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Zadanie 4.

One.

So me pe ople are la te be cau se they sim ply don’t ha ve eno ugh ti me to do eve ry thing. The on ly way

to chan ge this is to stop do ing so much. Fa ce re ali ty – you can not get your who le list do ne. Fi gu re out
what’s most im por tant and just get that do ne. Tell the pe ople who de pend on you – li ke your boss – that
you can on ly do what you ha ve ti me for, and things at the bot tom of the list will not get do ne:
a re ali ty check for eve ry one in your li fe.

Two.

He re’s a gre at thing to say: „Excu se me, I ha te to cut you off, but I ha ve an ap po int ment”. It is

hard to cut so me one off, but they will re spect you for stic king to a sche du le. The go od news is that this
me ans it’s per fec tly ac cep ta ble in work li fe to say this short sentence. Get com for ta ble do ing it at work
and then you can do it at ho me, too.

Three.

As su me eve ry thing will ta ke a lit tle lon ger than your first es ti ma te. This will either ma ke you

ri ght on ti me for eve ry thing, or it’ll ma ke you a lit tle ear ly. Pe ople who do things ear ly are calm, or ga -
ni zed, and al ways re ady. Not a bad pla ce to be.

Fo ur.

If you block out ti me to be so me whe re then you won’t be do ing so me thing el se when it’s ti me to

go. I ama zed my self when I tried to do this. I di sco ve red I had eno ugh on my sche du le to last 48 ho urs
a day. It wo uld ha ve be en im pos si ble for me to be on ti me for any thing.

Fi ve.

Why do you let your self be la te? It is di sre spect ful and ma kes you lo ok unor ga ni zed and out of

con trol. Why can’t you keep con trol over your ti me? So much abo ut be ing on ti me is ac tu al ly abo ut self -
-know led ge. Often, we are sca red to ma ke the de ci sions that we must ma ke in or der to get con trol over
our ti me and be co me so me one who does things on sche du le. But the re is no other way to run a li fe.

Adaptedfromblog.penelopetrunk.com

Za da nie 5.

TheBeanTrees, first no vel by Bar ba ra King so lver is an in tri gu ing sto ry of an excep tio nal wo man.
Ma riet ta Gre er li ves with her mom in a small, po or vil la ge in the hills of Ken tuc ky. Most of the girls

of Ma riet ta’s age ne ver fi nish se con da ry scho ol. They get pre gnant, le ave scho ol, and are stuck in the
vil la ge fo re ver with a bad hus band and a mi se ra ble li fe. But Ma riet ta is dif fe rent. She thinks and lo oks
unli ke the other girls. She fi ni shes scho ol, gets a job in the lab of the area ho spi tal, and sa ves her
mo ney as much as she can. Then she buys an old bro ken down Volks wa gen Be etle with no win dows
and no back se at, and le aves town fo re ver. She dri ves as the crow flies, not kno wing whe re she wants
to go. Along the way she de ci des to chan ge her na me to Tay lor, after one of the pla ces she pas ses.
Tay lor fi nal ly stops for a rest in Okla ho ma.

Une xpec te dly, a wo man ap pe ars, knoc king on the wind shield of Tay lor’s car. The wo man opens the

car do or and puts a ba by on the front se at next to Tay lor, say ing, „He re. Ta ke this ba by”. Tay lor tries
to ar gue with the wo man, but it’s im pos si ble. She is so sur pri sed, she do esn’t know what to do, so she
tries to find a low -pri ced pla ce to stay for the ni ght and to think things over.

