Monday 31 March 2014

Teenage years: the best and the worst years of our life?

Some people say that teenage years can be great …others say the exact opposite.
       In my opinion, teenage years are hard and difficult because of school and friends. School can be difficult, especially, when we are 14 and over. Teachers put too much pressure on us and we feel nervous. Some friends aren’t really our friends. They pretend their feelings and when we realize it, it’s already late as we were already attached to them. It’s pretty bad!
      However, teenage years can also be amazing! Apart from false friends, we have our best true friends with us and we have so much fun with them! One thing that is good but also bad it’s our first love. We love someone more than anything and it’s terrifying when everything ends …

By Catarina Gomes, 9ºD


        Adults always say that teenage years are the best part of life. Maybe they are right , but sometimes, I really disagree with them.
        When someone becomes a teenager, he or she has to pass by all those body changes, and sometimes that’s not very comfortable.
         Then you go to 7th grade and you need to start studying a lot, spend all your weekends at home. It doesn’t matter how good the weather is outside, you have to stay at home studying.
         The worst parts of being a teenager are the mental problems with your family, your friends, boyfriend and girlfriend. And also when you see your friends smoking, drinking alcohol or taking drugs. You have to say no and try to make them stop doing that.
         However, teenage years can bring really good things as you don’t have to worry about money problems and you have more holidays than adults. This is the time when you can have lots of fun. I think that’s the best part of being a teenager!

By Inês Saldanha, 9ºD

           Teenage years can be great but they can also be difficult times. The best of teenage years is that you are young! When you are young, you can go out with your friends, have fun and you don’t have to worry about anything. Anything except for school! When you are an adult you can’t do this because you have more
responsibilities. Being a teenager can be good. You can just sit back and relax. Spend hours watching TV or surfing the Net.
          However, being a teen can also be the worst time of your life… When you are a teenager, you are under a lot of stress. You worry about exams and school grades. Sometimes you feel like you’re not good enough and everything you do is wrong. You worry that your parents won’t feel proud because your grades aren’t as good as they wanted to. Teens feel pressured by their own friends to smoke or take drugs and they feel like they have to do it to fit in. Some are bullied or cyberbullied and feel horrible about themselves.
         I think there are good things and bad things about being a teenager but you just have to enjoy it while you can. If you don’t, you can be missing the best time of your life and you’ll regret it. Don’t let people put you down. Teenage years are too short to care about mean things people say that aren’t true.

By Luisa Lages, 9ºD

     Being a teenager can be both wonderful and terrible. I hope I’ll remember my teenage years as incredible times, but the truth is that that may not happen.
 Teenagers are like a rollercoaster of feelings and emotions. In a minute, we can be smiling and in the next one, crying. That happens because we go through a lot at a very young age. Sometimes, more than we can handle with.
I think people say that the teenage times are the best because we are (at that time) old enough to know what’s bad and young enough to do it anyway.
We’re free and the world’s an open book, just like we are too. But I think it can also be the worst of times because there’s a lot going on inside our minds. Sometimes we’re bullied, go through depressions or anxiety problems, and that is terrible. No one should have to go through that.

I guess what I’m trying to say is: teenage years aren’t perfect, but they’re definitely worth it. 

By Carolina OLiveira,9ºA 

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