What I like the most/least,useful and why?

I was not much time in this class but I'm going to write some things that I improved .As always I had a few difficulties with my writing,this class was the most useful class for me and I improved a lot.Up to some point I'm quite happy with my listening as well because I had already proven that,with my reading I'm not quite happy but always depencce how concentrated you are while you read.
However I liked that I meet many new people from all over the world and this was my excelent experience.
At the end I'm realy happy that I finished and now finaly I'll take a rest.:)

Natasha-How I met my ex boyfriend

My bloc will introduce how I met my ex boyfriend.
Everything happened when I was 16 years old.I was a little bit drunk but,  I remember the place where I met him very well,this place was the most famous night club in my city.We were drinking and dancing,but just like friends,when suddenly he made the first step.I was so confused I haven't got an idea what will happen after.It was a bit shame at that time to have a  boyfriend or to kiss somebody at night clubs,but yes I kissed him   as the majority of the female  do nowadays male population of the world.
I need to mention that this was bad relationship it was obvious that because we were jealously kids.during the relationship I felt really good like the whole world is mine but,after everything had changed.He was going out with friends,and I was doing the same,in one word I did not believe him in nothing.I felt so horrible when one day my best friend said me:-''I saw your boyfriend with one chick''.In that moment I felt so horrible like the space fell on me.I called him and we brake up.But I'm that kind of person when I brake up with someone that's it I couldn't give him another chance that was the end.
All in all this was not the end of our friendship, we are still friends,and this is better....:)

Shan

Well...I haven't had any 'official boyfriend' yet, but I can tell you something about an unofficial boyfriend who I met when I was three years old. I don't have much memory of my first love as I was in kindergarten then. However, as my mum always makes jokes about me and my 'litttle boyfriend', I didn't forget it.

He was one of my best friends. He was the one who always protect me and take care of me as he is older than me. I remember that he was fat and had a soft stomach which I sometimes lied on. He was a nice guy and we had a good time together. My mother and his mother were good friends and we often went out together on weekends. We spent a lot of time together. I don't know when we started to have feeling for each other because we like each other all the time. It's like from the beginning we were supposed to be together, we were so close.

 There was one day that I went out to a resteraunt with my family. The resteraunt happened to be holding a wedding. I turned to my mom and said,' Mom, he ask me to marry him when we grow up.' My mom thought it was so funny that she laughed at it but I can't understand why she was laughing. We loved each other and people who love each other suppose to get married.

It's such a pity that after we left the kindergarten we didn't keep in touch. And it's such a coincedence that he was a friend of my high school's best friend. They studied in the same primary school. She wanted to arrange us to meet but I was going to Australia and he was about to study abroad too! I have to say that the world is so small and mysterious. We haven't met for a long time and we are doing similar things.

how I met my highschool girlfriend

Many years ago I got an invitation from one of my friends to his parent`s house to chat with friends.

I didn`t know that this guy who was the same old as me has a younger sister. That was a very good surprise, wich isn`t happens everyday with you, when after knocking on the door the guy wasn`t who opened the door but his sister. She asked me that she could help me something, and I answered that I came to her brother.

But after one month the things were comlpletly changed. When I went to this house I didn`t already do it for having good conversation with friends but for meeting with the girl who has green eyes and red hair and who I met on the door at the first time.

Walter

I met my girlfriend when i was a high school student.

It happened in a really hot summer of August 2010.That day was a enrolling day of school and as usual,we would be separated to different classes when we were in Grade 2.I was so late that i hardly find the seat in my new class and ater looking around i finally found a seat which was behind a girl.

I was so unusual that day.In general,I was not a sociable person and not good at communicating with people but to my surprised ,i had a impulsion to talk with the girl and i hardly controlled my myself.That was so strange and never happen to me.I was wondering why and after a while I talked with her without hesitation.I asked her name and she turned to me and answered with a smile face,it was so sweet and i could even hear my heartbeat was accelerated in the unbelievable speed.I was kind of know that maybe i love this girl.She told me her name was HUANG HUANG .Autually i knew what did the name mean but i teased her and called  her "yellow yellow".It was Chinese words.Now when i was recalling that moment i knew she might think how stupid this guy was.-.-!!

Emma

I met my ex boyfriend last summer , in my city. It was the end of the afternoon, and I was walking with my bestfriend in a very quiet and for me the most beautiful place of my city. It was around the oldest monument my city has, a muraille from the middle ages my city conserves surronded by the fields. We were sitting against the wall in front of those fields and we usually see nobody there, but a guy just passed in front of us and I found that he has something very special, I was sure to have seen him somewhere else before but impossible to remember at this time. He saw that I was smoking and come to us, to finally ask me if I had a lighter, and of course I had. (smoking as his advantages mouahaha )  He smiled at me and finally end up to sit with us and talk for an hour. I discovered that he saw each other in a friend party two months ago and that i've already noticed him at this time. We had so much in commun and we talked and laught so much that i didn't see the night coming. My friend felt probably alone because we were mainly talking to each other, for me it was love at first sight :) It was a very simple meeting but at the end it shared the best moments of my life with Alex.

Nora

It was 4 years ago as i met a boy, who was into my little sister. Because she wasn't interested in him he was really upset. So he started to talk to me about her and his problems with the whole situation. This was the moment when we became friends.

We talked to each other for hours and met almost every day going out with friends or just sitting together. So we knew each other better and better every day. After weeks he realized that there was no chance to start a relationship to my sister and he started thinking about us being in a relationship.

When he decided to told me about his thoughts i was very confused because I never thought about us in this way and I was sure that you can't change your mind that easily. But after a few more weeks I finally said to him that we could try it.

It was only a short relationship, but it was a very nice time. Until now we are still good friends who are talking about everything.

All begann when I was about 5 years old. My parents who were constantly working during the weekdays couldn't take care of me. So they couldn't prepare my breakfast, drive me and pick me up when I begann school or stay with me the wenesday afternoon. Indeed I was spending the most of my time in my nanny's home which is as well the home where my sister grew up.
One thing that you have to know, it s that my nanny is the best, I wasn't missing my parents at all and I spent wonderful days with her and this for about 6 years

Anyway, I wasn't the only child that my nanny was taking care of.
For my part, I was always with the same boy who was as well in my school.
He was my favourite gamemate, and was doing absolutely all that I wanted.
We were always together, watching Sponge Bob or Power Randgers, sharing Kinder Surprise, traumatizing the cat of the neighbour, playing in the garden....
So, naturally we were madly in love and even organize a fake wedding with dress, fancy suit and photos as proofs.

Then, we grew up, entered in secondary school and begann to be less close.
We didn't need any more a nanny and as consequences, we saw each other less often.
Years after years, we saw each other less and less and it's now over one year that I didn't see him.
I'm always going to keep greats souvenirs of this time which was the most significant of my childhood.

Diego

Everything started when I was in my high school, when i was 15 or 16 years old. I was with my friends in Spanish class when i saw something written with blue ink down on my table. It was just an email but it caught my attention and i copy it in a piece of paper.

As soon as i arrived home, i added this person to my msn who casually was a girl. I was very curious about what was going to happend next, she was very interesting and we had a lot of things in common, the same likes, music, plans, etc.

After one or two months chatting we decided to meet in a shopping mall where there are cafes, restaurants, cinemas, etc. I didn't know a lot about her, which made me feel a bit afraid while i was going to our meeting, but in that moment i tried not to think about it, i just wanted to meet her and know how she was. When i arrived to the shopping centre she was there. She was not exactly how i had imagined, but i liked her as she was. That moment was very nice because we chated as if we were friends for a long time, which gave me security and made me feel safe.

Estefania

I am going to tell you the story about my first boyfriend. It was a great period of my life which I will never forget... I was finishing my tenth year of school, that is one before the last one, so I used to play basketball with my school team after the last class of the day. After two hours of being playing, I took the school bus to my home. One day, I realised that a guy used to get off the bus at the same place than me and I thought he realised about it as well.

Since that day I enjoyed more my trainning days, I knew that at the end of the afternoon I would be talking with that guy... during the time that we spent in the bus and then walking to home. I felt happy, but at the same time I felt sad because he was in his last year of school and I thought that we were not going to have time to share with each other. However, we started to talk during the break time and some days we met at the school restaurant, where we took our lunch and we really had funny moments.

