Page - 44 - in Tina and Amir & Ella - English

5 10 15 20 25 30 44 I was the first one to figure it out. The secret code was easy for me. Sonia was very slow and when I asked her if she needed help, she was holding her paper upside down and I told her that she would never find it like this. She gave me an angry look. “I don`t want to play this silly game.“ she said and threw the paper away. Finally all the others managed to discover the meaning of these messages. One was PEACE, the other was ACTIVITY and the last one was FRIENDSHIP. Marco suddenly said: “You`ll never guess who my best friend is.” Everybody looked at him. “Why is it such a secret? It is nice to have friends, it doesn’t matter who it is.” said Isabell. “Of course it matters”, said Valentin, “It is not so easy - you cannot be friends with everybody.” “A friend is someone I can play with and someone I can tell all my secrets to.” Dina said. “But I can also be friends with someone whose language I can`t even speak.” said Isabell “Like Isaac?” Sonia asked. Isabell blushed. “He is ok. Sometimes he is really funny, I do not understand him so well, but he fools around all the time and we have fun.” “I do not know if you can call that friendship. You do not even know him and he comes from a different country and he is black.” Sonia said. “How can it be possible that you call him a friend, if you do not know him and you cannot talk properly to him?” Marco said. “I do not know exactly what you mean,“ I said, “But I know exactly what Isabell means. It is an understanding, even without language – you can just have fun and play.” I looked