Die Welt ist so lehr, wenn man nur Berge, Flüsse und Städte darin denkt, aber hier und da jemand zu wissen, der mit uns übereinstimmt, mit dem wir auch stilschweigend fortleben: Das macht uns dieses Erdenrund erste zu einem bewohnten Garten.
GOETHE, Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.
Samuel JOHNSON, Boswell's Life of Johnson

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Some thoughts of Planet Friendship members
( English or Spanish )

Lonely you on my mind
How could I let you go?
All that we've been through
I still need you
Next to me
I said so many things
I did not mean to say
And although we tried to talk
Now that realize
I need you with me
I'F got to find a way
To make it up to you
EIIEN, Port Nolloth in South-Afrika

The language of Friendship
In friendship
There's a language
Only with the heart
Maybe that's to take
Good and faithful friends
For granted
Of gratitude
Are stolen
By one hand
By one heart
To another
Josephine Bosman, South Africa

I have a friend we called Fabian Johnson. We are very close just like two couples but we are not couples. We have a friendship that we share. I've written this letter to make friends and share it openly like Fabian and me. Friendship is not only a thing, it is special.
Evin Farmer, South Africa

It's about being faithful to your friend.
Friends must be loyal to one another.
My friend and me always tell each other about our secrets.

A friend is someone who helps you when you are in need.
A friend is their who you can talk to about your problems.
I think friends are there to remind us about our problems in life.
Friend can be a big pain ass and sometimes they can be like a brother to you.

FRIENDS CAN MAKE YOU'RE A MESS.
BUT SOMETIMES THEY CAN HELP YOU AS YOU HELPED THEM.
Andre Isaacs, Nolloth in South Africa

If I had to pick up only one thing
To take across the sea,
I would pick a good friend,
To go along with me

A friend is more precious,
Than any other thing
She / He can make you feel secure
And makes your heart sing

Friendship means to care
And you always must be fair…

FRIENDS CAN MAKE OUR LIFE A MESS
BUT SOMETIMES THEY'RE THE BEST
FRIENDS GAVE US LOVE
AND IT IS SENT FROM ABOVE
Barlene Cloete, South African

Friends are people that you can trust and talk about every thing. Friends are people who will stand at your side through very hard times.Ž
People that call them your friends when you have money but when you lose it all they pretend to not know you. Friends are people that you can ask help from when you need it and they will always be there for you. I also think friends will be your friends no matter.
Mario Louw, South Afrika

Friendship is something you cherish. Real friendship is for keeps when you in need then certainly real friendship step forward. I once had a friend and we were the best of friends. We went swimming ride cars and played games we event went to the movies together.Everthing boys would do we did, many friends tried to tear us apart but they couldn't. Today we fight tomorrow we are friends. We were so close in fact we were soul mates.
Then one day something big happened, so big that I thought mankind couldn't repair it. We met a girl a gourges girl friendly at all. He has forgot about me. This girl had become the central point of his heart.
Two month later he got sick in fact terrible sick. The doctor find out that he has cancer. The girl we met disappear from the seen. I went to the hospital and visit him we talk about the things we had.
Two months after he was in hospital he died. I was sad but also happy because I had made up with my friend.
Shaun, 15 years old, Port Nolloth in Northern Cape in South Africa

What is a friend?
A friend is a person with whom you dare to be yourself.
Your soul can be naked with her. She seems to ask of you to
'put on' nothing, only to be what you are. She does not want you to be better or worse. When you are with her, you feel as a prisoner feels when he has been declared innocent. You do not have to be on your guard. You can say what you think, as long as it is genuinely 'you'. She understands those contradictions in your nature that lead others to misjudge you.
With her you can breathe freely and open up to her. If they need a friend you can show your loyalty to them. She understands. You do not have to be careful. You can abuse her neglect her, tolerate her. Best of all, you can keep still with her. It does not matter. He likes you. She understands you. You can weep with her, sin with her, laugh with her and pray with her. Through it all and underneath she sees, knows and loves you. A friend? What is a friend? Just one, I repeat, with whom you can be yourself…
Madeleine Phillips, South Africa

The mystery of friendship
Friendship is a gentle thing
It is a bond bless by God.
We must treasure that bond it is a special gift,
A warm and quit feeling
Rich in unspoken admiration.
Friendship is a gentle thing and life is good,
When you can say I have a friend.
Friends is special, love and respect them,
They are yours.
Charlene Damon, Atlantis Secondary School, Port Nolloth, West Coast in South Africa.