Then, he invited me to the high school party and I was excited! I talked with my parents about that and they knew I was falling in love with that kind guy who always was taking care of me. The party was wonderful and that night we became boyfriend and girlfriend.

How did I met my exexex-girlfriend - Fernando

I was 16 years old when I met my first girlfriend. I was studying at highschool, which is in Campinas my home city, and she was 1 year younger than me with blond hair, nice body, beautiful smile and 1.60 of pure pleasure.
I was in love and I was going to do anything to have that girl, which never looked me before, when I thought the best way to know her is became friend of her group of friends, that wasn't so tough because we had some friends in common.
After met her I started to flame her passion and love with my romanticism, which is not so hard because I'm a romantic guy =), and when I got her attention for me I invited her to go to cinema with me, where is the best place to start a romance.
We went to watch a romantic comedy but the session was completely full so we watched a terror movie, which was good for me because she jumped into my arms afraid all those demons and me of course I took her into my arms and started a romance which I was dreaming .

Roberta

I stayed with my ex boyfriend for one year and a half. We first met four years ago, at our school, which we studied in the same class. In the begining I didn't pay much attention at him but he was in love with me, so he was always nice and kind.
He is a very intelligent person, who always trys to help. So, he did everything for me. He talked a lot with me and supported me due to the fact of I was living in a new city. I just moved for a new town and was living without my family, so he was a very important person for me. I just needed a real person who could be my friend. So, in a few months I was in love with him as well.
In the first months of our relationship everything was great. He always gave me flowers, which I think is so cute, and we studied together. He was very patient with me and was always trying to make me feel good. Actually he was like this in the whole time we were together, I was the bad person in the relationship..

Nowadays we are not together anymore but we are always in touch. He is a fantastic person who I want to have for a long time in my life.

Isabel

I was thirteen years old, he was the same age, and we were coming into the class where we had to share that whole course. The problem was that we were triying to get into the class at the same time and the door wasn't big enough for the two of us and our backpacks, wich was a problem. That was the best accident that I had that year. He was only thirteen, but he was a gentlemen. He said sorry and told me to get in first. I didn't expect that so my face turned red and got into the class. One of my best friends told me that she knew him because they were neighbourgs so, she was the one who introduced us to each other. We became friends as well, and spent the year with the rest of the girls and boys of the group, who finished notice that we had a different relation. I still remember the first time we went to watch a movie, and the moment when he tooked my hand wich was so tender and innocent.

Marie Nagura

I met my boyfriend in a shoe store, where he was working, on the first time. He was a shop assistance and I was just a customer. As soon as I saw him, I got to like him because I though his looking was ideal to me. Trying not to show my feeling and pretending to be cool, I asked him some questions about shoes and other things and had a small chat with him. Then I found that he was very nice, inside as well as outside. I eventually bought a pair of boots and left the shop. Because I couldn't forget him since then and wanted him to know even just my exsistence, I went there again the other day and took a big action. I gave him a paper, which I wrote my name, my text address and my phone number. I was too nervous to see even his face and ran away as soon as I gave the paper. As I was completely stranger to him, he was really surprised and it took some time for both of us to think about what was going on. But hopefully he texted me that day and finally I was able to be his girlfriend. This is all about how I met my boyfriend.

He-Man

When I was a kid, I always wanted to be a fireman. With so much adventure, fun and heroism involved, every kid wants that. We don't want to make money or be a master business man, we want to be super-heroes, and a famous soccer player would be nice though. We just want to have fun and chase after girls. Not to mention that you go full speed in that big red truck and the police cannot fine you. You're saving people's lives too, that is power fellas.

And then, came my grandmother and her old-school, ultra-protective advice. "Don't play with fire boy, otherwise you're gonna piss on your bed". Nobody wants to piss of in the pants or the bed. You become the mijao. And she destroyed my future succesfull career as a fireman.

Shan-Words that I remember

'If you really want something, you need to give all your efforts and tell yourself that it will be yours without doubts.' that's what my mum told me when I was small.

My mum is a great person. She has gone through many difficluties that I cannot even imagine.

When she was young, about high-school-age, there was the Chinese Revolution. Every youngster in the city had to leave school, go to the countryside and do farm work. It was really a tough work for those young people who were born and bred in the city and who had never done farm work ever. The most difficult thing is, they needed to get up at 5 o'clock every morning, keep working under the scorching sun till noon, and after eating some bread, they went back work again. When girls got there, almost everyone tried their best to avoid working. They pretended they were ill or took rest during the work when others didn't notice. Some girls even married to the local farmers so that they don't need to work anymore, but the fate for them was miserable: they would  never get the chance to go back to city again.

My mum, however, has made up her mind to go back to city and continue to stuy. So she worked very hard.
She was always the one who got up the earliest and worked till the latest. After a year, they could haveone person to go back to city, and because of the recommedation of the local farmers, my mum managed to go back and she was the only one who went back so early.

I asked her why she worked so hard. She said, 'I knew that going back was the only chance I had, so I told myslef to give all my effort and I had to be the one who went back earliest.'

Walter

Due to the word from my Dad,my life has changed.

I remembered i was a sociable person when i was in high scool ,i had a lot of friends and i was proud   of that.I did everything successfully with my friends and when i was in trouble my friends would help me overcome it.It all seems like i was a successful person and a little bit conceit.

One day my dad said he had something to tell me when i lived in my  "perfect"  life.He said "you seems like doing everything you want to do successfully but have you ever thought about it,you succeed is built upon the  foundation  of your friends.If you  lose all your friends or your freinds cheat you one day,what do you think your world will  be changed  like?You can't always accept the help from your friends,you need  independance ."

Yes, i realized   that i was wrong.My dad's wold has changed my life.Thanks for him and     i   am in the right way now.

Natasha-The biggest word that I remembered

As I was growing up I was the smartest girl in my family,everybody was surround me,my parents were buying me everything that I needed,In one word my personal fulfilment were above all but I was not spoilt child. As time was passing I impaired.I was not realy good student,they become so disappointed from my educational score in primary school, but were right because,I did not study a lot,and my teacher was always complaining on me.
Everything occurred very simply,one beautiful morning my father  said:''You need to turn up your bad signs'' I was so confused I didn't know what he is talking about,afterwords he explained to me that the the most significant thing that he wanted from me was to be a good student,and succeed good career in my future.He wanted to send me overseas to study at dental technician University.
Firstly I did not want because,I wanted to be a boxer and continue my career with that,but after I realised that I can be boxer in anytime,I can exercise in my free time,but University I can't I need many years to became a Dentist.
Consequently,I just agreed with that and look at me now I'm in Australia studying good,without any problems.
To sum up, In my brain I will always remember the expression from my father.

Diego !!! i love my country!!!

Colombia is not a poor country...

When i was in Colombia, i used to work for a charity. I worked during 6 months in which i learnt a lot of things that changed my mind, it helped me to change my point of view of poorness and also it helped me to reforce the love that i feel for my country, Colombia!

During the first week of my beginning i satarted to see a lot of phrases on the flyers and posts that we had and always i saw  a sentence that i won't forget in my whole life. Before i complete the sentence, i would like to say that Colombia could be one of the best countries in the world, we have one of the vastest and amazing divercity, beautiful fauna and flora, different kind of food every 2 hours in the different regions, different kinds of music that you can listen or dance as well if you want, the most beautiful people that always are waiting for you with a big smile and off course the most beautiful coasts!!!

For all the reasons above, i could say that this phrase could change in the future!

                                           ..., it is an unfair one!

Marcos

When I was a child my mom told me "Please Marcos my son, don't talk with strangers", since I did not obey this sentence, my life has been a torture. At the beginning I didn't realise about the real consequences about disobeying this important sentence. The first time I talked with a stranger was when I was 2 years old. I met one girl at the kinder garden, and we started a wonderful relationship, but obviously it wasn't long. At the age of 3 we moved to another country and I couldn't stop thinking about my love of 2 years old.

