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Teens Dreams

Grigore Moisil English Language Magazine

Anul I / Nr. 1

Aprilie, 2011

Karta.ro Printing Press

Oneti

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EDITORIAL STAFF:

Editor-in-Chief:

Teacher: Magdalena Maria Velicu

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Text: Grigore Moisil students

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Contents Map

Coordinators Preface .. 5

Motto 6

Argument Why Teens Dreams?.. 7

The English language - paradoxes.. 8

Teenagers world. 10

Learning comes the hard way . 11

The awkward age.. 12

My inner world .. 14

Why do people nowadays build walls instead of bridges?.................................. 16

Future-coming pupils from secondary schools write for our magazine 18

Teen jokes .. 20

Personality psycho-tests 25

LOVE Teenagers in love .. 33

Love quotations . 34

What does LOVE mean to you? .. 35

Diary entry (head over heels in love) 38

Funny things about love 42

Love test . 45

How you look at love: psycho-test . 46

Natural disasters: earthquake hits Japan

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Former Grigore Moisil students write for our magazine 50

The way to stardom famous people 51

Personality quotes 52

Film review of the edition .. 53

A glamorous wedding 54

The fame monster . 56

Funny personality interviews: In heaven with Willie. 58

Witty celebrity thoughts 60

Lets laugh our head off! 61

Psycho-tests . 65

Horoscopes 71

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Coordinators Preface

Teaching Journey over Generations

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in

the classroom. My personal approach creates a climate. My daily mood makes the weather. As

a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a childs life miserable or joyous. I can be the

tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. (Haim Ginott, child psychologist)

Paraphrasing the beginning of this suggestive quotation which is self-explanatory, I can

say that I have come to the wonderful conclusion that being a teacher is neither a job, nor a

profession like all the rest. Teaching is a calling and few are those blessed by God with such

personal qualities as empathy, understanding, patience, sensitivity, love for the fellow-beings,

all of which will enable a teacher to be looked up to and even loved by his pupils.

Dr. Hosur Narasimhaiah (an Indian physicist and educator) stated that: A poor teacher

complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires". I do

not know which category I belong to (I leave it to my students to pass their judgement upon),

but what I do know is that I really enjoy my work, as for me teaching is a labour of love. What I

also know for sure is that I love my pupils and every day I try to do my utmost to make them

like this tuneful language which is so important for everybody to speak nowadays.

As the quotation states, GREAT TEACHERS have always been instruments of inspiration for

their students, because their job is not to always cram pupils heads with all sorts of

information sometimes beyond their depth; no, their fate is far greater than this teachers

have a huge responsibility, as they shape souls, light fires and even influence destinies, just the

way my former English teachers influenced mine. It is common knowledge that a pupil may like

or dislike a subject matter in school depending on the way a teacher gets his/her message

across. I was a lucky student because, in my case, it was thanks to my wonderful English

teachers (to whom I am more than grateful), that I grew to love English more and more, until I

finally became a teacher of English myself. Somebody once said that: A journey of a thousand

miles begins with the first step. My journey into the English language fairy-land began almost

30 years ago with my teachers first step into the classroom and I truly hope it will never end.

The same as I hope that this magazine will be an instrument of inspiration and motivation, as

well as the beginning of a wonderful and long-lasting love relationship between us, English

teachers of this college and our dear students.

Magdalena Maria Velicu

Magazine Editor-in-Chief

Head of the English department

Grigore Moisil High school

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Motto

If By Rudyard Kipling

IF you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, dont deal in lies,

Or, being hated, dont give way to hating,

And yet dont look too good, nor talk too wise;

IF you can dream and not make dreams your master;

If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth youve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and buildem up with wornout tools;

IF you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: Hold on;

IF you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds worth of distance run-

Yours is the Earth and everything thats in it,

And which is more youll be a Man, my son!

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Argument

Are you prepared to dive into an ocean of inspiration and fantasy? Are you prepared for

something new and interesting? Well, if the answer is yes, then your best bet is

reading this magazine from cover to cover, as you will find in it everything your heart

desires .

We hope that this magazine can become a real point of interest for the English literature

and culture lovers because here youll find many interesting informative articles and

also many personal compositions inspired by art, culture or even everyday life. This

magazine aims at presenting many interesting aspects concerning the English culture

and civilization in a very attractive form, that is why our articles will be catchy and will

arouse the readers interest.

We, teenagers, live in our own world where Love, Happiness and Curiosity are reigning

and it is so big that everyone can join in. We dream every day because we live every

day, we learn every day, we become part of reality, and love life with all its good and

bad parts.

The aim of this magazine is to bring teenagers universe closer to the hectic world in

which we live every day, so that people might understand us better. All we need during

this period of time is a little understanding, love and some guidance in order to do

something special, something that will show the others that we believe in ourselves.

We can change these dreams into something good, which will remind everybody that

teens can do interesting things with just a little dedication and even passion, thus

becoming the force of the future.

All in all, we love life and we will always remember teenage years as grass blades turned up

on the cold lava.

If you have the courage to step into this Magic Universe, we guarantee you wont regret it! The Editorial Staff

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THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Have you ever wondered why foreigners have trouble with the English

language? We must face the fact that, while English reflects the creativity of the

human race, it is a TERRIBLE language.

There is no egg in the eggplant

No ham in the hamburger

And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.

English muffins were not invented in England

French fries were not invented in France.

We sometimes take English for granted,

But if we examine its paradoxes we find that

Quicksand takes you down slowly,

Boxing rings are square

And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea, nor is it a pig.

If writers write, how come fingers dont fing?

If the plural of tooth is teeth

Shouldnt the plural of phone booth be phone beeth?

If the teacher taught,

Why didnt the preacher praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables

What the heck does a humanitarian eat!?

Why do people recite at a play

Yet play at a recital?

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist,

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But a person who drives a racing car is not called a racist?

Why are wise men and wise guys opposites?

If horrific means to make horrible, why doesnt terrific mean to make

terrible?

We have to marvel at the unique lunacy

Of a language where a house can burn up

While it burns down,

And in which you fill in a form by filling it out!

Where we park on driveways

And drive on parkways.

English was invented by people, not computers,

And it reflects the creativity of the human race

Which, of course, is not a race at all!

That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible

But when the lights are out they are invisible!

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked

Can electricians be delighted, musicians denoted,

Cowboys deranged, models deposed,

Tree surgeons debarked and dry cleaners depressed?

And why is that when I wind up my watch, it starts

But when I wind up this poem, it ends?

If people from Poland are Poles,

Why arent people from Holland called Holes????

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Celina Feren

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Ones own experience is the best school, even if its fees are extremely high: as a rule

they are paid through suffering.

Throughout our entire life every single day teaches us something new, something we

might just find useful in the future, something which might just save us from making a big

mistake and ruining our lives or that of our beloved ones. Life is, without a doubt, the

most precious gift people have received from God, the only miracle that has not yet

lost its intensity because, thanks to it, each of us is capable of saying: I am alive,

therefore I exist. Life does not have any instructions to follow, so, everybody has to

learn by themselves how to survive. Life teaches us how to be capable of becoming a

part of the society we live in, a puzzle piece which is going to find its place under the

sun. From the beginning, life teaches us the most important lessons: how to make the

difference between good and bad, between truth and lie; but, to make these

differences, we need a little bit of help, a little moral support from our family or our

friends. It is in our human nature to make mistakes, but what really matters is the lesson

we should learn. It is important that we should have the power to admit our mistakes

and rise from our own ashes like the Phoenix bird.

