(i'm still working on the assignment... it's a stumper)

1. “Then the crime reached me. One time I was returning from my school to my home, in the buss, and [a thief] told me: 'Give me your watch or I will kill you.' Of course I am alive and I still have the same watch, how?

I told him 'what about if I bought you some candies?' Fortunately he agrees.”

2. “People often confuse happiness with actually being in love. They think that because they are happy, that they are in love. When in fact for the most part they are just happy with the idea of being in love and spending the rest of their life with someone. Most people break up and get divorce.”

3. “The people in Ecuador have a very singularway to celebrate the new year. Each family makes or buy a rag doll made in some cases of newspaper sheets, wood, clothes and glue, another cases they are made of clothes and others materials. They burn it when is exactly 00h00 the first day of the year. The believe is that when the rag doll burn the fire burns all bad thing that have happened at the past year and it makes people take the new year with optimism and wishes for a progress year.

Other belive and tradition that day is to eat grapes during the 12 firsts seconds of the year, one for each second. People have to make a wish on each grape. Also some people wait the new year with money in their pocket because they think if they began the year with money in there, they wont have money problems during the year. Other people have the custom of running around the corner just at midnight because they believe that doing that they will have travel vacations many times at the soon year.”

4. “Not always you are going to find good friends. Not all the people have good intentions. There are people that are masks instead of friends. So be careful. They used to call themselves friends. They aren’t. They request more information of you than friends usually do. They are like many snakes, waiting for an important and big bite where hurt.

It doesn’t mean that you have to be afraid of people. It means that you have to choose correctly…

Friends are the light of our lifes… If you think that a friend is not important, you are wrong. They are important as you are.

Sometimes it is difficult to find a good friend. But it is not imposible. The world is plenty of good friends.”