 After a while, when i was 15, it happened again! I started to talk with people at the highschool. Then, I made more and more friends and worse than that: I STARTED TO HAVE FUN. It began with " Come on, let's go out this friday" but it didn't finish there. Next weekend we went out on friday and Saturday and then also  on thursdays. It became really difficult to stay awake every day at the college, and when I say difficult I mean "really difficult". Then at the age of 18 I moved to another city to start the uni, and by this time I thought that it was going to be better for me, but guess what...I talked with another stranger and the parties started again... It has been 23 years since my mother tried to transfer me all her knowledge with this sentence, and also 23 years of suffering...So i would like to say to my mother, "Mom i wouldn't have disobeyed you".

Words I remember (Solene)

To be honest, I have really no inspiration about words that people said me and are, since, keeping in my mind. I don' t know if it's that anything that I heard wasn't enough worthy to be remembered , that I didn't pay enough attention or only that I m still not totally awake . I would rather say the second or the third option.
Anyway, if I can't remind me any saying words which really touched me, nevertheless, I can remind me some words that I read in some books and that really make me think.
"It s when you think to know all that you stop learning". This quote comes from a book of Pierre Bottero, a fantasy writter in one of his book Elana.
I really like this sentence because, in addition of the first meaning ; never think that you have nothing else to learn from people or from the life by herself, that means for me that you always have more to learn.
The world is full of opportunities to always discover new things. The only limit which could stop you is the one that you build by yourself.

Lucy - Words I Remember

My relationship with my parents has been a honest and very friendly relationship, I tell my parents almost everything that happens to me, I ask them anything I need to know, and they answer it sincerely.  My parents always have gave me pieces of advices due to the fact they wish that I was a wise and an independent women. There was one time my fater told me this words " Honey, you shouldn't trust anybody, even in your father". I was a little bit shoked, because my father is the best in the world for me, and they with my mom are my best friends. What my father suggested with those words was that I can't trust anybody, becouse at the end everybody makes you disapointed any time, with anything. 
my father's argument has been in my mind always; when I realise it, it's true everybidy at any time makes you disapointed I knew it through the course of my life.   

Roberta

It may sounds silly, but I've always heard people saying that we can have anything we really want to, anything we put an effort to get it. The first time I tried to get something that people thought impossible I really believed that I could get it and I got it!
Some years ago, my dream was to work at DisneyWorld. I needed to do some interviews and pay for the flight ticket and a lot of fees and taxes. It wasn't easy but I got it. I did an International College Program and worked and lived there for three months. Many people didn't believe that I could do this just by myself because I've always been very close to my family and shy. However it was easy, the best three months ever!
The same happened some months ago. I wanted to improve my English, so I decided to travel to study it in a English speaking country. I chose to come to Australia to stay for six months. My family and friends didn't believed again that I could do it just because I'm still very shy and they think I can't handle things by myself. And here I am! Three months later I think I'm doing pretty well. I'm studying and working, of course my father is helping me with some bills, but a part from that I do everything just by myself. I live with four korean people which makes everything a little more difficult since we have very different cultures, but I learn a lot with them, now I can realize how different people are, how cultures can be so different from each other...
I still have more three months here in Australia and maybe I will extend my Visa, I feel I still can learn lots of things and since I am on the other side of the world why not enjoy it as much as I can?
If I see it will be very important to me I am absolutely sure that I can do it!

Estefania

About three years ago I heard some words that I kept in my mind until now and I think these words are going to stay with me forever. It was a hard university year, I was completely busy with a lot of exams and homework and I didn't know how to organize my time. At the end of the year I was really worried about my grades and it made me feel ill.

All my family saw me tired and stressed, so one day, my mother talked seriously with me and told me something like that: "It's good that you are interested in getting excellent grades, however, the most important thing in the academic aspect is to know that you are really learning and improving with the time, besides, life is not only study, you could enjoy other things, sharing time with your family, your friends and doing what you like in your free time! If you organize your time and you know what you want, you will get it with effort and you will feel satisfied in all the life aspects" When I herad those words I felt shocked because I knew that since that moment my thought about my life was going to change.

I can say today that those words definetily changed my point of view about the objectives that I had to my life. Nowadays I know how to enjoy the nice things without forget my responsabilities

Vianny

When i was a child my mom always encourage me to study so hard and to be a good student, because she wanted that her children became a good professionals. Even though, she knew that we will have a lot of hurdles in our life to get that goal.

One day, when i couldn't achieve a good marks in an important exam in the school, she told me that "i have to work constantly for i want because sometimes happiness can't get it". It has been the best advise that my mom have given me. I think i have used it since i heard it, because sometimes i have had to work so hard and constantly in my goals to get it, but others i have been lucky and the destiny has helped me to get it easily.

Anyway, I've always remember that moment, because i think that whatever our parents say us is an excellent advice for our live, they have the enough aorguments to guide us on the road of life. 

isabel

Virgen de Loreto was the name of my primary school. I have great memories of those years, and specially of one teacher. He used to teach us Lenguage, English and Catalan. At that age i remember i wanted to be a journalist, so reading and writing were my hobbies. I never thought i was very good at writing, but i liked to use my imagination for writing different stories. Javier, wich was the name of the teacher, used to give us a lot of homework about writing stories, and reading books in every subject. I really enjoyed his classes.
He was my teacher the last three years on primary school, and i still remember something that he said to me one day when the class was finished, after he gave us the results of a Lenguage exam. 'You could be a great journalist'. I stared at him for a moment and then i smiled and said thanks. When i left the class i felt happy because i never mention my interest in journalism to him. I was very proud of myself, 'you're doing it well isabel' i thought. A pitty that mathes were crossed in the way, they were probbably the responsible that i quited, maybe i was too young to accept that if i wanted something, no matter how hard it was, there were no enough excuses in no trying. That was a lesson of life.   

Words that I (don't really) remember , Emma

During my last year of high School, I had to make important decisions for myself, but some people like my teachers, parents, friends tried to help me to find my way. In efect i didn't really know if I would like to go abroad as I dreamed to go years ago , start a licence of Sociology or an intense preparation of Litterature. It was a really difficult dilemma, do what i dreamed to and start well in the postgraduated progamms that could promise me a good future, but all my days would be define as 'work,work,eat,work,sleep, and that for 3years. You don't have time for your hobbies,but you learn a lot, you just don't have a lot of free time anymore.
My teachers told me that I had to go at this intense prepa , most of my friends agreed and my parents as well. But i knew that it wasn't what i really wanted .. I was really confused..So I went to see my best friend who knows me more than everyone , he listened to me explaining him all my doubts and he finally said to me : " All the choices you make define who you are. Choose the best for you, do what you like and love what you do. But still do your best, i don't want you to screw up!!! ahahaa "
We laught and i felt better. And finally i'm sure that i've made the best decision, that's why i'm here!! :)

Words I remember

The words that I'll remember until the end of my life are the words which my mom said me when I was a teenager.
That time I was a fool trying to enjoy my life on the maximum and by friends influence I started to drink, smoke and go out on nightlife a lot. Consequently I started to get low results on school, miss some classes of  sports that I used to practice. Suddendly my life was ruinning and I didn't notice that because of the happiness that I thought I was feeling but my mom with her sisth sense notice that and came talk to me.
She said "Life is not made only by happiness moments, sometimes you have to stop, maybe even be sad, and start to understand your life and get some lessons of that, this will bring you inteligence and made you a person with some content".

Nora - Words I Remember

In my first grade my class had to learn some mathematical things and our teacher wanted to test us. I was really unsafe and for this reason I cheated. After a few minutes my teacher stood right behind me and said 'Nora, I'm really upset. You have to now this by heart and I don't want you to cheat!'

I was really shy in my childhood and the worst that could happen to me was disappointing a person of respect. Up until then, this moment was the most embarrasing situation that ever happend to me.

After this happend I never dared to cheat again in school.

