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• TEENAGE KICKS • GRASSING • EQUALITY • ZOODIAC • STIs •

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GET AWAY FROM IT ALL Whether you’re inspired by Leone’s Chronicle (see page 12) or just can’t wait to get away from school and your parents, if you’re thinking about taking a year out the GapYear show is the place to start. It features organisations like GAP Activity Projects, WorldWide Volunteering, VSO, Raleigh International and companies like STA Travel, Cotswold Outdoors, FindaGap and Deloitte. Covering everything from where to go to what you’ll need to take with you, the GapYear Show will help you get there and, more importantly, how to pay for it all. For more information call 01453 843271 or visit www.gapyearshow.co.uk The GapYear Show Wembley Exhibition Centre, 28 and 29 June

The Polaroid Splash camera is completely waterproof up to 20 metres so you can take it on holiday and won’t mind at all when your little brother or sister drops it in the swimming pool. We sent tall designer and international snorkelling enthusiast Jon to Thailand, for a swim: “It was a snap to use, from changing the film to taking photos. Above water it’s fine. Underwater, things have to be pretty close otherwise the photo comes out a bit murky. If you were scuba diving and could get close to coral it would be easy. When you’re snorkelling it’s a bit more difficult because when you dive down you get water in your breathing tube. You can hold your breath but, well, I couldn’t be bothered.” The Polaroid Splash II RRP: £19.99

REVISION Last minute jitters over exams? Follow these 10 tips from the Mental Health Foundation scattered like a madman through the magazine. www.mentalhealth.org

Finger Tip 1: Make a revision plan. No, really.

NO PAIN NO GAIN

DOWN THE TUBES

It’s hotting up outside and time to start thinking about skirts, sandals and leg hair. Nair Easy Wax Roll On claims any woman can wax her legs without having to wait until her hair grows so long she could be mistaken for the missing link between monkeys and humans.

Transport for London have launched ‘Ask Tube’, a new tool on their website which provides ‘quick and reliable’ information about the tube 24/7. At least we know they can make something quick and reliable.

As with all home beauty products you have to read some lengthy instructions; it’s less messy than any other home waxing kit I’ve used (apart from strip wax which is not messy at all); and no heating is needed, which is good, but great effort is needed to squeeze the wax out of the container. In spite of the claims on the packet, the Roll On was totally useless in removing short hair, although it did strip away the fake tan on my leg completely. It was much more effective on Gary’s hairy leg. 1/10 for removal of short (2mm) women’s leg hair. 10/10 for removal of fake tan. 10/10 for removal of men’s long leg hair. XK

Also, as of September this year, under-16s will be able to travel on London buses for free. The London Transport Users Committee said: “Our members feel that extending free travel on buses will discourage children to walk, could cause overcrowding on buses, and could lead to more anti-social behaviour, which discourages other passengers from travelling.” Is it not bad enough that we get blamed for a hundred and one things already? Now they’re blaming teenagers for something that hasn’t happened yet. They are playing the old stereotype card for all teenagers to be brainless Neanderthals. I guess if one egg’s bad, you’ll return the whole box… CW

Nair Easy Wax Roll On RRP: £7.99

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“The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.” George W. Bush, 43rd President of the USA

ONE-HANDED FUN The Nintendo DS is a sexy piece of kit that you won’t get called a pervert for touching. Result! The DS is an impressive console by any right, let alone as a handheld. With 87,000 sales in its opening weekend, the DS is proving popular and with reason. The DS completely re-writes the book on gameplay, throwing in two screens, one of which is touchsensitive, and a built-in microphone for voice recognition, as well as the usual D-pad, face and shoulder buttons. DS is the most fun handheld console since the original Gameboy back in 1989. Nintendo’s staying at the top of the handheld hierarchy. Quite simply, you need this console in your life. CW Nintendo DS System £99.99

A GUIDE TO THE GUIDE Arthur Dent wakes up one morning and finds his house about to be demolished to make way for a motorway bypass. Things couldn’t get any worse. But then Arthur discovers his planet is going to be demolished for a hyperspace bypass and he is about to be flung into a space odyssey he could never have imagined. And all he wanted was a cup of tea.

ODE TO A SMALL PIECE OF FILM EXHIBITION I FOUND IN MY ARMPIT ONE MIDSUMMER MORNING An exhibition of the film, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is opening at the Science Museum. The exhibition boasts sets from the film, real props, costumes and characters and the chance to go behind the scenes and see how the film was made. Something to interest hardcore fans of the film, as well as movie buffs. The Science Museum hopes that the exhibition will inspire people to think about science in a ‘more creative way’, and will be running a series of events for visitors. The last sentence either sold you or deterred you but it should be an entertaining day out. CW

The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy is the first of five books (and if you don’t want to read, then you can listen to them on CD, and watch the first on film). The books follow Arthur’s journey through the whole universe: perfectly normal beasts, two headed aliens obsessed with sex, a man stuck in his dressing gown, stroppy machines, a two billion-year-old race of killer white robots and several peculiar but entirely unconnected coincidences. Find out the meaning of life, the universe and everything. JL The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Books, CDs, television series, records, cassettes, stage plays, film...

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Science Museum 28 May to 27 November 2005

Finger Tip 2: Take some time out. It’ll help you con… conce… concentrate.

A grammatical guide... THE APOSTROPHE Use an apostrophe to: 1. Show that letters are missing from a word: she’ll (she will), don’t (do not), you’re (you are) 2. show possession: Gary’s hairy leg Never use an apostrophe to show a plural: new handbag’s (should be new handbags), hoody’s (should be hoodies), 1980’s (should be 1980s) Don’t confuse it’s and its: It’s is short for it is: it’s too late Its shows possession: in its opening weekend If more than one person owns something, only use one apostrophe: Beyonce’s and J.Lo.’s style should be Beyonce and J.Lo.’s style.