Not once have I asked myself if my destiny is already written somewhere out there, and

if it is, what am I supposed to do with my future? I am sure that everybody has asked

this question at least once in their life and I also know that they found the answer within

their souls: life is how you live it and how you make good use of the little luck you

receive from God. We have all asked ourselves, some only once or twice, others

constantly, why is life so hard? Why must we suffer, why must we deal with problems? It

is hard for us to understand because this is what life has been like ever since Eve ate the

forbidden apple. God offered us a place in His Paradise and He gave us the possibility

to choose: why do some people choose evil over good?

Nowadays, there seem to be two types of teenagers: teens who, overprotected by

parents, live a comfortable but boring life, sheltered from all kinds of problems until they

get out of leash: then, immature and irresponsible, they make mistakes after mistakes;

and there are also those who are left to see the real face of the world and learn the

lesson of life by suffering. Thus, even though they shed a lot of tears, they will eventually

become mature and reliable persons in the end.

It seems that in the modern world we live now teenagers seem to think a lot more

different than their parents when it comes to making decisions. When you are

somewhere between 16 and 19, you feel on top of the world and you want to be

independent by all means, you want your parents to trust you, no matter how many

mistakes you might make because you are under the impression that you are doing

exactly what they used to do when they were your age. It is important for teenagers to

try to do what they think is correct and not let themselves influenced by what the others

say, in other words we should all be the judges of our own lives. How can a teenager

develop his personality if he has never been allowed to make a single choice?

When you are young, life is an ocean and you stand on the shore. Every wave that hits

you is a problem you have to deal with. What really matters is whether you have the

power to keep on standing in front of the waves and not drown.

Ioana Rocan/ Mdlina Stratone

IX F English bilingual

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Have you ever heard the expression

teenagers are like pizzas ? Im sure you havent, because we invented it . You may ask

why ? Well , its because they arent round and they dont live in carton boxes either ( at

least the majority of them ) but , they, hm lets say that they are found in a lot of

flavours ; yes, they are so different and unique . Some are rebellious , misunderstood

and have weird friends and clothes. There are some (especially girls ) who have

gossiping as their hobby ; Id call those ones the gossip-ella . A very similar teenage

stereotype would be the quatro-facella who have extra spicy knowledge about

everyone around . I dont think you have heard about the latter type because it is very

rare: almost all the time wise and engrossed in books a really clever choice.

There is also another reason why we can compare teenagers with pizzas: they are

always where the pizzas are - at parties . Anyway, this is

a funny approach about teenagers behaviour .

Teenagers also have a very important thing in common:

the desire to be different . I know that this is weird , but,

lets face it ! We all want to be different , dont we?

Look at that girl , ah, my..let me do this bike trick ,

maybe shell notice me , Oh, no , look at this

uniform , it is not that bad, but we are all like sheep dressed in this way , no way to

wear it ! and so on.

Teenage yearsa garden with just a rose; a garden which becomes beautiful if the rose

survives in winter and devastated and forgotten if the rose doesnt survive.

Teenage yearsthe period of time between childhood and maturity, being like a bridge

between the jokes period, a bridge which cant miss because it makes the most

important connection in our life: kid adult. These years are very important in a person

s life because, at this age, teenagers must make a lot of choices and they have to decide

what they want and what they expect from their life. They must choose between good

and evil, or whether they want to be conservative or in trend. There are so many

teens nowadays who choose the latter option, trying everything that is new and

tempting, without even realizing the consequences that their actions might have on

their future: some take to bad habits such as drinking, smoking or becoming addicted to

drugs. Therefore, their future depends on the awkward age, the way specialists

called it.

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During this period, a teenager starts to feel and to have all sorts of mixed feelings,

because it is the age of the first love, when a person starts having butterflies in his

stomach. It is the age of discovery, when everything is possible, when the world is your

oyster. Now, a teenager is in search of an identity, which very often turns into a

dramatic struggle within oneself. In this process, a teen feels the need to have an idol, a

model, usually a star or a V.I.P. who are not always the best models in life.

Teenagers may be different, but at the same time they have a lot of things in common,

thats why we can speak about the concept of the global teenager: they share the

same hobbies, an international language which is English, the same tastes in music,

fashion or in ways of spending their spare time. Thats why, tall or short , Chinese or

Greek ,strange-haired or smartly- dressed , we can all define ourselves like this :

T - Take

E - everything

E easy !

N - Never

A abandon hope!

G Grant yourself a proper

E - education!

R Rainbow your days!

S Smile! Life is beautiful!

Feren Celina/Petcu Bogdan

IX F English Bilingual

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My Inner World

What do you think a teenager is? ...What problems do you

think we face? ...Why is life so hard? ...Why do the bad things always

happen to good people? ... and why am I affected emotionally more than I should be?

These are the questions that the majority of teenagers ask themselves almost every

day of their daily existence.

Do you know what the answer is? ...It is because you do not stop for a moment

to open your eyes and see what is happening around youwhat is happening with you

and most of all, what is happening inside of you. Do you have a difficult life? That is

because you made it that way why dont you just take a look in a mirror and see your

true power, your true potential, your true face.

Most of us experience things that we should only see in our worst nightmares for

a few seconds, most of us are facing them and while some people learn how to defeat

all these thoughts, the others cannot or they just do not want to, that is why a lot of

young persons find refuge in the world of drugs, running away from their families. I could

tell you more about these facts, but what is the point in focusing on these problems

when the real secret is to concentrate on how to solve them?

You see, the world is blind because they think they are limited. Only a few see

that we have no limitWe were created in the image and likeness of GodThat

means we have the potential of God running into our veins, our body, our mind and

into our soul.

A few years ago I faced one of my worst nightmares, my parents had just split

up, all of my friends betrayed me, my mother was sick , my girlfriend left for London and

I was just alone, desperate, confused, I had so many questions and no answers yet.

Why were those things happening to me? What had I done to deserve this pain and

this sorrow.? I always used to repeat these wise words What dont kills you, makes you

stronger. Consequently, I was becoming stronger and more powerful than I had ever

been, but I could not realize it. One night I was walking with my head set into my ears

and thinking and thinkingI went to a bridge and just watched how the water was

flowing so easily, so simply, and yet so complicated Bruce Lee once said: Empty your

mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup it becomes the cup,

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if you put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle, now water can flow or it can crash.

Be water, my friend.

Then, I realized what I was What he was talking about I started documenting

myself about martial arts and all other kind of physical activities that I could do. I saw

that a lot of people who were practising martial arts were a lot more patient, so I

decided to attend a course and it changed my lifeIt helped me see things differently,

clearly and simply, because when you do martial arts, your are not learning to harm

people, or to fight, you are learning to discover who you really are, there you will

discover your true potential, you are learning how spirit, mind and body combine in

perfect harmony. After a few months after I started practising martial arts, I discovered

a new sport, a new art of movement, which is called freestyle running, where you use

your city as your playground, by running from one point to another, trying all types of

different movements and flips and tricks.

Think beyond the walls, beyond boundaries push your mind to accept that

there are none, it is only impossible because you have been told it isYou need to be a

master of your environment, not a servant to itWhen I realized this, everything

changed, I started feeling free again, I could smile and I could laugh, no longer

worrying about tomorrow. I even made new friends who had the same passions and

the same desires like me and we began to run together, like a team.

A wise man once said: The whole secret of existence is to have no fear, never

fear what will become of you, depend on no one, only when you reject all help are you

truly free, share inspiration with the world and keep your fears to yourself.Everyone

must experience every part in lifepositive or negative. Everyone can find happiness,

you just need to stop concentrating on the bad things in life and start doing what you

really want and what you really need.

