Page - 11 - in Tina and Amir & Ella - English

5 10 15 20 25 30 11 Andy turned to Tina and said: “Go away, you…!” “I’m not going anywhere. And I want you to leave Amir alone or we’ll tell your teacher!” Tina answered. Andy just laughed at Tina and Fabio pushed her away. Tina shouted: “Just go away!” First I was standing there as if I was paralysed, but then I suddenly grabbed Tina’s hand and pulled her away calling out loudly: “You will never do this again!” When Tina and I walked on she said: “Now you have to tell your parents and I will tell mine. Think about it, if we do not tell, Andy and Fabio will go on bullying.” So Tina and I went first to my mother and told her about. She immediately called Tina’s mother. But was this the best solution? There must have been some other way, I thought to myself. The next day our teacher came in and told me to go to the principal’s office. I went there. Tina, Andy and Fabio were in his office already. The principal looked at me and Tina and said “I have heard what happened. It was very important to tell your parents.” Now Tina and I had to report the bullying case and the principal made us write a report about it. I thought that would be the end of it, but it turned out that Andy and Fabio had to write a report too. Suddenly Andy and Fabio said: “We are very sorry.” But later that day I heard them talking about me like I wasn’t there, calling me names. The next few days we talked about rules in school and about things that we can do about bullying. Then we even talked about cyber-bullying and where we can call for help. Our teacher was quite cool. She announced that we will have an anti-bullying workshop together with some other kids.