Lucy - The most Embarrasing moment in my Life

Those moments when you wished you had been invisible due to something embarrasing happened to you, which thankfully have been few in my life, although they were so much funny, they were the worse moments in my life.
I will talk about once that was the worse ( the much worse). It was in high school. I always studied in boys-girls school, once there was sort a conferece that everybody had to go, all teachers, all students, administrative people, we all were in the Auditorium my class was the last class to be there, therefore everybody was sat and we were walking to get our seats, when suddenly I really don't know what happened with my feet, but I fell down by the stairs (just like in the movies). I got to the center of the Auditorium rolling. Of course everybody saw me, and obviously everybody was laughing.
I standed up and I was laughing too, because I didn't want to show that I was embarrased. but in the deep I wanted to cry!!  

Shan-advice

It's not unusual that a husband still keeps in touch with his former wife becuase they'd been living together for 22 years, they have feeling for each other, they have memories of their life, they have their own children so their connection with each other is hard to break. In spite of all these, I think that the behaviour of him shows that he's not ready for you and wants to start a new life with you as their relationship is too close now and his behaviours might indicate his wife that she still have a chance.

However, your husband may be not aware of this. He's still living in the past and helping his former life is just a habbit. In my opinion, the best solusion is to talk to your husband as well as his ex-wife.

To your husband, you should make it clear that his condition now (still lives in his past) is not what you expected and this makes you uncomfortable. You should express your concern that you don't know he can come out of the shadow of his ex-wife or not.  You've sacrificed a lot to marry a man who had already have a 22-year marriage, I am sure that it was a tough decison and if you didn't really love him you won't marry him.I think you should let him know how much sacrifaction you'd made to marry him and how much you want a happy life with him.

To your husband ex-wife, you should told her that her frequent contact with your husband has a bad influence on your nomal life. You should warn her not to interrupt your life again.

Vianny

You should not be jealous about his ex-wife, but you have to be sure about his feelings and your relationship with the man, because it's important to know what do you want in the moment. I mean that you have to be clear and open with your partner, establish some conditions in the relationship to feel confortable and confident about it.

You also have to understand that he had some responsibilities that he got in the past, he still has to attend in the present, so, he is going to share with his first family despite they are not together all the time. But it doesn't mean that he has to be with them all the time with them. He has to know that he has two families at the same time, he has to distribut the time between both of them.

Finally i agree to accept that each person of the relationship has his/her space to share with other people, because you need opportunitie to share with other people that you love, it probably won't allow you are bored about the monotony of the relationship.

Estefania

I would recommend she talk with him and have a honest conversation where she could tell him all her feelings about the situation. By this way, she could know what she really feels and what she is going to do to feel herself better.

If he is going to be honest in that conversation, he is going to tell her what he really wants. The relationship is between both of them, therefore I consider they have to agree in the decision that they are going to make. I would suggest she think in herself and show him her own points of view. If he is interested in the relationship, he will probably change some things with his ex-wife and it would improve the atmosphere. On the other hand, if he thinks he is doing right things and he doesn't agree with changing what he is doing at the present time with his ex-wife, she must look for a quiet life where she could be without worries and unsafe

Anyway, I think she has to learn from the situation and enjoy the life. She knew the previous man status so she could think what was going to happen with his last relationship. In my opinion, she could do things that make her feel happy and she must look for antoher man if she wants to start again another relationship.

Walter

Why are they having this kind of relationship?Why are they keeping in touch so frequently?Why can't they forget each other and start their own new lives?I guess the reason  they divorced  wasn't because they didn't love each other,but because something forced them to divorce and they got no choice.

The advices I'd like to give them are:

1. I think they are an unfortune couple and they love each other,and it's also easy to understand why they did that even  they divorced ,but the man wasn't give much concern about his girlfriend feeling.What i really want to say is the man should take care of his girlfriends feeling.This is the responsibility of the man

2.This man should keep a propriate distance with his fomer wife it's not only for his girlfriend but also his fomer wife's patner.

Isabel

Well, the first question is, do you really trust him?, because I think that could be the problem. You relationship didn't start very well. He was married, you got in the middle of his relationship, so maybe you think he can do it again, why not? he did it once!. About his ex-wife, what do you want me to say? why don't you try to put yourself into her place?, be the friend of the woman who stole the father of her children?, of course she doesn't want your relationship to succeed. Maybe their marriage was over when you met him, but I think it's the normal reaction, she will never be your friend. Anyway they have two children in common, so they have to care about them "together", take decissions "together", and spend time "together", wich I think it's not the point here. The problem it's not the time he spends with his ex-wife and children, that was the backpacket he came with when you met him, and as you say, it's not the time he spends with you, soy maybe the real problem is "you". If you have started weighting all those things is because this is the begining of the end. Think about it.

Marcos

After reading your post I was in shock, how can you let them do that? Firstly, I would recommend you to be a little bit selfish and start thinking about yourself. With this I mean that despite the situation can be confusing, you should try to speak with your partner and, as long as you can, try to drive him to think about how it would be the oposite situation.

Moreover, if this doesn't work, you should try the second stage of the solution. This might be more dramatic, so, take a seat. Propose your partner to move to another city, state or country ( If you consider it necessary ). This should be useful in the way that you are going to separate them and, as you know, long distances makes everything colder.

If you are reading this paragraph is because none of the previous advices work. Don't worry about that, we need to start the third stage, are you ready?. You should start to make a new and very close friend to try to make him jealous. Doing this, you should have two different reactions:
-The first could be the easiest one, he realise about your situation and start changing his relationship.
-The second might be that you start feeling something for the new guy.

Finally, the last option that you can try if all of these advices didn't work, is to start thinking about leaving your partner and falling in love with  the new guy that you should have met if you had followed the THIRD stage.

I hope you could take advantage of my advices. I look forward to hearing about you.

;D

Nora

I can totally understand your problem with the situation, but it's not unusual to keep in touch with your former relationship. So maybe you should talk to him and tell him why you have such a big problem with his wife and him meeting each other. If you only think about it and just being jealous and petty he might think you're clinging too hard.
You have to show him, that his relationship is okay for you and you only don't want to lose him. I guess if you'll do that he is able to understand you and may have less contact to his former wife.

Emma

I can understand the situation can be confusing for you, in on hand it could mean that your husband is a very attentive person who doesn't let go people he loved for a long time, but in an other hand you seeing him keep in touch with his ex wife put you in a difficult situation. Did you talk to him about how you feel about it? I think that you need to be reassured , and my advice will be ; don't worry too much. At least he doesn't hide it from you!
Just be aware of what is going on, and try to keep an eye on their relationship.

I think that the situation had been difficult for him too. He took a huge decision that marked a turning point in his sentimental life. He chose you. It won't help your relationship to be jealous, after all he's sharing most of his time with you :) and if his ex wife found a new boyfriend, that's a good news ;) watch it!! Let the time do his work and you'll see that they will be less and less close as he's offering himself to you. He has to get used to new habits, new place to live, new life, but don't feel guilty, he was looking for it!!

Level 6/7 Task

Read this person's problem below.  Make some guesses about their past and then give them some advice.

Two years ago, my man left his 22-year marriage to be with me, but he told me he loved his former wife and would always want a friendship with her. I accepted that (I'm friends with my ex), but I'm bothered by the amount of contact they have. They do have two adult children and own property together. But, although she's living with a new partner, she sometimes wants to borrow his car, have him pick up the dogs, or drop off some paperwork. They phone about every other day, and not a week goes by without his stopping over -- occasionally for a family dinner. I get plenty of his time, energy and affection, and I know their relationship isn't romantic. The issue is split loyalty -- all the effort he's putting into remaining "loving friends" with a woman who'd love to see our relationship fail. Am I being petty and jealous? It feels like she's clinging hard -- and so is he.

Walter

Autually,i  have not had any interesting experience about meeting a stranger .I  can just think about the funny and embarassing experience when i was in  high school.

That was a cold winter morning  ,i was so hungry that i went to canteen and tried to buy something to eat.I was not sure if there was any food left because  the class was started and  no one in the canteen at the time .Fortunately,the staff was there and i bought some  bread and a cup of hot milk and when i was walking out sunddenly i saw a bird flew into the canteen and i heard someone spoke to me" please close the door girl i  was gonna to catch the bird"  OMG,the lady thought that i was a girl and why?"Did i look like a girl "i ask myself,at the moment i denyed this ridiculous thought and i turned to this lady and told her i was a boy  and then i left.