The question isDo you know what you want? ...Try figuring it out and when you

do never lose hope and never deny what you truly are.The whole concept of time is

flashing before your eyeswhat have you done to be proud of? ...

Live your life!!!....God bless!

Adam Leustean Marius

XI E Social Sciences

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Why do people nowadays build walls instead of bridges?

Since always, people have felt the urging need to communicate, to relate to one

another, to socialize and to exchange feelings and ideas. Indeed, it is a fact that no one can

live isolated, because people are not islands, are they? That is why, establishing relationships

is perhaps the most important condition of life. Unfortunately, the society we live in

nowadays deals with a lot of problems, most of which caused by the lack of communication

which seems to be growing more and more, despite the advancement of technology which

should bring people closer to one another and not alienate them. To put it another way, it

could be argued that things go wrong because people build walls instead of bridges. If

establishing relationships is vital to our well-being, then why is everybody isolating

themselves?

Firstly, it is generally believed that family relationships are the strongest of all, that is

why people often claim that blood is thicker than water. It has

also been argued that friendships come and go, but families are

forever. Everybody needs a parent who should be their model

in life, somebody to be next to them, for better and for worse,

to give them a word in season, to protect and to love them

unconditionally. A parent is a trustworthy person, a confidant to

whom one can confess ones worries. The question is: is this

really happening nowadays? Family relationships may be the

strongest, but it seems that in this day and age big walls stand

between parents and their children, preventing them from

having a real dialogue. Of course the generation gap has always

existed, but now it seems to have deepened because of the

technological development and of the new mentalities: children and their parents do not see

eye to eye any more, their outlooks on life are different in many respects and consequently,

they fight like cat and dog. Because of stress and of the fact that parents are always too busy

to listen to their kids problems, relationships often turn sour, children alienate themselves

and turn to wrong ways such as smoking, drinking or becoming addicted to drugs. It goes

without saying that a good parent should be sympathetic and easy-going, a shoulder to cry on

whenever the child is in need, without of course pampering him/her, as it very often happens

with those over-spoilt kids born with a silver spoon in their mouth.

Furthermore, nowadays technology and all the other negative phenomena seem to

affect not only family relationships, but many other types of relationships within the society

itself. People now spend hours on end in front of the computer and no longer socialize, their

mind is almost infantilized by this modern invention. They are always on the run, jobs

seem to take up most of their time, consequently, life becomes more and more stressful.

Apart from that, social differences among people can also have as a result a lack of

communication. Because of religion, poverty or racial differences, many people are

completely cut off by huge walls, being persecuted and badly treated by others. So, what

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should people do to pull down these walls? The answer is simple: they should stop judging

others by appearances, they should stop being so shallow and narrow-minded and start

listening to others, interacting more, learning from their fellow beings, as everything and

everyone around you is your teacher. A strong relationship of any type be it family,

friends or love should always be based on feelings like loyalty, respect, trust, compassion,

commitment and, most important, on love. We all have our ups and downs in life, we all

make mistakes, but forgiveness is what makes us human, as treating others with the kindness

and respect they deserve is vital if we want to have the respect we desire. Needless to say

that it never feels good to be judged or used and it does not feel good either to be talked down

to or treated rudely or inappropriately. People should radically change their way of being,

showing more compassion and understanding for the others because, as Cathe Mathew stated:

A smile is the shortest distance between two people. Building bridges towards others not

only makes them feel valued and appreciated, but they feel that they are not alone, having

someone they can rely on. As a matter of fact, not being judgemental and practising

emotional maturity is the key to solid and healthy relationships within the society. Bernard

Cooke stated that: Involvement with people is always a very delicate thing it requires real

maturity to become involved and not get all messed up.

All things considered, people should be more emphatic and more communicative, they

should socialize more, expressing their own feelings and being more sensitive and careful to

other peoples feelings and emotions. They should also

be truthful to one another, trustworthy, loyal and

generous, showing compassion, respect and even love

for the disadvantaged people and not only, because love

gives us wings. Every relationship can go through

difficult moments in life but the differences among

people and between generations can be patched up or

even done away with, if we are willing to make a

minimum of effort. Thus, the hatchet can be ultimately

buried, as relating and socializing represent the very heart of human nature, having love and

friendship protect them with their tentacles from which we never want to escape. People

must try to find that burning and guiding flame within their souls which can help them to pull

down the walls and build solid bridges instead, so that the world we live in might become a

better place for everybody. We are the architects of our own future, so let us pick up our

books and study again the art of building bridges.

Abaza Maria/ Pdurariu Tudor

XII A Mathematics- Information technology

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Paradise Lost in the Time Hourglass

Ive made a story for you only by letting my thoughts fly away. Free.

Unchained. Like the Phoenix bird rising from her ashes, longing to meet the Sun

high in the broken blue sky, from whose china pieces Im gathering, with my little

painting brush, the magnificent beads of light. Its just a little story written

without letters on a fish scale, which needs to be carefully read using the spyglass.

In order to do this, we must carry it high up, next to the Moon, and place it right

on Cassiopeias shelf. Tonight we will silently step on the village church spire, up

to the spark of the cross, and there, caught in the whirlpool of our feet, we will

stretch ourselves to embrace the constellations.

This is how the story of my life begins, with a shy Once upon a time..

But it was long ago, there is no more, as my childhood

came to an end a long time ago, when I was still at the

age of innocence. I dont know what happened exactly

and now I am at a loss for words, because I simply cant

understand, its beyond me why such a terrible thing as

growing up must happen to us, kids. We consider it some

sort of death, because the loss is painful and unbearable

in both situations.

I remember my first day of kindergarten when I was so shy and scared, as I

knew neither the place, nor the people there. But then a miracle occurred: an

older child took me slowly by the hand, accompanying me into a world of fairy-

tale. I remember as if it was yesterday: a pretty large classroom crowded with

little children, the same as I was, telling me that, beginning from that day, I was

going to spend most of my time there. When mum came to pick me up in the

afternoon, I went to her, I took her into my arms and I whispered to her that I was

over the moon, as I had already discovered a world of fantasy. Mother smiled and

brought me home. And so, being a part of this fairy land, time went by slowly,

Future-coming pupils from secondary

schools write for our magazine

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hour after hour, day after day, year after year, until one day I suddenly realized I

was already in the first grade, leaving behind my beloved Paradise. I was lost.

Completely lost, as I simply couldnt figure out how such a terrible, but at the

same time wonderful thing, could have happened. Time is merciless with us,

mortals, so it went by again, and again. And for a while now I

have stepped into the Teenage Universe. It was some sort of

death for me, after which reincarnation followed, with my

entire being taking the shape of a completely new body

which I no longer knew, bringing another life along with it,

completely different from the one I happily lived in my

childhood.

It is only now I fully realize that, when I was little, I desperately wanted to

be a grown-up, independent and on my own; but now, when I am a teenager

already, shyly stepping into an unknown universe, I already look forward to

coming back to my beloved Childhood, which I thought to be my best friend ever.

But, as nothing in this world lasts forever, it came the time when my dear

childhood had to say her farewell, leaving me forlorn, deserted, lost and found,

living dead moments of deep nostalgia.

Where are you, my dear childhood, with your magic universe?

Andreotti Iulia Gabriela VI D Secondary school nr.1

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Teen jokes A letter from a college student

The parents of a Northwestern student who just

headed back from holiday received this letter:

Dear Mom and Dad:

Univer$ity life i$ $o wonderful! Cla$$e$ this $e$$ion are intere$ting, my cla$$mate$ are

the be$t!

