MY FRIEND MELISA & ARKADAŞIM MELİSA

BİRİNCİ BÖLÜM ( FIRST PART )   

 Melisa adında bir arkadaşım var. Melisa 9 yaşında, bizim alt katımızda yaşıyor. Melisa’nın 3 yaşında erkek kardeşi var. Ama kardeşini eskiden hiç sevmezdi. Hep kardeşiyle dalga geçerdi. “Sen yapamazsın, sen bilemezsin” derdi ona. Kardeşi de hep üzülür ağlardı. Annesi de üzülürdü bu duruma. Çok defa Melisa’ya bu yaptığının yanlış olduğunu anlatmaya çalıştı. Ama Melisa hiç dinlemedi. Kardeşiyle dalga geçmeye devam etti. Ben de söyledim Melisa’ya. “Bu yaptığın yanlış” dedim. Ama beni de dinlemedi.Aslında Melisa akıllı, çalışkan bir kız. Okulda dersleri başarılı.Ama okuldaki arkadaşlarıyla da önceden arası iyi değildi.Onlarla da hep kardeşine yaptığı gibi dalga geçerdi. Tek arkadaşı bendim. Bazen benimle de dalga geçerdi ama ben O’nun aslında iyi biri olduğunu biliyordum. 

             Sonra her şey değişti. Bir gün apartmana bizim yaşımızda yeni bir kız taşındı.

                                MY FRIEND MELISA
                I have a friend, her name is Melisa. She is 9 years old. She lives at the lower floor. She has a brother. His name is Can, he is 3. But she didn’t use to love her brother. She always made fun of him. She used to say “ You can’t do this, you don’t know that…” . Can used to get upset and cried because of her sister’s behaviours. Their mother was also used to get upset to this situation. Melisa’s mother tried to talk to Melisa many times about her behaviours but she didn’t listen to her mother. She kept on kidding him . I warned my friend Melisa, too. I told her that she was doing wrong. But she didn’t listen to me , either.

In fact Melisa was a clever and hardworking girl. She got high marks at school. But she used to make fun of her school friends, too. I was her only friend. Sometimes she even made fun of me, but I knew that in fact Melisa was a good girl.

                One day everything changed. A new girl moved to our building….

SECOND PART

One day everything changed. A new girl moved to their building. This girl was Greek. Her name was Athena. Also her religion was different.
One day while Athena was walking downstairs she heard someone screaming. It was Melisa. So Athena rushed towards her to help her. She found Melisa crying and she asked her what happened. Melisa said : << I think I broke my leg>>. Athena called Melisa’s mother and then she called for an ambulance too. The ambulance took Melisa to the hospital. Two days later, Athena visited Melisa at home.
She rang the bell (she was a bit hesitant) and Melisa opened the door. Melisa said: << Hosgeldin.Gel…>> Athena didn’t understand her because she spoke Turkish. Melisa asked her to come in. They started to talk about their daily routine. Melisa suggested Athena to come with her family to the mosque and pray together but Athena’s answer was negative. She said that she goes to church in order to pray. “Ok” she said. “No problem… I like you and I want you to be my friend”.
Melisa’s mother was happy too because Melisa showed respect and she agreed with that new friendship. Melisa also stopped making fun with her brother as well. Athena was from a different country, a different nationality, a different religion but SHE was her daughter’s new friend, a “different” friend who helped her daughter to change and show respect to others…

This book was written by the students of

Turkey- Demirci Primary School ( first part ) &

Greece – Skoutari Primary Shcool students (second part)

as a common work of

” Valuable Stories Valuable Generations” eTwinning project