I could not believe what had happened next.After school i went to the canteen to buy my lunch and when i was thinking what i would like to buy i heard someone said,"what would you like girl?".When i raised my head,OMG,the same lady!!!

D !! ... The interesting stranger

I was walking just beside my uni along a very common street when a pauper came toward me asking for some money. The guy was an old man, wearing old and dirty clothes and he had some dust on his face. But something was strange, he didn't smell as bad as everyone of us have thought that a guy like this does.  In this moment i didn't feel afraid because i was near my uni so it was not very bad.

I don't know why but the only thing that came to my mind instead of give him money was "I want to give him something different". In this momment i asked him if he was hungry and i invited him to have something to eat with me. We went to a small trolly on the street that sold different things, i said to the man "what would you like for today?" the guy just asked for a "arepa" something very common in my country. I ordered the same as him and i try to start a conversation but he was very quiet, maybe because no one had had this intention with him before or maybe beacuse he was waiting the money in order to buy drugs or alcohol, i never knew it. But maybe, just maybe, his thought about society changed in this momment, or maybe he try to be a better person, i dont know.

We don't stop to think very often about what actions or behaviours we have in our lifes that could influence in others' life. Even saying "hello" or "thanks" to the person who clean your house, office, school, whatever; im sure that this person is going to have a motive to be happy that day.

Think about it !!

Vianny

I used to travel once a month from Bogota to Bucaramanga, my home city, so i had to spend a lot of time traveling by bus when the flight tickets were expensive, it took around 8 hours. But i'm going to talk about a time when i traveled by plane, the journey was just one hour long. I met a interesting busisness man who started a conversation about the inconvenience that we were having in Bogota's airport, the flight was delayed around 3 hours. We started to talk about the bad customer services that the air company.

After that we were to the cafe to drink a delicious colombian coffe, because it was late in the night, it was so cold and  i was really hungry. It was so interesting to me. When you travel by plane on friday's night from de Capital you usually meet people from the same city where you are traveling, but this person was different, he was from Medellin (It is the second important city in Colombia). People from this city usually are so kind and they love to speak too much which everyone.

We talked about the experience to live in different cities, our personal life, our work and obiously about the beaty of Bucaramanga and the reasons why he loved to visit that city.

Hanh

When I was waiting for my friend in the park at my school I met one guy who I had never met before but he smiled at me and asked me that what I was doing here. Because I was in the first year at school and everything was new to me. He and I talked a lot about shool and our lives. But I didn't understand what he was saying..... After that, he relalised that I was not his friend...... and I felt very funny and then we had never talk together again even we saw each other everyday.

Once day, my parents' best friend invited me to come to his house for dinner. When I arrvied I was surprised because I met him again.

isabel

There I was, seated in a bus, ready to go to Salamanca, a beautiful city 300 kilometres away from Madrid.
One of my friends invited me to spend the weekend so i could visit the city. It seemed like a good plan. Seated next to me was that strange girl, she was looking at me as she was asking herself why i was travelling, so i asked first,
'Hi, my name is isabel, and yours?'
She stared at me surprised, maybe thinking that i was reading her mind.
'Hi, i am Lourdes'
'Seems like we are going to spend a few hours together. I am going to spend the weekend with a friend that lives in Salamanca, to visit the city, and have some fun. What about you? do you live in Salamanca or you are going just to spend the weekend?'
She smiled, was a beautiful smile, a smile of hope, maybe?, and she told me her story.
'Well, it is a strange story, but i think we are going to have enough time.
My father was a farmer, and my mother used to stay at home, making house working all day. I was born with a heart problem, so my parents had to made an effort to raised me up. They didn't have enough money, so they had to ask for a loan in order to have the better doctors and the best treatments. The first two years were the worst of all, going from doctor to doctor, city to city, trying to find someone who could gave them some hope to save that little girl full of life. After a long search they found him, a doctor that was making some new studies about the illness that was killing me. My parents talked to him

Sohyun

I went to Fremantle with my husband about 4 months ago. While we were looking for parking space, a woman came to our car and knocked on our car window. She told us " If you want it, i will give you"
My husband took it and said thank you.  We realised that it was an allday parking ticket.
After traveling we left the parking place, we saw a car that was coming to parking space. We decided to give them this ticket. They said Thank you. We met a stranger and we got to be a stranger who enabled to park free.

Estefania

About three years ago, I met an interesting stranger, really nowadays he is one of my best friends. I knew that he studied pharmacy as well, but he began his studies six months later than me. Nodody had told me about him, none of my friends was friend of him and we didn't have the same subjects, therefore we hadn't never had opportunity to meet.

One day, I was looking for my classroom and I saw him just in front of my classroom door, then I asked him about his classroom. He was a little confused because he wasn't on the correct floor of the building. I told him where he could find his classroom, however, we had twenty minutes to talk before our classes start, so we began to talk about our university and our studies. We realized that we had a lot of things in common.

After that, we saw each other between the classes and suddenly my friends became his friends, and at the same time his friends became my friends. We enjoyed sharing time together and we made parties and different activities where we could get to know better all the people.

I think it was a good way to know a stranger because in spite of the fact that we weren't in the same semester, we could help each other in academic aspects and we also

Diego Cordovez

Once, when  i was in a running race, i met a man who was competiting in the longest distance which was 21 kilometers. He was around his 80 years old, looked old and peaceful and not very competitive, but you could see the pasion that he had about running.

During the race he always held a relax pace, but never gave up. With a big smile from ear to ear, he finished the race.

Recovering the breath after the tough 21 Km, this man was been admired by everybody else; after a while i had the opportunity to meet him and listen part of his history.

Hearing him, was such a motivational moment; he had run several full Iron Man Triathlons during his life and had never given up his pasion about this sport. This man had had the best moments of his life running triathlons around the world, winning lot of times in his category.

His words were full of knowledge and "wise?"(when someone has a lot of knowledgment after many years of experience). Seeing him was inspiring.

Marcos

It was one day the last winter. It was really cold in that mountain at 8.00 am. My brother and I went to ride the bike as we used to do every Saturday morning, then we met one guy climbing the same mountain but he was doing that on foot and without t-shirt, which was certainly unusual. He stopped us to ask for a bit of water and we gave to him without hesitation.

When he finished drinking, he started to tell us that he had started to run every morning in that mountain many years ago while he had been fighting in the national war, and his training was basically this exercise every morning, even if the day was really cold. We started to think, "This guy must to be crazy", but after a few minutes talking, I think the guy realised that we were thinking that and he started to show us trenches and gun places hidden in the middle of the forrest. It was really interesting to find out that despite that we had been riding our bikes there every weekend we had never noticed those historic places. After that we realised that the appearance sometimes gives you a wrong idea of the person appearances are deceiving.

Also, we understood the war changes everyone's life, driving ourselves to a kind of crazyness.

Hanh

Last weekend, I had received messeges from my friend that made me annoyed. My friend wrote to me with angry words and she told me that I had asked something silly and difficult to ansewer.  I thought that weren't my questions but  she didn't want to talk anymore. Because I asked her about her permission to go to Philipine and her family.....

After I had read that I wondered what was happing for my  friend? I didn't write anything to her....I'm wating for her to say something else.

Walter

This week everything has been going  well except one thing which really annoyed me.Ok, here is the thing , i have been in Perth for 4 months and I am going to learn Foundation in Canning College .My agent told me i have to take the IELTS exam so that i can go to this college and maybe the exam will start in May.I study and study everyday  and recently i heard a lot of suggestion from my friends which were to take the entrance exam of canning college  to enter this college.I was confused and i went to the front desk of PICE and asked the staff was that  true if  i just had to take the entrance exam and she said yes!I felt annoyed at the moment . I called my angent immediately and asked her with the furious voice why she didn't tell me about that.At last she told me i could  take the entrance exam.That is it, i think her intention is just for money.

Estefania

Really I have had a good week, but if I have to talk about something that has annoyed me this week, I will tell you that the weather has been a little bit inconsistent for me. I like the sunny days but I consider that the temperature has been so high last three days. By the way, when I arrive home, I feel extremely tired because of the heat.