But after $pending all my ca$h on Chri$tma$ pre$ent$, I am in a little need for $ome

$pending money for book$ and $uch. But don't want to $end the wrong $ignal$ home.

Love

Your $on

After deliberating a while, this was the draft of their appropriate response:

Dear Son:

NOt much to NOtice here on the NOrth side of town since you left for NOrthwestern.

NObody doing NOthing Noble.

Enjoyed having you home for Thanksgiving in NOvember and Christmas. NOthing is the

same since you left.

Loved your NOte; write aNOther one when you have time.

Have to go NOw.

Mom & Dad

Blind Date

"How was your blind date?" a college student asked her 21 -year old roommate.

"Terrible!" the roommate answered. "He showed up in his 1932 Rolls Royce."

"Wow! That's a very expensive classic car. What's so bad about that?"

"He was the original owner."

College Cure

Two men sank into adjacent train seats after a long day in the city. One asked

the other, "Your son go back to college yet?"

"Two days ago."

"Mine's a senior this year, so it's almost over. In May, he'll be an engineer. What's your

boy going to be when he gets out of college?"

"At the rate he's going, I'd say he'll be about thirty."

"No, I mean what's he taking in college?"

"He's taking every penny I make."

"Doesn't he burn the midnight oil enough?"

"He doesn't get in early enough to burn the midnight oil."

"Well, has sending him to college done anything at all?"

"Sure has! It's totally cured his mother of bragging about him."

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Long Hair

A young boy had just gotten his driving permit. He asked his father, who was a

minister, if they could discuss his use of the car. His father said to him, "I'll make a deal

with you. You bring your grades up, study your Bible a little, and get your hair cut, then

we will talk about it." A month later the boy came back and again asked his father if

they could discuss his use of the car. His father said, "Son, I'm real proud of you. You

have brought your grades up, you've studied your Bible diligently, but you didn't get

hair cut!" The young man waited a moment and replied, "You know Dad, I've been

thinking about that. You know Samson had long hair, Moses had long hair, Noah had

long hair, and even Jesus had long hair." His father replied, "Yes son, and they walked

everywhere they went!"

Who is this calling?

The local high school has a policy that the parents must call the school if a

student is to be absent for the day. Kelly (name changed to protect the guilty),

deciding to skip school and go to the mall with her friends waited until her parents had

left for work and called the school herself. This is the actual conversation of the

telephone call.

Kelly: "Hi, I'm calling to report that Kelly so-and-so is unable to make it to school today

because she is ill.

Secretary at high school: "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I'll note her absence. Who is this

calling?"

Kelly: "This is my mother."

Driver Training

My teenage niece was nervous as she took the wheel for her first driving lesson.

As she was pulling out of the parking lot, the instructor said, "Turn left here, and don't

forget to let the people behind you know what you're doing."

She turned to the students sitting in the back seat and announced, "I'm going left."

Where is your homework?

Teacher: Where is your homework?

Pupil: I lost it fighting this kid who said you weren't the best teacher in the school!

Hopeless Pupil

"It's no good, sir," said the hopeless pupil to his English teacher.

"I try to learn, but everything you say goes in both ears and out the other."

"Goes in both ears and out the other?" asked the puzzled teacher.

"But you only have two ears."

"You see, sir? I'm no good at math, either."

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School Excuses

The following are excuse notes from parents (including original spellings)

collected by the University of Texas: They were collected from Arkansas, Kentucky,

Tennessee, West Virginia and Mississippi.

My son is under a doctor's care and should not take P.E. today. Please execute

him.

Please excuse Lisa for being absent. She was sick and I had her shot.

Dear School: Please ekscuse John being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32,and

also 33.

Please excuse Roland from P.E. for a few days. Yesterday he fell out of a tree

and misplaced his hip.

John has been absent because he had two teeth taken out of his face.

Sally won't be in school a week from Friday. We have to attend her funeral.

Gloria was absent yesterday as she was having a gangover.

And the best one...

Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was not his fault.

Proverbs As Told By Children

A first grade teacher collected old, well-known proverbs. She gave each kid in

her class the first half of a proverb, and had them come up with the rest:

As you shall make your bed so shall you... mess it up.

Better to be safe than... punch a 5th grader.

You can lead a horse to water but... how?

Don't bite the hand that... looks dirty.

No news is... impossible.

A miss is as good as a... Mr.

You can't teach an old dog new... Math.

If you lie down with the dogs, you'll... stink in the morning.

Love all, trust... me.

An idle mind is... the best way to relax.

Where there's smoke, there's... pollution.

Happy the bride who... gets all the presents!

A penny saved is... not much.

Two's company, three's... the Musketeers.

Don't put off tomorrow what... you put on to go to bed.

Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and... you have to blow your

nose.

Children should be seen and not... spanked or grounded.

If at first you don't succeed... get new batteries.

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Missing school

Teacher: What kept you out of class yesterday, miss, acute indigestion?

Student: No, Sir, a cute engineer!

Teacher: Miss, you should have been here at 8 oclock sharp!

Young lady: Why, what happened, Sir??

Teacher: why are you so late?

Student: There was a man who lost a hundred dollar bill.

Teacher: Thats nice! Were you helping him look for it?

Student: No! I was standing on it!

Inattentive students

Teacher: Now, John, what are you doing- learning something?

Student: No, Sir, Im listening to you!

Teacher: I wish youd pay a little more attention, young man!

Student: But Im paying as little as I can, Sir!

The teacher speaking suddenly pointed to a student and said: Billy, name two

pronouns!

Billy suddenly woke up and said: Who, me?

A good dancer

Girl: You would be a good dancer except for two things.

Boy: What are the two things?

Girl: Your feet.

Different points of view

An English teacher wrote these words on the blackboard:

woman without her man is nothing

The teacher then asked the students to punctuate the words correctly.

The boys wrote: Woman, without her man, is nothing.

The girls wrote: Woman! Without her, man is nothing!

Long conversation

A teenage girl had been talking on the phone for about an hour, and the she

hung up.

Wow!, said her father, that was short! You usually talk for two hours. What

happened?

Wrong number! replied the girl.

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Math is easy

A teacher asked a student to write 55 on the blackboard.

Teacher: Write 5 and beside it another 5!

The student wrote 5 and then stopped.

Teacher: What are you waiting for? Write the whole number!

Student: I dont know which side to write the other five!

English Grammar

The teacher to a student: Conjugate the verb to walk in the simple present,

please!

The student: I walk, you walk

The teacher interrupts him: Quicker, please!

The student: I run, you run

Teacher: Today, we are going to talk about tenses. Now, if I say Im beautiful,

which tense is it?

Students: Obviously it is the past tense.

Smart student

Student: When I stand on my head, the blood rushes to my head, but when I

stand on my feet, the blood doesnt rush to my feet. Why is that, I wonder?

Teacher: Its because your feet arent empty.

Pretty ugly

This joke can be used to explain that insulting someone is considered funny

especially when the person is fishing for a compliment.

Mary: John says Im pretty. Andy says Im ugly. What do you think, Peter?

Peter: I think you are pretty ugly.

Visiting God

A teenager visits God and says: God, do you mind if I ask you a few questions?

God says: No, ask me anything you want.

So the teenager says: God, youve been around for a very long time, so for you,

how long is a thousand years?

God replies: For me, a thousand years is only 5 minutes, son!

The teenager then says: Thats interesting, God. And for you, how much is a

million dollars?

God replies: For me, a million dollars is only five cents.

Hearing this, the teenager happily replies: Really? Well, then, God, could you

lend me five cents, please?