The way I feel about my friends!
Friends are very important for me, in fact for all of us. We can't live without them. We need them for a lot of reasons. If you are in a bad mood they are always there to cheer you up, when you're feeling sad and lonely there is a shoulder to cry on. You need to treat you're friends with respect, if you don't, you will hurt their feelings. Never say bad things about you're friend, it is the worst thing that you will do to break you're friendship. The most important thing is don't let boys come between you two. In a lot of girl friendships boys are the main reasons friends split up. Please listen girls: Don't let that happen because they are not worth it. Please take care of you're friends like they are treasure and love them very much. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Devona Forbes, Port Nollth, South Africa

FRIEND'S ARE FRIEND'S FOREVER
MY NAME IS PHILLIP KWEKWE BUT MY FRIEND'S CALLED ME FLIPMODE. I AM FROM PORT NOLLOTH AND I WOULD LIKE TO TELL ANYONE WHO READ THIS, IT'S NICE TO MAKE NEW FRIEND'S BUT KEEP YOUR OLD FRIEND'S. A FRIEND IS SAMEONE THAT CARE ABOUT YOU AND UNDERSTAND YOU.WHEN WE MAKE NEW FRIEND'S WE FORGET ABOUT THAT PERSON WE ONE'S CALLED OUR FRIEND.
Phillip, (South Africa)

I ONE'S HAD TWO FRIEND'S DEEBO AND ANDRIES WE WERE FRIEND'S FOR 3YEAR'S. ONE DAY AFTER SCHOOL WE GOT INTO A BIG FIGHT OVER A GIRL. AT THE END SHE OUR FRIENDSHIP WAS NOT WHAT IT WAS BEFORE BUT AT LIST WE WERE STIL TALKING TO EACHATHER. SO WE GOT BACK TOGETHER AND SOLF OUR PROBLEM AND THE GIRL WAS A THING OF THE PAST.FROM THAT DAY NO GIRL DID EVER CAME BETWEEN US AND OUR FRIENDSHIP IS NO STRONGER THEN EVER.B-LINE, DRAAD, MANDOZA AND THE FLIPMODE SQAUD IS THE BEST OF THE BEST.TO THE ONE WHO READ THIS LOVE PEAC AND FLIPMODE GREES FOR EVER TIL NEXT TIME I AM OUT.

WHAT WILL THE WORLD BE WITH NO FRIENDS ?
Friends are the most important things in a teenage life. Sometimes they do things that you wouldn't like and just have to go with the flow or otherwise you would be a chicken. That is not what you call real friends. Friends trust and support each other when you in a bad situation. If you want a good friendship, make it work and last forever.
Deoneen Augustus from South-Africa, Northen Cape ,Port Nolloth

Friendship is the way to a beter life.Your friend is there to talk to.But there are goodtimes and badtimes like the times that you shend together on holidays. But there is up and downs in life.And there were times that you thinks
Yolandi Adams. I live in Port Nolloth (South Africa).

My friendship was a wonderful friendship.
Me and my friend was very close friends,
Use to tell our secretes to one another.

One day we were "chilling" at the beach,
We got in a fight with our enemys, we were
Arguing with each other.

We started to fight and we were not friends
Any more. He told the hole school about my secrets.

That is not the way to lose a friend.
Do you think we should work it out?
Eljean Isaacs, Port Nolloth, South Africa.

Friendship is all about trust and care
For each other to be there
Without a friend you will be lonely and horrible
Sometimes it is so adorable
Just the way two friends support each other
Always remember you can rely on your mother
There must be no secrets between you
Otherwise your friendship is not true
And you have no clue what friendship is all about
Charoline, South Africa.

The language of Friendship
In friendship there's a language Only with the heart Maybe that's to take Good and faithful friends
For granted Of gratitude Are stolen By one hand By one heart To another
Justine, Port Nolloth, South -Africa.