In my city I used to wear sweaters and jumpers everyday, now I'm getting used to wear different clothes here. At the begining, three weeks ago, I liked the weather because I thought it would be different to my current life, but this week I have missed the low and intermediate temperatures where I felt better, where I could walk in the streets without being desperate for just one reason: the sun on my face.

In spite of this fact, I can see the hot days in a positive way. Perhaps, next weekend I'm going to the beach, so I think this is an amazing opportunity nowadays, later I could want to go there and the winter wouldn't be a perfect season to enjoy these kind of things.

Anyway, I hope next days the temperature gets lower, but not so low that I can go out

Diego - Something that annoyed me this week

Earlier in this week, after i finished my work at 11 pm i had an annoying moment. Since the last friday the Clarkson train line was been repaired, so transperth pasted an information chart at the entrance of the train station saying that there were bus train replacements after 8 pm. On Monday or Tuesday i finished my work and as usually i went walking to the train station and saw the information chart that i always check, that day the bus train replacement were still announced. I went to the bus stop an wait for the bus, but that day the bus didn't arrive on time, so i kept waiting and few minutes later i heard the train. I couldn't believe that the train was running and no body took out the paper from the information chart. So i missed the train and i didn;t have bus.... was 11:30 pm, i was exhausted and had to get home to cook my dinner, cook my lunch for the next day, do my homework and off course wake up early to go to school.

For my that was annoying because at nights i have just a few bus options, the number of buses to go to my house is small. So i have to be always aware of the timetable and be very carefull if i don't want to sleep on the streets.


Anyway...sometimes is difficult to agree with everybody or everything, but it's important try to see the things from different sides and try to get something from that experiences that can allows you to improve.

Vianny

I usually work at nights, it's quite hard, because at the end of the day i'm so tired and i don't want to do anyhing. But this week my supervisor has been cheking my work everyday at the end of my shift. Unfortunately he found a simple mistakes in it, and he told me that i have to do extra task before going home. I don't know what happen with him this week, but i would like to kill him when he complained about my work. He should check it early in the night, not at the end of my shift, because if i finish late my work the company is not going to pay me extra time.

This situation annoys me too much, because i usually have to run to catch the train at 8:45, that means i have to finish my work at least at 8:30 then i have to walk so fast to the train station. But this week i've finished 10 minutes after than usual, so i've run everyday to catch the train and that make me fell exhausted every night. However when i arrive home i just think in relax and cook my lunch and dinner, so i forgot my bad moment.  

DIEGO SALAZAR

I've been studying in PICE for almost 9 months already and three weeks ago i decided to take my "holidays" in order to work full time and safe some money to travel at the end of my course.

The way that I found this job was the funniest way you could imagine. One night I was drinking some beers with a friend just beside the river, we were catching up on what had happened during that week because she was not studying in the same school as me, so it was difficult to see each other during the weekdays. After a while we were walking on the streets singing colombian songs, it was very funny, everyone were watching us and thinking, what's wrong with these guys?. The night was very hot, the temperature was 35 degrees i think but  we didn't mind it was the perfect ocation to scape of all the stress that the job and the school produced in us. Being in front of the train station, a guy came to us and said that we sang very well. After a minute we were chatting and he asked, 'Are you looking for a job?' it was perfect because i would be able to take my holidays and work full time, it was fantastic!.  At the end this guy said that he was the chef of the C restaurant and he was looking for someone who helped him in the kitchen, he said it was a very hard work but it was good payed.

One week after i was working there, i met all the crew and the place. When i started i thought it was amazing, i would learn how to cook special things and i would get some money. The first two days were good, with some problems to understand but it was great.

Sohyun

My husband had been a  nonsmoker, actually he was before i found cigarrets in his poket.
When i saw it, i thought that it wasn't his. I wanted to destroy them but i decided to wait for him.
I wondered why he had started to smoke and form when.
He came back home and i asked him. He told that he had started just a few days ago and this was the fist and last one.
I want to believe what he told.  

isabel

Somenthing annoying that happened to me a couple of days ago was that one of my brothers sent me an
e-mail because he wanted to know if the tickets for his holidays were confirm. The fact was that before I came to Perth, I asked for some tickets to my brother and two friends to travel from Madrid to Punta Cana.
There was supposed to be no problem with that, but one month before, the company changed the way
of booking tickets and there was not a note comunicating that fact. When I sent a mail to the company to confirm the tickets they told me they had no information about them, and that I had to make the booking again.I was annoyed with the fact that nobody had e-mailed that information because now I have no access to the company's system for doing that, and yesterday I had to ask a workmate to do it for me because they have to travel next sunday and the booking department needs at least four days to confirm the tickets, what means that maybe they could have a problem with their holidays. 

Emma - Stg that annoyed me this week

I used to Skype my family as much as I could since I arrived in Perth,especially my mother because we are very close. But on Monday , when I Skyped her , i saw my grandmother on the screen (you have to know that my father,mother,grandmother and oncle are working together).

So it was at work, and she didn't look good. She learned that i've found a job as a cleaner and saw some pictures of me partying on facebook via my little brother (i don't know how she did it..) In brief , we spent one hour arguing about my job and lifestyle ; "You can find a better job ! I saw you in picture with a glass of alcohol ! I don't understand you're generation etc... " I explained her that everything was ok, that the money i'm earning is enought for now and that my lifestyle is normal for any people of 19. The day after i sent her an email and fortunatly it's better now.

Sohyun

I like reading science fiction novels. . One of these kinds book is Le Papillon Desetoiles. This book's story is travelling university and finding a new earth.

Scientists had found the new earth, but it is far form the earth. it takes severl hundreds years so, the new earth project company found people who will go to the new earth. These people had to be healthy of  body and mind. A Ship, which the people got on, is  called Papillon which means  a bufferfly.
while they are treavellig, a lots of things happened, like human's history.

Can they arrive at the new earth? If you wonder, you should read this book. you can enjoy.

Walter

Today i will tell you the best novel i have ever read.It is a Chinese novel  and i read it when i was a high school student.The  novel just has its own Chinese book name so that i don't know how to translate it.The story in this book is about the history of China.Even though it is a novel it bases on the real story and add some imagination about the writer's opinions.

The story  set in China  2000 years ago,the dynasty what we called Qin dynasty.The emperor named Qin Sihuang  was a very successful  emperor and he won a lot of battles and unified the whole ancient China.But meanwhile,he was an extremly cruel emperor at the time.He ordered the majority of men  in China to buill The Great Wall and during that time most of Chinese were like live in a hell and most men were dead.The Great Wall became a miracla

I like this book because i can learn a lot of history about ancient China and it is not like a normal history book boring.

Hanh

I have read some interseting books but the best book I like that talks about a women during the Vietnamese War.

A couple was living in the war so the husbands had to go to the army and the women stayed at home to take care the parents and children. During the war, the husband visited his house for sreval times after that he didn't visit anymore because the war was more dangerous. At that time, the wife wondered to hear the news from the husband. Some times she heard he was well and changed the place to live.

When the war was finish evry one came back their houses but she didn't see her husband. Day by day she carried the baby who was his son to wait for the father.

Alex - Tell us about the best novel you have ever read.What was the story, what did you like it?

One of the best novels i had ever read is about one kid who grew up in a very hard time ( The World War 2 ).The kid was a courier for the Partizani army in Serbia, and every day he was in a dangerous situations, beacause he was the only kid from his vilage who was suppose to take a letter from one place, and to take in a other.
Everybody heard how was the life in that time...He was only 15, but he had a lion heart, and everybody was pleassed with him for the big job he did every day!His mother was afraid every day for him, but she knew that is his job, and must to be like that.
One day on his way in the forest, he was cought by the Germans.He suffered a lot, but never sad anything about the Partizani.When Germans saw that they will never take some information from him, they killed him!

After his dead the Partizani started to sing songs about him, and his brave spirit !!!