God looks at the teenager, smiles and says:

Of course, my son. Just wait five minutes!

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Personality psycho-tests

Emotions test - Do you have a healthy attitude

towards your emotions?

Here's a quiz by which you can know about your emotions.

For your every 'no' answer, add 1 to your score.

1. Do you feel guilty if you cry in public? 2. Do you think crying is a sign of weakness? 3. Do you think men and boys should be encouraged to hide their tears? 4. Do you feel embarrassed if you find yourself crying while watching a film or reading a book? 5. Would you try to hold back your tears if you were attending a funeral? 6. Would you distrust a politician who shed tears in public? 7. Do you think that tears are an unnecessary expression of emotion? 8. Do you always try to hide your disappointment? 9. Do you get embarrassed if you see grown men crying? 10. Would you pretend that you had something in your eyes if you were unexpectedly discovered crying? 11. Do you always try to hide your anger?

For your every 'yes' answer, add 1 to your score

12. Do you tend to brood about things which make you angry? 13. Does your temper ever get out of control? 14. Has your temper ever got you in trouble? 15. Do you believe that it does you good to get rid of your anger? 16. Would you allow someone to comfort you if you were crying? 17. Do you get cross quite easily? 18. Do you touch someone you love at least once a day? 19. Do you enjoy physical signs of affection? 20. Do you ever get broody when you see small babies? 21. Would you happily hold hands in public with someone you cared for? 22. Do you enjoy being massaged? 23. Do you regularly tell those whom you love how you feel? 24. Have you ever had a pet of which you were very fond? 25. Do you enjoy being kissed and hugged by people you love? 26. Do you ever laugh out loud when you are watching funny films? 27. Do you ever tap your feet while listening to Music? 28. Do you often have the last clap at concerts, sports events and the like? 29. Do you ever shout encouragement to sports or TV heroes? 30. Can you remember when you last really laughed and enjoyed yourself?

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Analysis

Score 17 to 30

Your attitude towards your emotions is a healthy one. You aren't ashamed to let your emotions

show occasionally, and you will undoubtedly be much healthier because of this attitude. You

are likely to be a good social advisor.

Score 8 to 16

You know how to let your emotions show but you still find it difficult to do so as often as you

should. You should be prepared to let your emotions out more often. When you feel sad let

yourself cry, when you feel angry, let your anger show, when you feel happy allow a smile to

cross your face. Allowing your emotions out in this way will do wonders to your physical and

mental health.

Score 7 or less

You are definitely very uptight. You really do need to allow your emotions flow out a little.

There isn't anything really wrong in allowing people to know how you feel.

Personality colours

Colours - What is your favorite colour?

The colour you choose is what you could identify yourself with.

Choose your favorite colour to see what psychologists can know about you from your colour

preference.

Black

Blue

Green

Orange

Pink

Purple

Red

Yellow

White

Analysis

Black is one of the most beautiful colours and yet it is the absence of colour. Black want

everything done in detail. If a job needs finishing, these are the people to finish it. These

personalities need leaders, though, to tell them what needs to be done. Under guidance, they

are able to get to the crux of the matter and solve very large problems. When put in a position

to find the mistakes of others, they are right at home.

They like puzzles, and finding others' mistakes brings out their tenacious spirits. Black will

sometimes intentionally find mistakes just so that they can repair them.

Sometimes, when one wears black, they do not want to be touched. Putting a barrier between

themselves and others is the purpose of this colour.

Black is a relief colour for most people, like "Mom's apple pie". It makes them feel comfortable

and even, in some cases, smaller, allowing them to hide from the world.

Blue is an emotional colour. Blue stay inside themselves and do not trust people very much.

They watch every move others make. Pale shades of blue show someone who wants everything

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in order. Their closet is immaculate. As blue moves to the deeper end of color, it becomes more

moody and shows it.

People who prefer this color frequently use their emotions to make decisions. They are also

easily affected by the moods of those around them. They sometimes expect you to feel down

whenever they are. Showing signs of co-dependency, they need you to be by their side

experiencing their feelings.

Green is the color of healing. Green want to help everyone. These people can usually be found

in the medical profession or some occupation which helps people. Preferring to watch rather

than to become involved in others business, they usually keep their thoughts secret. Others

see them as good listeners because of this quality. This characteristic makes them wonderful

counselors.

Greens make others feel at home in their house by putting them at ease immediately. They try

to take care of others and they want harmony in everyone's life. Greens make the best of

friends because they are jovial, caring and can keep a secret.

In order for Greens to feel good about themselves, they feel the need to help someone or

something. Nurturers by choice, they are the ones who take care of other people, animals and

plants.

Orange are nature lovers. Being sports minded, they love anything to do with the outdoors.

Taking long walks in the woods revives them. Trees and animals mean a lot to them and they

want to be a part of nature. Good professions for orange include farmers, ranchers, football

players, and guides.

People always say good things about these down- to- earth people. Although they may

sometimes invoke anger from others, it usually doesn't last very long. Who can remain mad at

someone so helpful?

Tending to support the underdog, they will try to help someone who they feel needs assistance.

Always aware of their surroundings, they tend to be more adventurous than most. Even though

they are impulsive and thoughtful, they generally are very much aware of what they are doing.

Learning and remembering through experience is a strong suit of theirs. Orange believe they

are meant to have all the good things in life.

Pink want to draw the little smiley faces on everything. Pink are usually either in a blissful state

or looking for one. Pink try to see the best in others. If they don't find something good in a

person, then there has to be a very good explanation in the pink's mind as to why not.

Pink quietly study the best way to approach problems and then take action. Pink see the world

through rose-colored glasses. The truth of the matter is that it might be nice if we could all put

those glasses on now and then. They are shy, very intelligent, hard-working people who wish

they were more part of the mainstream but are frightened of moving too quickly. Pink watch

what they do or say because they are afraid that others may see them in a harsh light. They try

to make everyone happy.

Purple is the colour of spirituality. Purple are always striving to be better than they consider

themselves to be, both on a spiritual, emotional and mental plane.

Needing more knowledge, they become avid readers. Trying to become what they think they

should be, they search their own lives and the lives of others to find the answers. The study of

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religions makes them feel as if they were accomplishing something bigger than themselves in

life. A good theological discussion is right up their alley.

Wanting to help as many people as they can, they are more than willing to give you the benefit

of their education. Trying to achieve perfection, they seem to struggle with themselves more

than most because they tend to be so critical of themselves.

Red is the colour for passion, energy, and money making. Red with orange overtones are

dynamic and love the outdoors and anything to do with people. Red with blue overtones can be

energetic people with high emotions.

Reds in their true red mode are sexy and seductive. Men prefer to watch a woman wearing red,

even though she may not be the most beautiful woman in the room.

It is also the colour for someone who wants to have power and be in control. Business people

who want to win wear this powerful colour at meetings, when they want to stand out. Red

makes one feel more energetic or activated. Stop signs are red. Red gets your attention. This

energetic personality craves attention and what's more they get it. Being quick with their

emotions, they may erupt into a temperamental volcano right in front of you, then simmer

down just as quickly.

Yellow are business-minded and want others to know they are well-educated. They strive to

attain success through anything that requires mental abilities. Making good leaders, they

generally make up their mind in a methodical way. Every detail needs to be analyzed before

they make a move. Any strategic game peaks their interest. Chess is the game for them.

Yellow may be a little stubborn. When the colour moves toward a mustard shade, yellow feel

that they are the only ones making the right decisions. This tends to make others a little

suspicious of their motives.

