Page - 35 - in Tina and Amir & Ella - English

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 “Look at their clothes and how skinny they are!” Isabell said. “I am not against foreigners, but I do not like to hear Turk- ish and Arabic – all those alien languages in our school all the time.” Marco said. “It is as if we are excluded.” I looked at them and did not understand what was going on. “What do you mean? Fathme and Jelena live in my street.” I said. “But they are different.” Marco said. Valentin called out: “Watch yourself!” Emanuel shouted out: “They are from another country. They shouldn’t be here and my father said he had lost his job because so many foreigners are here.” “But we are foreigners too, whenever we go to another country.” Valentin said. With big eyes I looked at them: “I do not understand. Fathme and Jelena go to our school like we do. What do you have against them?” Now Marco said to me: “You don’t understand anything!” Emanuel, Mario and Marco went away. I felt weird and was confused. A few minutes ago I was so happy and now…? What did I do wrong? Why shouldn’t I talk to Fathme and Jelena? I thought they were very nice and by the way it was not Ema- nuel’s, Markus’ and Mario’s job to decide with whom I talk. It was my right to choose with whom I talk to. One moment I thought of Valentin. It was something about the way he presented himself. His curly brown hair and blue eyes – first he looked as if he couldn’t make up his mind about what he was going to do. But then he somehow supported me.