The best novel-Isabel Rodriguez

Time between cross stitchs

The story of a woman who grows up in a family with an embroider mother and no father in time of war.
Her mother teaches her the art of cross stitchs because the family needed the money. When she grows up, she mets a man who is going to make her discover a completely different life. Money starts to be part of her life, parties, and finally a big tryp. He offers her a life in Morocco, a new great life, a dream to her. Believing in him, she left her city, her country, and her mother. After a few weeks of living what she touhgt it was going to be the rest of her life, one day she wakes up with no man, no money, and a lot of bills to pay.
He just went away, not even a letter to explain his reasons. Shocked by the situation, and she gets arrested by the police. Weeks later, after the investigation, the police chief releases her under the promise of not leaving Morocco. Alone, with nothing more than her clothes, she starts what definetly was going to be her life. Starting from zero, crossing stitchs makes her one of the biggest and famous embroiders aroung Morocco.

Juliane

The best novel I ever read was "The white Massai". This novel is about a woman from Switzerland, who was on holiday with her husband in Africa.

As they were sitting in one beach bar, she saw an African man and was extremely fascinated with him. From this moment on she have to think about him every day and could not forget him - even not back in Switzerland. So she decided to travel back to Africa a few months later. In Africa she saw him again and fell in love with him, although they could not understand him, because he spoke only a few words English.

After her holiday ended, she moved to Africa to live together with him and his family. They marriaged and finally she get pregnant of him. But the life in the African desert was very hard for her with a little baby. They have not enough to eat and to drink as well as medicine. Also, it was very hard for her to have nobody she could really speak to. The relationship to her husband changed and was very difficult. One day she decided to went back to Africa to secure the healthy of her daughter. Her husband was very angry about it, so she had to travel outside the land without his knowledge.

Many years later she traveled to Africa to visited her ex-husband there. Today they have a very good, friendly-based relationship and she support her ex-husband and his family with money, which she send everz month to Africa to makes life easier for them in the hard desert.

Diego

One of the best novels i have ever read is called The Notebook. It was based on a movie but like in the majority of the cases, books are much better than the movies.This novel is about the story of a man (Ethan) who was lower class in the society and one day met a upper class woman. She was absolutly beautiful and since the beganing the had a good feeling between each other.

The man used to live in a town with his parents and he was a labor worker. One day, while he was working in the mines, he saw that beatiful woman surounded by business and wealthy men. That wasn't a impediment for him to wants meet her, also was a bigger challenge in wihich he didn't saw any inconvenient at the moment.

The woman was in the town just for holidays, so she usually use to walk on the city streets going for shoping and that kind of stuff that girls like, but the important thing is that in an afternoon the man bump into this girl and had the opportunity to talked to her.

Since that day, they started to went out which just increase the feelings and the love between each other stared to born. All the time that she was in the town they were together. That love was clandestine because she had a fionce in her city, he was a rich and well known man in the upper society.

She was completely in love with the lower class man and the feelings that she felt for him wasn't comparables. That was a huge presure for her, because every body was expecting the weeding and she found a deep rejection for her parents about this new man.

Her parents started to see that she was espending a lot of time with him and getting to be extremely keen on him, so they decide to send her to the city and took her appart of him. One moorning with out say anything they took her and send her to the city.

The poor guy, discovered this after she had left.

No more time, so i would recomend read the book or watch the movie.

The best novel - Martin

The best story what I have ever read was The Alchymist from Paulho Coelho. He is writter from South America. He is famous over all word and I think, the Alchymist was his first novel.

The book is very well written and if you start reading it you cannot stop. The story is about one young poor man, who takes care about sheep in his country. He is quite satisfied with his life. One day he has a strange dream. The dream is very lively and he can see the treasure in some foreing country and he knows that he can find it. The vision is so strong, that he makes decision to travel and find the treasure. He meet a lot of people from many countries on his way. The dream is still repeated and he follows the instruction. He spend one year searching for the treasure, but still nothing. He has plenty of new expiriences and his mind is open now, but he has doubt as well and he is a bit confused because he cannot find the treasure and he traveled almost all word.
One night, he has the dream again and now it is everything clear. He knows, where the treasure is and he is very suprise, because the place is only a few metres from his house. He had to travel almost all word to find that the most important things are at home. 

Estefania Rios

I have read some amazing books but I think the best I have read is a famous book around the world... Cien anos de soledad. This book was written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a colombian man who lived in a little town of the atlantic coast in my country.

The novel was about the story of a enormous family and their lives in that town where the writter lived. It is very interesting because there were many relationships between the family, and you can find some adventures they had because of their hard life, for example. The story has government, religious and culture topics as well, by the way, I think the novel is a pretty good way to know the colombian situation about sixty years ago.

I liked this novel because the writter gives a lot of details thorough all the book and I felt really into the story. Magic realism is the kind of literature he writes, then I can understand the context and the atmosphere of the story and at the same time I can think in maybe unreal places and characters. Finally, in my opinion, this book es a wonderful opportunity for teenagers and people of all ages, to learn and know more about the colombian context last century. 

Something funny or embarrassing that happened to me.Thomas Bass

It was approximately 1 year ago, i was outside playing soccer with my brother when suddendly my dog started to bark without reasons.He dug throughout the grass and ran away into the town , i tried to bring him at house but he was so much faster than me,.i was cross to him because everytime i was almost next to him , he restarted to run into the wrong way.I needed to call my father bringing the car for drop the dog off at house.After we decided to put a electric grating with a neckless for the dog.

sohyun

 About 5 years ago, I was staying and treaveling in Sydeny. One day, I needed some money so, I went to a n ATM in front of the bank.
 When it was my turn, I pressed $40 button and was waiting for the money to come out. I took the money and then I realised that I had got $20 and a piece of paper of the same size of a note. I thought that it's impossible situation.
 At that time I was wearing a baseball hat and looked like suspectable. I did not think that they would believe me.But I couldn't give up my money and made desicion to go into the bank and explain this.
 When I told a staff, he called his upper management. I could see that they were discussing over the window, and then then management came to me and told " it is impossible, We will investegate, and call you."
 After 2weeks, I had got a mail from the bank   

Diego

There have been many embarasing moments in my life, but all of them just have given me good moments to remember and laugh about, from small things up to really embarrasing moments. Things like saying the wrong word in the most inapropiated moment, fall over an old woman on a bus, ask to a woman how many month of pregnancy does she has or choose the worst gift for the girl your are dating with, are just of the the moments that when i remember i would like to be underground.

Particulary, i remember one day when i was at my house and my parents were having a meeting with some friends, and they were busy and running around getting things ready when guests would arrived. like usually they weren't ready for the first guest, so like usually i had to went out and recived them.

But i never imagined what was going to happen when i opened the door. As soon as i opened the door i saw a lady in her middle age with a pretty face and a perfect circular pregnant belly, so my fist reaction was said to her: ''oohhh i din't know that you were pregnant!!! Congratulations, you must be in advance month''

Her face started to change and now she didn't look pretty or kind, actually she looked like a devil who was going to kill me. She didn't say anything and got into the house.

The next day i knew that she wasn't pregnant, it was just a a belly full of food.

Oh my good!!! That was a very enbarasing moment, but funny.

Estefania Rios

First of all you have to know that I don't like pets, I don't like animals, none of them. I think this fact is because when I was about seven years old, one dog attacked my grandmother and she had to go to the hospital. So I think it was traumatic for me and all my cousins.
Last year, one day at university I arrived home and nobody wasn't there. My parents were working and my brother was playing soccer with his friends. Then, I found one of the front doors opened and I began to worry... I went to the second floor and I left my bag on my bed. Later I turned on my computer and suddenly I heard a strange sound... I saw a little cat there! So I screamed, the cat ran away and I closed my bedroom door. I called my mother and as I was crying, she got worried. She thought that someone had stolen me or something terrible had happened. I told her the story and she was angry because it was not a reason to cry. Fortunately, my brother called me later and he was good with me, I told him that when he arrived home he had to look for the cat and to take it out because I really did close all the doors.

Finally they arrived home and they told me "don't worry, everything is ok!" I felt better and I knew that I had to be relaxed with animals to don't feel panic in a situation like this one.

Hanh

In the summer I used to volunter to go to schools on the mountain  in my country. One summer I went to the small school that far from my city about 6 hours by car. That place, there was no eclitriccity, people are very poor and I stayed with them all the time I lived there. However they are very friendly.