Friendship is all about truth and love. It is nice to have friends. A friend is a special thing all time. In the world, at school and at home You can make friends all over the world. They can help you when you're in trouble. A friend in need is a friend in deed.
They can help you when you will deal your secrets but you must be careful because he/she can be your biggest enemy at time when you are fight or argue. At last you must be careful how you choose your friends.
Dean van Den Heever, Atlantis Secodary School, Port Nolloth,South Africa

“The only war in which I could like to take part”, once the French well knewn writer Antuan D’Cent Exupery wrote in his letter to his girl friends,”is the war for friendship and love”. Living in the period of the great wars of the 20th Century D’Cent Exupery realized the real price of pace and friendship. The generation of the 21st century reaizes it as well. Every day many people are killed in the war in Chechnia, in Kosovo, in Afganistan and other places. What leads some people to attack and kill others? I don’t know what is it, but I am sure that it is not love or Kindness. The sence of friendship can make those people who are fighting in the world stop for a moment and think. Think over the things which are tought in every school and college of the world, think about love and friendship, think about peace on the planet and in each family, realize that we all share one Planet. It is our common home. We are the members of one big family. If the ship,(the Planet) sinks, we all will find ourselves sinckng too.At present there exist for and against ideas concerning the concept of globalization. On the one hand globalization will contribute the relationship and friendship on the Planet, on the other hand many traditions and national values can be lost. Concequantly, humanity needs time for working out of new concepts. Furthermore, humenity has run out of time. Cooperation must replace confrontation if we are to provide future generations with a fighting chance of survival.
Truzyan Lusine, Armenia

Hello! My name is Nigar. I am 15 years old a girl from Azerbaijan. I want to say my
opinions about knowledge.
I think that knowledge is important for all us. We learn many things in the school. I think that all students love school like me. I study in Baku- the capital of Azerbaijan.
School introduces you to different sort of people.
School helps us make our own decisions.
School helps us to understand ourselves.
School makes us polite and well behaved.
School teaches us moral values.
School gives us education. Education is knowledge. Knowledge is light. It is impossible to live without light. School is wealth.
An educated person is one who knows many things. He is also finding out more about the world around him.
There are different rules in different schools. Uniform is compulsory at our school, we must be always ready for our lessons and many others. It is very interesting for me to know about different sch ool of other countries.
Speaking in public is sometimes not very easy. But we can exercise speech skills at school. School is important for all us in our life. That is why we must study and learn.
“AS KNOWLEDGE INCREASES, WONDER DEEPENS”.
Nigar Gulmalieva, Azerbaijan, Baku.

Friends-the thing we can't live without
Friendship…Isn’t this the most precious thing in the world? You can live without cars, phones, computers, but can you live without friends? Yes? I think that the answer here is “No”. Why? Because your friends are those who will be near you no matter if you are at the happiest moment of your life or at the worst. Your friends, I mean real friends, will be always near you and will help you whenever you need them.
As I said, the friendship is the most precious thing in the whole world, but all of us are human beings, so it’s normal for us to make mistakes. What kind of mistakes? To break a friendship, for example.
It’s awful to lose a really good friend, isn’t it? I, myself, had been in this situation, of loosing a friend, and believe me, it was really hard. We were very good friends, when we were little. We played together, went to school together, even sometimes wrote our homework together and there were times when this brought us lots of problems. As the years went by, we grew up and changed much. We had many arguments about so silly things! One day we had a really bad fight. I don’t remember why it was about. She was so mad at me, so was I. Now I realize that it was my mistake, but at that time, I didn’t realize it at all. The day we had that fight was the most awful day in my entire life. Fortunately, the things went better and now we are friends again. It wasn’t easy, but we made it and I think that both of us don’t sorry about that. There are times when I think that it was good the quarrel happened, because it taught me that there’s nothing better than a true friend. So, be careful, real friends are the most precious treasure in the world!
Jenny

Friendship is very important between people... and we all need it to survive ... to have a beautiful life and fool of harmony...
Gligan Mary, Romania

I beleive friendship is a very important value that can be the solution to many of the problems of this world, if we live together in this planet why don't we live happyly in harmony with the people making them our friends? Life is so short!!!!
Wendy Penélope Funes Betancourt, El Salvador

I think that Friendship is one of the most important things that must exist between all the people in the world. It s something essential for the persons because all of us have friends and to have friends is beautiful because if we hadn t friends we d be alone. Also almost all of us have our own best friend and we trust each other and talk about important and personal things.The word FRIENDSHIP is sinonym of FRIENDS, SOLUTIONS, TRUST, HELP &ADVICES. Remember, if you have friendship you ll always have someone who helps you in your problems, and your life will be m uch easier than you expected.
Felipe Montiel, englishtime@arnet.com.ar, Argentina

World Peace and Cooperation is the only solution to our problems
Sridevi, India, cookie_911@hotmail.com