The true yellow make wise decisions after considering all points of view. Women would rather

be in business, than mothers, but can do both and be quite adept at doing so. When these

people are under stress, they feel that they need to hide their emotions. If they show stress, it

is a sign of weakness and vulnerability. They try not to let you see them sweat.

Keeping to themselves without inviting many others into their lives, they generally only have

one or two good friends. These friends are usually people who are also business-minded,

although the true yellow depends on no one but themselves. Adoring tailored clothing, they

usually dress quite professionally. Although the women may add larger accessories, they dress

with a simple flair.

White is the colour of purity. The colour of new snow or light from above. What we fail to see is

that snow and light have impurities in them but seem to be the purest of all sights.

Shyness comes with this colour but it is not a true shyness. Waiting patiently for others to

notice them before they make their thoughts known, they tend to appear shy but in truth, they

are very outspoken. Virginal attitudes abound with these people. They feel pure no matter

what they do. The virtue of purity is attributed to them by others as well, whether they deserve

this characteristic or not. White feel they are right in their belief structures although they are

not sure they want to discuss those beliefs with others. The fact that they know they are right is

enough for them.

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Surname profile

What's in a surname? An attempt to examine your love

life based on the letters in your name.

A

You are not particularly romantic, you have no patience for flirting and can't be bothered with

someone who is trying to be coy, cute, demure, and subtly enticing. You are an up-front person.

Your mate's physical attractiveness is important to you. You find the chase and challenge to be

invigorating. You are passionate as well as being much more adventurous than you appear;

however, you do not go around advertising these qualities. Your physical needs are your

primary concern.

B

You give off vibes of lazy sensuality. You enjoy being romanced, wined, and dined. You are

very happy to receive gifts as an expression of the affection of your partner. You want to be

pampered and know how to pamper your mate. You are private in your expression of

endearments, particularly when it comes to lovemaking. You will hold off until everything meets

with your approval. You can control your appetite and abstain from sex if need be. You require

new sensations and experiences. You are willing to experiment.

C

You are a very social individual, and it is important for you to have a relationship. You require

closeness and togetherness. You must be able to talk to your partner at all times. You want the

object of your affection to be socially acceptable and good-looking. You see your lover as a

friend and companion. You need someone to appreciate and almost worship you. When this

cannot be achieved, you have the ability to go for long periods without having a partner in your

life. You are an expert at controlling your desires and doing without.

D

Once you decide that you want someone, you move full steam ahead in pursuit. You do not give

up your quest easily. You are nurturing and caring. If someone has a problem, this turns you on.

You are highly passionate, loyal, and intense in your involvements, sometimes possessive and

jealous. Sex to you is a pleasure to be enjoyed. The eccentric and unusual, having a free and

open attitude stimulates you.

E

Your greatest need is to talk. If your date is not a good listener, you have trouble relating. A

person must be intellectually stimulating or you are not interested in them. You need a friend for

a lover and a companion for a bedmate. You hate disharmony and disruption, but you do enjoy

a good argument once in a while - it seems to stir things up. You flirt a lot, for the challenge is

more important than the sexual act for you. But once you give your heart away, you are

uncompromisingly loyal. When you don't have a good lover to fall asleep with, you will fall

asleep with a good book. Sometimes, in fact, you prefer a good book.

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F

You are idealistic and romantic, putting your partner on a pedestal. You look for the very best

mate you can find. You are a flirt, yet once committed, you are very loyal. You are sensuous

and privately passionate. Publicly, you can be showy, extravagant, and gallant. You are born

romantic. Dramatic love scenes are a favorite fantasy pastime.

G

You are fastidious, seeking perfection within yourself and your partner. You respond to a

partner who is your intellectual equal or superior, and one who can enhance your status. You

enjoy playing love games - that is, when you find the time. Your duties and responsibilities take

precedence over everything else. You are sensuous and passionate however you may have

difficulty getting emotionally close with your partner.

H

You seek a mate who can enhance your reputation and earning ability. You will be very

generous to your partner once you have attained a commitment. Your gifts are actually an

investment in your partner. Before the commitment, though, you tend to be frugal in your

spending and dating. You are sensual and patient.

I

You have a great need to be loved, appreciated... even worshipped. You enjoy luxury,

sensuality, and love games. You look for partners who know what they are doing. You are not

interested in an amateur, unless that amateur wants a tutor. You are fussy and exacting about

having your desires satisfied. You are willing to experiment and try new modes of expression.

You get bored easily and thus require adventure and change. You are sensual and sometimes

downright lustful

J

You are blessed with a great deal of physical energy. There is

nothing to stop you, except maybe the stamina of your partner (you

could have danced all night.) You respond to the thrill of the chase

and the challenge of the mating game. You can carry on great

romances in your head. At heart you are a roamer and need to set

out on your own every so often. You will carry on long-distance

relationships with ease. You are idealistic and need to believe in

love. Intimacy seems to satisfy a need to be nurtured deep within.

K

You are secretive, self-contained, and shy. You are very sexy, sensual, and passionate, but you

do not let on to this. Only in intimate privacy will this part of your nature reveal itself. When it

gets down to the nitty-gritty, you are an expert. You know all the little tricks of the trade, can play

any role or any game, and take your love life very seriously. You don't fool around. You have

the patience to wait for the right person to come along.

L

You can be very romantic, attached to the glamour of love. Having a partner is of paramount

importance to you. You are free in your expression of love and are willing to take chances, try

new sexual experiences and partners, provided it's all in good taste. You must feel that your

partner is intellectually stimulating, otherwise you will find it difficult to sustain the relationship.

You require loving, cuddling, wining, and dining to know that you're being appreciated.

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M

You are emotional and intense. When involved in a relationship, you throw your entire being into

it. Nothing stops you; there are no holds barred. You are all consuming and crave someone who

is equally passionate and intense. You are willing to try anything and everything. Your supply of

energy is inexhaustible. You also enjoy mothering your mate.

N

You may appear innocent, unassuming, and shy; but we know that appearances can lie. In the

bedroom you are no novice but something of a skilled technician. You can easily go to

extremes, though, running the gamut from insatiability to boredom. You can be highly critical of

you mate, seeking perfection in both of you. It is not easy to find someone who can meet your

standards. You have difficulty expressing emotions and drawing close to partners.

O

You are very interested in sexual activities yet secretive and shy about your desires. You can

re-channel much of your energy into making money and/or seeking power. You can easily have

extended periods of celibacy. You are passionate and compassionate requiring the same

qualities from your mate. Having a partner is serious business; thus you demand intensity,

diversity, and are willing to try anything or anyone. Sometimes your passions turn to

possessiveness, which must be kept in check.

P

You are very conscious of social proprieties. You wouldn't think of

doing anything that might harm your image or reputation.

Appearances count. Therefore, you require a good-looking partner.

You also require an intelligent partner. Oddly enough, you may view

your partner as your enemy...a good fight stimulates those vibes.

You are willing to experiment and try new ways of doing things. You

are very social and sensual; you enjoy flirting and need a good deal

of physical gratification.

Q

You require constant activity and stimulation. You have tremendous physical energy. It is not

easy for a partner to keep up with you. You are enthusiastic and tend to be attracted to people

of other ethnic groups. You need romance, hearts and flowers, and lots of conversation.

R

You need someone who can keep pace with you and who is your intellectual equal - the smarter

the better. You prefer a great mind to a great body. However, physical attractiveness is also

very important to you. You have to be proud of your partner. You are a very passionate person

although this is not apparent to others. If your new partner is not all that great in bed, you are

willing to serve as teacher. You can be a very demanding playmate.