Every day I taught the chilend who are bout 6 to 8 years old. One day, I gave my students topic for drawing about mushrooms. While they were drawing I drew too. After they had given me their drawing I showed them mine. Suddenly one little boy said somthing but I couldn't understand. Beacause they couldn't speak Vietnames well so I couldn't understand. The boy was really upset beacause I didn't understand him. I guessed I wasn't good peson.....And after that I went out and called another gril, she older them him and could speak Vietnames. She told me I wasn't good person beacases I drew a not good picture. I drew a mushroom and covered it with green colour. That is a poision mushroom. So I understood about that. I thanked to him becasue I have knwon berore.

That made me embarrassing......

Something funny or embarrassing that happened to me. EMMA BIASIZZO

When i was 7years old , i woke up in my bedroom after a short nap , looking for my mother. I ran in a hurry to the living room , same for the kitchen, but nobody was home.  And i don't know why, but i started to panic a lot, running everywhere calling her, crying and worried that she wasn't there. So i took the phone and dialed one of the only number i knew : Police , then i just get out of my house and went to my neighbours who were old people so i considered them to be like my grandparents. But they didn't have the time to calm me down the Police was already here , me and my neighbours who were very confused in front of the house. I found out that my mother was upstairs , having a shower when she opened the door more confused than everybody else seing me crying and the police just in front.

Alex - A funny or embarrassing story

One of the most embarrassing thing that I've ever had was long time ago, when I was kid.It was summer, and I was outside playing with my friends.From always we were doing funny and stupid things, but once I did something stupid and I was embarrassed! I took off my clothes and I was running and I don't remeber what else I went around one building, but I didn't see that I was wached by other ( older ) people.My friends knew about this all the time, but they didn't tell me.Me and my friends, we are still laughping about this situation.

JUHEUI

PERFECT DATE

Perfect date must be special. I hope my boyfriend is going to organize perfect and surprising date for me.

Early in a morning, he would visit my house and take me to the near cafe for brunch. We can have simple talk about our date plan with a cup of coffee. After the brunch, we would move to nice skii resort and change our clothes for skiing. I am good at snowboarding but don't know how to ride and control my balance on skii, so I am going to learn skiing and teach him snowboarding. It would be extremely exiting to enjoying sport in a

(sorry, I need to learn more future tenses)

Franziska

Perfect Date

My perfect date would be with someone I really like, with someone I already have met a couple of times. The person should be very funny und humerous because I really like to laugh. I think if you can laugh with someone it is a very good sign, that this person is someone special.

The perfect date would be in the evening, of course. He would have picked me up by 6.00 pm to go to a restaurant. Then we would drive or walk there, depending on where the restaurant is and how long it would take us to get there. At the restaurant we are going to have dinner, some glasses of wine and hopefully we would have much fun and some interesting conversations.

After we would have finished dinner we probablly would go to the cinema to watch a funny movie or to a rockconcert.

If the date would have been good until the end of the movie or the concert, we would probablly go into a bar or a pub to have some more drinks.

Then we would go home.

Annie- Catch up- face-to-face

My perfect date would be with someone I know well and we have met eachother before. We feel really comfortable with eachother. Could it be a match !?

Before I arrive, he would have booked a table in a restaurant, chosen by himself.  While I'm on my way to the restaurant, he would have waited several minutes before I arrive. We will talk about interesting topics, plans, dreams and we're going to change our opinions and hopefully we would find a lot in common. We also should have the same sense of humour and I'm sure we would have a lovely time while eating our meal. After we finish eating at the restaurant, we will go to a nice place with an amazing view and we are going to continue our catch up face-to-face. While we're wating for the sunset, we would have some drinks and snacks.
Hopefully, we will date again and we will end as a well-matched couple :)

claire

The perfect date.

The perfect date would start by a nice warm evening with my boyfriend.We will be going on the ocean front to watch the sunset,and we'll be having a stroll along the edge of the water and we'll be playing with the wash.Maybe even a dolphin will come to play with the waves and will be jumping in it.

Then we'll sit on the sand, we'll be drinking a nice sparkling wine while the sun starts to come down  the sea.We'll be talking about funny things, and we'll be just enjoying the time we got by ourself in front of this wonderfull landscape.in this perfect date no mosquitos will try to attack us.

When the sun will have disappeared, we'll start to head back to our car, walking barefoot in the sand.
then we'll be having diner on a nice restaurant on the edge of the ocean, and we'll let the sound of the ocean clear our mind and relax us from the stress of the week.

Debora - perfect date

My perfect date wouldn't necessarily be with the perfect man - a good one would do - but a perfect moment is required. As perfect is something extremely personal, for me it would start with an early knock on my door. Outside I'd see a man, who would be ran out of word for a while; I do not need words to understand certain things: looks and smiles are more than enough.

Perfection might requires a gentleman, so he would have practiced how to be one for while before getting to his date. He would take me for dinner in an fancy, but not uncomfortable, restaurant, where we could talk for a longe time enjoiyng our meal. Then, it would be very interesting going to a quite place, where we could get to know each other without worrying about the crowd. It could be a park, the top of roof of a building... Actually, that would be very interesting if you could see stars. They are quite relaxing and invite people to be more intimist. People talk about thigs that they do not share very often.

Simple things and actions are important for me too. So, a cup of coffee after all of it would be something nice and simple.

Sergio Martinez

My Perfect date.

A perfect date for me will be  with the perfect women with amazing vibe. I thing will be better if  do not planning to much dating. That main you have to improvise all the time. A perfect date is when you do not care about the place and  time. For me the most important is her, also is very important how I make her feel. I only need a excuse to see her like:

Firtly, I will like to invite her to have a dinner in a nices places. Defenitely the places have to be nice and of course the food have to be great. But the atmosphere  have to be great such as the music, the lights and decorations. After that we can have  some drinks.

LUCY

In those kinds of relationships it is difficult to ask them to stop any contact or friendship because they have been together half of their lives and they have lots of things in common, like their children. Even  though they are adults now, both are part of their life. They must have had a very good loving relationship so it is hard to cut that connection unless you had asked him to do that in the beginning. His ex wife could have manipulated him when she discovered that he was leaving her. Then he couldn't have had any option and as time passed they got used to having a loving friendship. You should talk with him and tell him what are you feeling right now with that relationship, because the only thing that makes it perfectly acceptable to have a close friendship are their children, but they are grow up now. So he needs to think about your feelings but you need to say them.   

Go to.

http://www.advicegoddess.com/ag-column-archives/2011/12/pest-wife-regre.html

Andres

Taking into consideration their long marriage, it's difficult to think that if the couple has decided to split up or brake up that the relationship would have disappeared, specially if they have children.
Obviously,the fact that they got divorce it means that both of them have the right to rebuild their  lives, and if any one does it, the ex couple must respect the new life of the other partner.
Nevertheless, we have to considered that everyone must have respect for their own new relationship and in this case i think that it's the main issue.
I'm not saying that the contact  between your partner and his ex wife has to be cut off,  because they have children and they will always have a bond, but she needs to let him go. She needs to understand that he has a new life and he must look after that, otherwise could lost it. However, the first person that has to be completely convinced of that is your man.
If he had made it clear since the beginning, you wouldn't have got in this situation. He has to clarify the situation with her and be decisive and consistent with that.

Thursday Task

Read this person's problem below.  Make some guesses about their past and then give them some advice.

Two years ago, my man left his 22-year marriage to be with me, but he told me he loved his former wife and would always want a friendship with her. I accepted that (I'm friends with my ex), but I'm bothered by the amount of contact they have. They do have two adult children and own property together. But, although she's living with a new partner, she sometimes wants to borrow his car, have him pick up the dogs, or drop off some paperwork. They phone about every other day, and not a week goes by without his stopping over -- occasionally for a family dinner. I get plenty of his time, energy and affection, and I know their relationship isn't romantic. The issue is split loyalty -- all the effort he's putting into remaining "loving friends" with a woman who'd love to see our relationship fail. Am I being petty and jealous? It feels like she's clinging hard -- and so is he.