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I USED TO...

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NOW I'M USED TO...

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I used to think that a friend is just someone you spend a lot of time with, like simply being in the same class for consecutive years is enough to say your classmates are your friends, but it's not that simple...

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FRIENDS AND FRIENDSHIPS

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A true friend is not easy to find: he is someone you have shared a lot of experiences with, both the happy but also the sad ones, so it takes time and energy to build a strong and solid bond.

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A true friend is like a treasure: there aren't many around, so if you get a real one, you are richer then you think.

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English padlet no. 3                     My happy place 

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English padlet no. 3                     My happy place 

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My happy place is and will always be the mountains. But not any kind of mountain: I left my heart in the Dolomites.
Here I spent the most of my holydays with my family throughout the years and I had the rare opportunity to explore every uncharted places.
However, happyness is still an extremely subjective topic: for someone it is connected to a certain activity, for others it is related to certain people... Moreover it may be both something you share with your loved ones as well as a very intimate and secret state of being.
To my humble experience, I can state that the happiest moments of my days are those which I spend my time with my family, even though I'm not in the Dolomites.

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The United Nations Children's Found is a Non-profit Organization of social utility which was founded in 1946 with the duty to protect and provide for children's Rights all around the world, after the events of the Second World War.
Today it's headquarter is located in New York.
This organization must defend every child's right to be safe in his own country (both against war and climate crisis), to receive medical assistance as well as an adequate instruction. Most of all they must free every child from fear and violence.

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"An experience I have had in my life in which I had to communicate across cultures".
This year I had to share my house with my new Portuguese sister from Setouval, who attended this academic year in Italy before graduating in high school, the next year in Portugal.
During this time it was important for me to develop flexible thinking, for I had to live and talk with a girl who had an extremely different background than mine: I began to understand that behaviors that used to make no sense to me might make perfect sense to her. So I became not so quick to judge any more the things that appeared strange to me, such as the way to eat at the table and the way to dress. But through it all I managed to transform these situations of discomfort in richness for myself and to give myself new unexpected points of view.

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"Face saving strategies: what they are and how my friends and I use them" .
"Saving face" is a Sociological construct which basically implies to do or say things (or not to say things) in order to avoid embarrassment and losing social status. This simple concept was elaborated by a famous sociologist named Erving Goffman, also famous for his so called Stage theory, which sees social actors as masks on a stage.
Goffman states that people are concerned about the way other people see them, as well as we are worried about not only to conserve our own social status, but also the social status of our friends. So the Face-saving can be both active, when we actively help and rescue a person (or ourselves) from social embarrassment, and passive, when we avoid doing or saying things that might embarrass ourselves or others. Especially active face-saving is really important between friends. For example I use to get my little sister's back when she has to say something important to our parents or when she gets bad grades.