S

For you, it is business before pleasure. If you are in any way bothered by career, business, or

money concerns, you find it very hard to relax and get into the mood. You can be romantically

idealistic to a fault and are capable of much sensuality. But you never lose control of your

emotions. You are very careful and cautious before you give your heart away - and your body,

for that matter. Once you make the commitment, though, you stick like glue.

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T

You are very sensitive, private, and passive; you like a partner who takes the lead. Music, soft

lights, and romantic thoughts excite you. You fantasize and tend to fall in and out of love. When

in love, you are romantic, idealistic, mushy, and extremely changeable. You enjoy having your

senses and your feelings stimulated, titillated, and teased. You are a great flirt. You can make

your relationships fit your dreams, all in your own head.

U

You are enthusiastic and idealistic when in love. When not in love, you are in love with love,

always looking for someone to adore. You see romance as a challenge. You are a roamer and

need adventure, excitement, and freedom. You enjoy giving gifts and you are willing to put your

partner's pleasures above your own.

V

You are individualistic, and you need freedom, space, and

excitement. You wait until you know someone well before

committing yourself. Knowing someone means psyching them out.

You feel a need to see what makes them tick. You are attracted to

eccentric types. There is often an age difference between you and

your partner. You respond to danger, thrills, and suspense.

W

You are very proud, determined, and you refuse to take no for an answer when pursuing love.

Your ego is at stake. You are romantic, idealistic, and often in love with love itself, not seeing

your partner as he or she really is. You feel deeply and throw all of yourself into your

relationships. Nothing is too good for your partner.

X

You need constant stimulation because get bored bore quickly. You can handle more than one

relationship at a time with ease. You talk while you make love. You can have the greatest love

affairs, all by yourself, in your own head.

Y

You are sexual, sensual, and very independent. If you can't have it your way, you will forgo the

whole thing. You want to control your relationships, which doesn't always work out too well. You

respond to physical stimulation, enjoy necking and spending hours just touching, feeling, and

exploring. However, if you can spend your time making money, you will give up romantic

pleasures for the moment. You need to prove to yourself and your partner what a great lover

you are. You want feedback on your performance. You are an open, stimulating, romantic

bedmate.

Z

You are very romantic, idealistic, and somehow you believe that to love means to suffer. You

wind up serving your mate or attracting people who have unusual troubles. You see yourself as

your partner's savior. You are sincere, passionate, lustful, and dreamy. You can't help falling in

love and like to fantasize.

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Love can be magic, but magic can sometimes be an illusion.

Love me and the world is mine.

Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by

embracing one another.

To the world you may be someone, but to someone you way be the

world.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Love is the shortest distance between hearts.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love.

And the one thing we can never give enough of is

love.

I love you not because of who you are, but because

of who I am when I am with you.

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What Does LOVE Mean to You?

LOVE For me, love is like a flower which never stops growing

and a lot of moments of happiness next to the most important persons in

my life. When I utter love, it is just a simple noun, a common word in

the dictionary like many others, but LOVE is much more complex, as it

cant be explained even in a million words.

For me, love means a bird that flies all over the world and falls in

love with the blue sky, the green mountains and the red roses, a little girl

with a forget-me-not flower in her hand, a reason for life, a hope for

waking up every morning, a wish to leave and discover new people and

new places that can make me happy. Love makes us live in our own

universe where Beauty, Wisdom and Hope reign, protecting us from

mean and evil people and letting us build our world where we can live in

peace and harmony with all the people we care for.

Love is the most beautiful feeling, but also the most complex one.

God created us with Love, which is the true King of the World. It can

be the fire of feelings but, at the same time the cooling of the break-up,

thats why it can be considered the flame of life. Why do I love?

Because love means confidence, care, because it is a dream from which

we never really awake and which gives meaning to our lives. Thats why

I love. I love my family, I love God, I love my friends, I love nature and

I love Life.

Love cant be seen and cant be touched, its like the wind; still, it

is the best thing which can happen in our lives. Love is a gift and we

should be thankful to God for giving it to us, mortals.

Gngu Mlina

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For me love means a bit more than any other feeling. It comes, it goes, but when I say love I dont just think of the passionate feeling between two lovers . Love is more

than that, love is inspiration as Plato said, it is the fuel of our imagination.

How many beautiful things have been created in the name of love?

Buildings, structures of all kinds, stories, music, art, all beautiful things that stand for

creation had a pinch of love in it.

Everything there is, is alive, and is also done with love. Love your brother as you love

thyself, love who you are and what you are doing and you will shine above all. As

Martin Luther King Jr. said: Love is the feeling of peace that surpasses hate and opens

the door for reason and cooperation.

I do not know what else I should add . I only remember that a friend once told me that

love is so beautiful that it is practically impossible for us ,mortals, to express it in words ,

because they are not enough to fully comprehend its complexity and depth.

Purice Florin

X F Philology English Intensive

I truly believe that love comes in many different forms. The word love can have a variety of related but, at the same time, distinct meanings, depending on the

context. It is very important in our life because it ultimately defines us. We first have to

love ourselves in order to be able to love anyone or anything.

For me, love is the emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. It first starts

with a beautiful friendship which leads to all sorts of mixed feelings, butterflies in the

stomach, kissing, hugging and ultimately to dozens of children. You are most of the time

happy, fulfilled, safe, exalted, but sometimes love can turn into obsession and leads to

serious things like suicide or murder.

Overall, love is not always easy, with rainbows and unicorns and, as a 5 year-old child

said, Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on cologne and they go out

and smell each other.

Palaghe Anca-Raluca

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For me love is a book that never ends,

Love is a road with no dead ends.

Love is a fairytale and a nightmare,

A warm embrace and a harsh stare.

For me love is a rose with many thorns,

Love is understanding, love is scorn.

Love is a fullhouse, love is a royal flush,

Love is a scream, love is a hush.

For me love is a bird, beautiful and free,

Love is the chains binding you and me.

For me love is painful and downright annoying,

Love is the reason that keeps me going.

Love is a victory, a celebration,

Love is a very strange creation.

For me love is a hug, a sigh, a yell,

For me love is heaven and love is hell.

Ceangu tefana

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D e a r d i a r y ,

I never used to believe in love, especially in love at first sight because I thought it was so difficult and hard to manage the way you want. I was running and running on the streets back home in the pouring rain, imagining I would find him in front of my house, soaking wet, cold and tired. We would have cried for our love and would have hugged for all the time we hadn`t been together. I went into the house, I poured myself a cup of tea and I sat down at my desk. I started wondering if I should talk to him, but how could I do this better than writing him a letter? It sounded like this: "How many souls have followed you and got lost? Here's the deal, let's remember the past for one minute: Let's lock ourselves in the room and put the key somewhere we won't remember, let's talk about you, about me, about us; what do you want to do, where to go? Let's pretend we are not ourselves when all the people around us are still themselves, and change the world into a rainbow. Everybody has the right to have their own rainbow. Let's hide from the world, somewhere far away, and imagine we are on the moon and over the moon. Let's disguise and go to a fancy dress ball were you will search and find me. Let's meet our parents and tell them we are going to spend the rest of our lives together. Let's lie to them, as we lie to ourselves. Let's move into our house. House that we wanted so much. Lets paint it, and frighten each time we switch on the light. Let's wait for the holidays and give each other gifts, let's feel their spirit, the way we haven't felt so far: together. Let me take care of you as always, and tell you "I love you" before you fall asleep. Come, fall asleep into my arms and in the morning tell me you love me, too. Let's get a dog. Or a cat. Or a dog and a cat and love them both. Let's clean the house one day, let's see how much it takes and then well spend the whole evening making mess. Let's call all our friends and have a party and be appreciated for the love we share. Let's fly by plane and break the rules while you are take a picture of me, and Im taking a picture of you. Let's go out on a shopping spree and buy the most unuseful things, from the smallest to the largest and waste money, and then regret . Let's choose our song and listen to it whenever we are alone. Do you remember the song that once brought us together?

