the benefits of having friends
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My Dear Teacher
All the teachers that I know,
respect to all I will show,
the nicest teacher that I’ve seen,
is you over the years it’s been,
who always show me love and tender,
though we sometimes being foolish,
“I’m sorry” I would say,
for all the hard time you’ve gone through.
But I will praise you anyway,
I’ll be a good girl from nowadays
omposed By!
"ary "u#an $
Angelina "olly
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Friendship Forever
*verybody knows that life,
without a friend is like death,
without a witness.
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I want to present this poem,
to all of my friends.
"y dear friend
+hen I think of the tough time
I am going through
I know having a friend like you
around me will help me make it
-ou are my lovely Angel.
(ear sweetheart,
-ou have shown me how,
to be tough.
-ou have taught me,
when to say “o”.
-ou are my doctor,
+hen I am sad.
-ou are my everything
/hanks for being a caring friend.
"y friend.
(o you know0
/hat friendship
divides,
our sorrow,
multiplies,
our #oy11
omposed By!
Antonia 2along
%&elas 'A)
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An Unforgetable Day
I remember this unforgettable day which took place about five years ago. "y
grandmother wanted to bring my sister and I to town after we had shopped at a sundry
shop near home. I did not want to #oin them so I suggested that I would walk home on my
own. I was so convincing that I could get home easily and my grandmother agreed.
3o my grandmother and my sister left on a trishaw for town while I walked home.
After walking for about ten minutes, I began to feel that the way home seemed rather
long and endless. I looked out for a familiar sign or spot but there was none. It was then I
reali4ed that I was lost
I continued walking for hours and it was way past noon when I decided to rest under
a tree. A passing trishaw man stopped to talk to me. After I told him my story, he offered
to send me home. +e soon reached the residential area where I lived but I was horrified
to find that I could not recogni4e my own house. All the houses looked the same
2ust when the trishaw man was beginning to lose his patience with me, I heard
someone called out my name. it was my father. 5e was on his way out to make a report at
the local police station. "y family discovered that I was missing when my grandmother
and sister came back from town. "y parents thought that I was with them all the while
6n that day, I was lost for seven and a half hours. It was a day that I will never forget
because I dare not imagine what would have happened to me if I had not got home.
+ritten by!
7loriana 8uth
%&elas 9A)
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The Benefits of Having Friends
+e meet many people everyday. "any people walk in and out of our life. 3ome of
them stay a little bit longer, but some walked away and left footprints in our hearts.
*verybody have friends and best friends. Besides our parents, friend is the people who
we spend most of our time with. 5aving friends is good for us. /hey are always be there
for us when we need them the most.
7ood friends are always be there for us when we need them. 7ood friends should not
give up on us. /hey accept us for who we are. 7ood friends should be loyal and
trustworthy. +e share each other’s’ secret and we should not betray our friends. In certain
times, we are burdened with responsibilities and life seems to be an endless uphillstruggle, friend is the one to pick up the pieces and encourages us to move on. :riend is
also the one who will be there to lend us a shoulder to cry on when we face difficult times
in our life.
:riends can be our motivators. /hey will encourage us when we are feeling down.
:or e;ample, when we failed in our e;amination, they will motivate us to do our best in
the ne;t e;am. :riendship is not about are. +e can be friend with people who are younger
or older than us. /he friends who are older than us usually have many e;periences in life
and they can be our mentor or become an e;ample for us to learn. :urthermore, they can
give us moral support to do positive things in our daily life.
/o sum up, true friendship is demanding. It re<uires high level of trust, support and
understanding. +e must also display high degree of loyalty as a sign of respect to our
friends in life so that the friendships that we have can be everlasting. 5owever, one
should never e;pect too much from a friend, unless they are willing to be good in return.
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9. hristina "u#an %@B)
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I Wish You Were Here Dad!!!!
“:inally, the prince and the princess lived happily ever after in the castle.” I still
remember that was the last sentence of the story that my dad told me before I went to bed.
*very night before I went to bed, dad always lay at my side and told me different stories.
I really miss that moment. ow, it is totally different without my father by my side. (ad0
I do not even know where he is now. +here are you0 Am I too naughty until you leave
me alone without you by my side0 5ow could you leave me alone in this cruel world0 (o
you know that I suffered a lot without you by my side0 +ell, I hate you because you left
me without saying goodbye. I have not seen my father for seventeen years already. ife is
so hard without him.
(o I love my father0 -es, of course I love him. I spent all my childhood with him
and we shared many sweet memories together. +hen I was four years old, my dad always
brought me to the park and taught me to ride bicycle. As a girl, I was always taught by
him to behave like a good girl. *ven though my father did not know about fashion, he
was the one who always taught me about fashion during my childhood. *verytime we
went outing together, he would help me to choose the dress that made me look beautiful
and elegant. 5e was also always struggling to make me dress like a model 5e was also
my personal assistant to help me tie up my hair, match my dress with suitable shoes,
made sure I eat my meals and so on. /here were times he would make me feel awkward
and bored with the things that he had done.
As a father, he used to cheer me up all the time. +hen I was five years old, he was
the person to send me to the kindergarten. I felt really mad at my father for sending me
there and I always asked him the same <uestion! “+hy should I go to the kindergarten0”
5e told me that I will have many friends in the kindergarten and I will learn somethinginteresting in my life. +hen I looked into his eyes, I could see that he wanted me to have
a bright future. 5e used to hold my hand on our way to the kindergarten and I used to
keep <uiet along the way. At times, he would smile at me and make me feel loving and
comfortable. I felt very lucky to have such father. 5owever, his smile is gone now and
nowhere to be seen again.
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I still remember there was one singing competition that I took part in the
kindergarten and I was feeling so nervous that time. But my father were there to calm me
down. 5e said to me! “8aysha, en#oy every part of the song and don’t worry too much. I
am here for you” I sat on his lap and hugged him. After that, I en#oyed myself on the
stage and sang very well. +hen the chairman announced that I was the winner of the
singing competition, all the audiences in the hall clapped their hands and I saw my father
dropped his tears in front of me. 5e must be really proud of me I ran towards him and
hugged him in front of the crowd. I can felt the love that he had for me, his precious
daughter.
-ears had gone by, I had been growing up and we were not talking to each other
fre<uently anymore. It was not because something bad had happened between us, but it
was because I was too busy with my homework and other school activities in my
secondary school. As a teenager, I was so in love and easily influenced by the things that
happened around me. I spent most of my time with my friends and I could see my father
felt rather lonely. I knew he wanted me to treat him like the way I did during childhood
but it was too late. 5e is gone forever
I know that I will not see him again. I wish he was here with me now so that I can tell
him he is the greatest father in the world, and my everything. If only I could turn back
time, I wanted to say sorry to him. But I couldn’t. /hanks dad, I love you 8est in
peace11
+ritten By!
3haron 2ohn %3)