Of co ur se, on ce Tay lor starts ca ring for the ba by, a girl she na mes Tur tle be cau se the ba by grabs on

to her li ke a tur tle, she de ci des to ke ep her. The two con ti nue dri ving west until they re ach Tuc son,
Ari zo na. The re they me et so me in te re sting and sli gh tly stran ge pe ople. Mat tie, a gran ny who runs
a used ti re shop, is a kind per son who ta kes ca re of Tay lor and Tur tle; she gi ves Tay lor a job. But
Tay lor no ti ces the re’s so me thing a lit tle we ird abo ut Mat tie’s ho use. New pe ople se em to co me and go
the re all the ti me. As Tay lor slow ly di sco vers, Mat tie is hel ping war re fu ge es from Gu ate ma la esca pe
tor tu re, pri son and the US Im mi gra tion au tho ri ties. The no vel ends with a sur pri sing and ten sion fil led
dri ve back to ugly Okla ho ma. How Tay lor so lves the pro blems, and le arns to cre ate her own fa mi ly from
an odd ran ge of pe ople, ma kes the sto ry amu sing, in cre di ble, emo tio nal, and me mo ra ble.

AdaptedfromBridge 09/2006

Za da nie 6.

Wo uldn’t you lo ve to get in si de a bul ly’s he ad and see what ma kes him tick? Whe re do es his an ger
co me from? If you met Troy to day, you mi ght not su spect that he was on ce a bul ly, but he’ll tell you
he re how bul ly ing chan ged his li fe.

In te rvie wer:

What kind of kids did you cho ose to bul ly?

Troy:

I gu ess I bul lied the usu al pe ople. I bul lied the smel ly pe ople, the „we ird” pe ople, and the pe ople

who we re dif fe rent.

In te rvie wer:

Why the se par ti cu lar pe ople?

Troy:

I think I bul lied the pe ople who let them se lves be bul lied. Pe ople wi tho ut self -re spect or pe ople

whom I didn’t re spect for wha te ver re asons. For this re ason (mo re li ke ly be cau se I was one of
them), I ne ver bul lied the „nerds” or the „ge eks” – that is the pe ople who we re fond of com pu ters and
scien ce.

In te rvie wer:

Why do you think you we re a bul ly?

Troy:

I was a bul ly be cau se it was the co ol thing to do. A go od por tion of it wasn’t phy si cal bul ly ing.

Mo re often than not, I bul lied pe ople psy cho lo gi cal ly and emo tio nal ly. When it be ca me mo re than they
co uld han dle, I en ded up be ing the phy si cal bul ly as well. I star ted out as what was pro ba bly the class
clown.

In te rvie wer:

Did any of the se kids ever stand up to you?

Troy:

I had ma ny pe ople stand up to me. Even tu al ly, I en ded up be ating them down. Then so me thing

chan ged. When so me one sto od up as I got ol der, I re spec ted that. And so me of the se pe ople be ca me my
clo sest friends.

In te rvie wer:

What con se qu en ces did you suf fer from be ing a bul ly?

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Troy:

This qu estion brings te ars to my ey es to this day. I cre ated com ple xes in pe ople who car ry them

aro und to this day. I on ce got in to a fi ght with a kid I grew up with. He was the smar test kid in scho ol,
but I be at him to a blo ody pulp. He ne ver re co ve red emo tio nal ly and drop ped out of scho ol be cau se of the
sha me. It’s hard to de al with the fact that things you did as a stu pid kid will ha ve and ha ve had long la sting
ef fects on pe ople.

In te rvie wer:

I’m su re you’re a gre at guy now!

Troy:

I don’t know. I ne ver fi ght now and walk away from fi ghts. I am a scien tist wor king at a bio tech -

no lo gy firm, but it se ems I ha ve this „lo ok” that says, „bring it on!”.

In te rvie wer:

What ma kes you walk away from fi ghts now?

Troy:

For tu na te ly, my mind and my re spect for pe ace ha ve grown as well. I am told mo re often than not

that I am a gre at guy, but I al ways say that it’s be cau se the re was a ti me not so long ago that I re al ly,
re al ly wasn’t. I co uld say that my expe rien ces from the past sha ped me and my cur rent be ha vio ur.

In te rvie wer:

Any thing you wo uld li ke to add?

Troy:

You know what? I re ali zed that pe ople star ted li king me mo re and I li ked my self mo re when I use

my mind and not my fi sts.

Adaptedfromwww.preteenagerstoday.com

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