Page 10 - Exercise 5

Page 10 - Exercise 5

Elsie. My name is Elsie. I went around to the girl at school last year. Her name’s Katrina. She’s very pretty and her parents are rich. She gets everything that she wants. Fashionable cloths, jewelry, hairstyles. At first she was really nice. We spent a lot of time together and I sometimes stayed at her house. But then she saw me with a boy that she liked and she suddenly changed. She said that I was ugly and she told people that we weren’t friends anymore. Because I tried to steal some of her jewelry from her bedroom. At first I just ignored it. But then she started writing horrible things about me on the Internet. And putting embarrassing photos of me there too. Nobody at school wanted to be with me and I was on my own all the time. Because all the girls wanted to be Katrina’s friend. I was very unhappy and I started doing badly in my schoolwork. In the end my parents moved me to another school. I’m a lot happier there. But it’s further from my home. Last week someone told me that Katrina started doing the same thing to another girl now. Maybe in the end people will see that she isn’t really very nice. She’s just a bully.

Connor. My name’s Connor. I’ve always worn very thick glasses. Because my eyes are very good, People have always called me names because of it. They called me four eyes and things like that. I don’t usually do anything. I just ignore it. But one day at the end of the summer term. Someone shouted: Oi, four eyes. It was two boys and a girl. I told them they were stupid and walked away. But they grabbed me and started punching me. One of the teachers saw them and he told them off. But that made it worse. When I came out of school. They were waiting for me. They took my bag and threw all my books on the ground. Then they pushed me and my glasses fell off. And I couldn’t see. Then they ran away. It happened again a couple of days later. Well, I decided that was enough. So in the summer holidays. I started doing judo. When we went back to school in September. The bully started again. But this time when one of the boys pushed me. I grabbed his arm and threw him on the ground. He was so surprised. Anyway, after that, they left me alone. But they’re still bullies. They’ll just start bullying some other kid.