Let me remember that I`m still beside you, even when you shout at me, when you blame me, when you forget about me. Let me remember that I will still be with you when you destroy me, when you want me to leave. Let me cry in front of you and ask you for your help, and thus you could see how weak I am inside. Wipe my tear and let me remember that you are my first and only love.

I couldn't give that letter to him .Everybody told me that would be wrong. But wait, in the end, what`s right? I think it's time for us to make mistakes and then regret, and make them all again, its time to fall in love and not to be loved back, time to change my mind again and again because nothing is forever. It's my time to dream, thinking that dreams really come true, my time to be disappointed by everybody and to think I am going crazy, desperately wanting to scream and feel heard, to fight for what I want and win. However, I`m writing this because I had a bad day, and you, dear diary, are the only one who knows better than anybody how much I like to smudge your pages with my worries. I have always imagined that one of these days we will meet in our place, the same bench we first met and Im sure that day will come. It will be wonderful to see him again , unchanged, he will be dressed in my favourite brown anorak like always and he will have the same wonderful smile which gave me butterflies in my stomach . He will come to me, hug me and apologize for the long time he needed to realise how much he loves me, we will talk a lot about what has happened to us, we will crack jokes and we will take pity on each other. It will be just perfect, my dear diary!

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Dear Diary,

Ive been thinking lately How is it possible to have something in mind

that is so powerful at first, that stands like a goal in ones life, and all of a

sudden, something to come blazing by and burn everything to ashes? And

more importantly, how can it be that the leftovers, as I like to call them,

arent particles of ash, but seeds? Yes seeds. Heh, I know, I know. Youre starting to get used to me

talking like that lately for no apparent reason. As you know, Ive always been frank to you, as I will

today. But, still, today is the day when youll finally understand the reason behind all these character

fluctuations that Ive been going through.

Its simple, really! Ive met a girl. Did I ever think it would change me in such a drastic way? No, I

didnt. Did I ever consider that everything I know would be turned around, but still facing the same

way? Its complicated, but Id like you to remember that I stated a few months back that I had to wait

until I could met someone who is pretty, kind, smart, loving and sincere. We both concluded that it was

very hard to find such a girl, but it was worth waiting for. I was having plans to love her as much as it

was earthly possible and to cherish every day I would have spent with her. Well that happened in a

way.

She was the top of her class, gorgeous- looking, pure-hearted and with a fantastic crush on me. I couldnt

want more. I dedicated every minute of my life to her from that point on. I didnt want to cheat the

relationship in any way, I just wanted to be myself, as I imagined myself being But starting with that

moment, I realized that I had no idea of the sheer emotions and feelings I would come across. I talked

to my friends, but none of them had anything to say about that. I talked to you, and again, the

compendium of research, information and memories stored in your thin pages was unable to explain what

had struck me. I looked on the web, as I thought that, obviously, thats the place for all answers. I didnt

manage to get any palpable information out of it either, but on a forum, a young woman had the same

symptoms as me. She was also dumbstruck by the sheer intensity of the feeling she had after the first

date with her boyfriend (to whom she is married now, the post being relatively old). After nobody could

answer the post, she herself was the one who closed the thread after posting a last sentence. And I quote:

ladies and gentlemen, I am getting married to Tom (her boyfriend at the time). I can safely assume that

everything, from the start till now, was true love. Thank you everyone for the concern and the dedication!

xoxo.

So can that be the answer? I started searching deeper, but this time not somewhere on the web or in

books, but into my own head and heart. I started realizing that my definition for love which was placed

in my head like an inception in the last few dates Ive had with numerous other girls, was seriously

outdated and incorrect! No standard that Ive placed for myself prior to meeting her have remained

untouched. I feel the same things I thought I would, only much stronger.

I wake up every day thinking about her, Im making plans about marrying her and having children. I like

fooling around like a child whenever I am in her presence and that doesnt make me feel stupid. I enjoy

spending time with her more than I enjoy watching my favorite football teams clashing in a derby. And

you, diary, should know the scale of the proportions after Ive just said that!

If you had asked me how I was feeling a year ago, I would have told that I was happy. Now Im telling

you that I was wrong. Only now can I tell you that Im happy, with every single piece of heart and soul

that I have.

That, my dear diary, is love. And I believe in it.

Talk to you tomorrow. Phone is ringing.

Stefan Balcanu

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D e a r d i a r y ,

Today is one of those days when all I want to do is lie on the couch, watch love movies and

smile, thinking of what is happening to me. You know, we all have moments in life when we are

sad, and troubles keep coming, but we always need to remember that God has something good in

store for everybody.

I didnt use to believe in this, until recently, when something unexpected happened. Even though

there are billions of people out there, sometimes nobody but one of them can entirely change you

and your perception of life. And this person usually shows up when you least expect it. Ive

heard this before, but I thought it was nothing but empty words, until HE came into my life. But

who is he? Maybe he is all I have ever wanted, for me he is special, he made me feel something,

he helped me forget, he helped me forgive. At first I only had a crush on him, but then he made

me think about a serious relationship, he made me suffer, he made me happy, he made me cry.

We met two months ago, but since then we have been inseparable, because we get on like a

house on fire. Weve done so many things together in such a short period of time that everything

reminds me of him. Im aware of the fact that I wont be that happy for a long time from now on,

because whenever it occurs, first love never lasts. But I also know that it is unique and never

forgotten, and who said this was absolutely right. Who doesnt remember the first person one

used to be in love with? The first kiss or the first I love you shyly told? And thats why I live

every moment to its fullest and I do my best to do this right, because in a few years I would like

to have beautiful memories. I would like to say Hey, he is my old flame! and smile. Now, it is

a bit weird. Its more like a childish game, necessary for what will happen in our future lives.

Ive got hundreds of ideas crossing my mind; ideas about how to express what I feel for him.. but

I cant decide on one of them. This might sound strange, but when I saw him first I didnt feel

what I usually feel when I meet ordinary people. Something was telling me that I should talk to

him, that something was going to happen. I followed my instincts because nothing wrong could

happen. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadnt done this. Thinking of this

makes me sometimes follow my instincts more often. It also makes me believe in luck...and

especially in love at first sight. Maybe it was destiny. Maybe we were meant to be together . I

dont know, and nor do I want to know. All the magic will be gone if I try to explain those

things. So I choose taking it as a fact, and enjoying it every moment of my life.

Well, dear diary, I think that`s all for now. All the things put down to paper made me kind of

miss him, so forget what I said at the beginning, about how Id like to spend this day. I`m going

to call him up and see if he would like to go out.

Hleva Andra

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LOVE is all around

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my

wife treats me like toxic waste.

David Bissonette

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to

let him keep her.

Sacha Guitry

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin;

they just cant face each other, but still they stay together.

Hemant Joshi

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, youll be happy. If

you get a bad one, youll become a philosopher.

Socrates

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.

Dumas

The great question which I have not been able to answer is: What does a

woman want ?

Sigmund Freud

I had some words with my wife , and she had some paragraphs with me.

Anonymous

I dont worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.

Sam Kinison

Theres a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking.

Its called marriage.

James Holt McGavran

Ive had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one