an artist and his dad, Jack is a chef. He is very happy with his life. That until one day.

It was Monday. He had six classes that day. Alex finished the first class with no unhappy events, however, suddenly, two of his classmates, Gabrielle and Michael came at his desk while he was packing his things and started to insult him, saying things like “You should drop out of school”, “You don't know anything”.

This was happening because Alex had better grades than the two children and they were jealous. But this didn't matter at the moment, so Alex ignored them.They continued to bully poor Alex break after break until it got to Alex and he started feeling lost, depressed.

He was overwhelmed by the situation so the only logic way to him was to keep it to himself, he didn't know what else to do.

It was the last class. Alex understood that he had to go through the same thing as last breaks: they would come up to him, told him he was ugly and dumb as they threw his notebook, backpack and pencil case around the class, threatened him that if he was to say something to the teacher or his parents they would do something bad to him.

When he got home he was greeted by his dog, Banji and he played with him.

After he finished his homework, his brother, David and his sister, Jane came and proposed to him to go outside and play some basketball. Alex refused, which shocked his siblings, knowing that he loved playing basketball. 

They figured something was wrong with Alex and they asked him what was wrong, but he didn't say anything to them, because he was too afraid of what Gabrielle and Michael would do to him.

     ALEX'S ADVENTURES ON

                TUESDAY 

       Scuola Secondaria 1°

             Cocchi-Aosta

                      Todi

by Eva Seraj and Anna Zampa

          There was in Green Valley, a countryside near Philadelphia, Alex, a little boy in the 8  grade. He was born in Green Valley but at the age of 13  he moved to the centre of Madison, in Wisconsin.  

His parents were   Jack and Maria; his brother David, was 16, and his sister Jane, was 10. He was really fond of his dog, Benjie, his uncle gave to him when he was 4. Alex was a really nice, lovely and kind little boy. He was also honest and very reliable, but his bad personal traits were shyness, insecurity, touchiness and stubbornness.  

As said before, he moved to the centre of Madison with all his family for his dad's work. On the first day at school, Alex met Jonathan and Anne, who soon became his best friends. In his school, Alex had to do an extra-curricular activity: he chose  basketball and the book’s club.

The book’s club was recommended by Mrs. Andrews, who became his favourite teacher and a person he could trust. They met each other on the first day of school in front of the bulletin board, where the extra-curricular activity was.

He was also nice in singing and painting. His mom, Maria, was a painter, and his dad’s hobby was singing. One day, a Tuesday morning Alex arrived at school with a pink sweatshirt. Noah, a classmate, saw Alex and begun laughing in front of the whole school and snapping photos with his mobile.  Alex was so ashamed he immediately ran away. Everybody laughed at him calling him “softy”. 

The next days, were a nightmare, everyone made fun of Alex and made nasty comments on the photos took and circulating on social media. After some days of bad pranks, Jonathan, who knew Alex's secret, decided to tell Mrs Andrew about the situation. During lunch break in the school playground she asked Alex if everything was ok. Alex trusting Mrs Andrews told her the situation. 

She immediately called Noah and his friends telling them to apologize to Alex and telling them that she was going to ask the headteacher a disciplinary measure. And so happened they had to clean and paint the School's Gym.

                            By Eva Seraj and Anna Zampa

ALEX'S ADVENTURES ON WEDNESDAY

by İPEK UGUNLAR - ELİF ELDEM

Turkish School

            Today was the last day of deciding the players participating in the basketball tournament in our school among 8th grade students. Everyone was looking forward to playing in the tournament. My father, Jack is used to say that I play basketball very well and carefully. My friend Jonathan was also very keen to participate in this tournament. I am in the 8D class, he is in the 8F. All the boys were going to meet in the social activity class at the third break to determine the men's basketball team that would participate in the tournament but when I entered the class, all the boys got quiet and started leaving the class one by one.When I asked why they were leaving, they didn’t reply. 

*****Which class will be the winner in the school basketball tournament?*****

 I followed them but they started running towards the meeting room quickly. Just as I was about to enter, the door slammed. I wanted them to open the door but they didn’t. At that moment I realized that they didn’t want me.I was very upset. 

I went back to the classroom.The class bell rang and my friends who didn't let me in came to the class.They were smiling. Our teacher,Mrs Andrew came into the classroom and took the list from Dave.He wanted the players to be ready in the schoolyard after the last lesson.

Dave,Brad,

Herry,Fred,

John

At break time,I sat on the bench with Jonathan and Anne and I told them what happened.They said I shouldn't worry too much.When the lesson was over,everyone hared off  to the garden.All the teams were ready.Mrs Andrew distributed jerseys to the top 5 players.He didn't give me a jersey because my name wasn't in the top 5 list.I wasn't sure if my name was even in the backups.My classmates were laughing among themselves while wearing their jerseys.For the 20-minute match,8A and 8B competed first.Then it was our turn.Our teacher asked for 8C and 8D classes to start the game.Our team lost 20-17 in the first half.

After a 5-minute break, the 2nd half was due to start but since Dave had to leave,Mrs Andrew asked me to put on the jersey and enter the game.I was so surprised. Anne and Jonathan were watching me too.They winked and made supportive gestures to me.This made me very happy.I was motivated for the game but when I got into the game,my classmates did their best not to let me meet the ball in the first 5-6 minutes of the period.But I was not discouraged.I defended at every opportunity, took the ball from the opponent team and threw it to my friends out front.In this way we started to equalize the score.

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                                                                                     By İpek Uygunlar - Elif Eldem

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Alex's adventures on Thursday

by

Escola Básica Dr. António Augusto Louro 

 Hi again, welcome to another episode of my diary.

If you don't know me, my name is Alex, I'm 13 years old and I'm in 8th grade.

    I live in the Countryside, in Green Valley, with my mother, Maria, my father, Jack and my siblings, David and Jane, who are, 16 and 10 years old. I also have a dog, Benjie. He is one of my best friends. 

Me and my friends, Ann and Jonathan, went to the park near our houses, to play a little bit. But after a while, a group of older boys approached us, with a suspicious look, but we ignored them and continued with our life. There was one guy, the leader, that was the most scary. He had a black leather jacket and a huge nose piercing.

Without noticing, they started following us. We got scared, so we went talk to our teacher, who lived nearby, about the boys. She said that they were known for scaring young kids and that they were from the 12th grade. Ann said that it was better if we didn't go to the park for the rest of the week, and we all agreed, including our teacher. So we did that.