AND THE REST... BADGETRADING If badge collecting does go all Pokémon this summer, here’s an easier and altogether more friendly way to get hold of weird new designs than jacking little kids in the playground. www.badgetrading.com

COLLAGE ARTS Multimedia courses opening doors into the music industry. Free to the unemployed. Tasters running from 3 May.

RMX 05 COMPETITION National music making competition for under-18s. www.dbass.org

www.collage-arts.org 020 8365 7500

CRUSAID’S WALK FOR LIFE A 10 km walk raising money for people with HIV/AIDs on Sunday 19 June. www.walkforlife.co.uk 0870 787 5348

TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2005 A competition for photographers of all ages. Entries close 9 September. www.tpoty.com

BY JOEY LESKIN What does the word ‘teenager’ mean to you? When children hear the word ‘teenager’ they think about freedom, being able to go to bed later, watch 15-rated movies or have a mobile phone. This is the naïve view of being a teenager.

on most of our minds. But he obviously wasn’t dwelling on French revision or a girl who rejected him the week before. He wasn’t beating up old ladies on the street. He was using his teenage years to the fullest, putting his youth to an advantage.

When pensioners hear the word ‘teenager’, they talk about the ‘youth of today’. They reflect on their own teenage days before the advent of technology. But mostly they connect the modern teenager primarily to vandalism and violence, punks with skateboards and long dirty hair or skinheads with weapons and ‘bling’. This is the stereotypical view of being a teenager.

There are negative things about being a teenager but because they are in the spotlight, the positive things are forgotten. If you’re a teenager, you don’t have to worry about your gas bill or a mortgage. If you’re under 16, things like travel are cheaper. Education is free and if you want it enough you can get enough for a decent job without paying anything.

When a teenager hears the word ‘teenager’, they think about themselves. Many focus on the worst aspects of their

Then you have the fun things. As an adult, every relationship is serious. At our age we can take it all a bit more light-

‘‘As a teenager you don’t know what being an adult is like and by the time you find out it’s too late to go back’’ heartedly. Sure, you can have a serious seven years in limbo: school and work; parental and domestic troubles; peer pressure and friends; the opposite sex. I was in Covent Garden with a group of friends killing time. In the hubbub of activity that is London at half past five in the evening, hundreds of people walked in hundreds of directions. Street performers earned their living with their daily range of tricks. A teenage boy played a guitar like a piano, creating a sound that matched the atmosphere and earned him quite a wage. A teenage boy. How many five year olds would imagine their teenage years busking in Covent Garden? Beating professional musicians to win a license to perform in the centre of the busking world wouldn’t really be

relationship, but you can also have a bit of fun without long-term consequences or worrying that you’ll never find anyone to settle down with. Also, you can’t really go and hang out in large groups down in Islington or wherever when you’re in your mid-fifties. Teenagers have the social freedom to meet up and socialise without being judged but you don’t see groups of middle-aged adults hanging out. And if you do see a group of 10 or so fifty year olds chilling out in Wood Green, stop taking whatever drug you’re on. If in your late teens you get to university, you apparently have it pretty sweet. A national survey was conducted of eight or nine adults who I was talking to once, and they all said their university days

Finger Tip 3: Revise with friends. There ARE ways to make revision fun.

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were the best of their lives. Conclusive evidence if there ever was any. The positive part of being a teenager may not be obvious when you’ve just been dumped or failed an exam. But there are things that make being a teenager much easier than being an adult. The problem is that as a teenager you don’t know what being an adult is like and by the time you find out it’s too

late to go back. So enjoy your teenage years because they aren’t actually too bad. Alternatively, wait until you find out what being an adult is like, travel back in time and then explain to your teenage self that it’s vitally important to enjoy it because even if they invent time machines you’ll never be a teenager again.

Send your poems with your name, address and age to Exposure, The Bigger Shoe Box, Muswell Hill Centre, Hillfield Park, N10 3QJ or email editor@exposure.org.uk or fax 0208 883 2906 One Love One Heart In the night skies there are thousands of stars. In the day there is but one. When the dying sun is at death’s door That one star lives on. The mind has thousands of loves And the heart but one. The light has new life then dies When that one love is over and done. Luizi Mabu, 18, Edmonton

London Bridge By Night Incandescent lighting striking up the walls, The booming in the distance of a vessel as she calls. Tourists are scurrying, seeking out the bars, Cabbies hunting fares in different types of cars. The tide is ever swirling like a long forgotten age. Mists hover over like history’s old front page. Stars twinkle up above like jewels on a ceiling And stillness of the night rediscovers some lost meaning. Masts hang like beacons of misbegotten souls, Away across the water businessmen like trolls. Sounds of London traffic ever echo through the night. Shades of black and grey and the ever losing fight. It’s 3 am now and the city’s cast its cover. People snore in bed; husband, wife or lover. The moon reflects the ripples. One cries in horror. If she gets some sleep tonight, she’ll be okay tomorrow. High above an aircraft drones its eerie kind of tune. A cleaner sweeps the restaurant floor. Home-time very soon. The insomniac looks down for one final glance: The Thames keeps bubbling its grand finale dance. Daytime will soon be creeping like a long forgotten friend, The bustloing agenda of the city slicker trend. Farewell and buonna notte to our voyeur’s little peep; Let’s return to velvet vistas and gentle soothing sleep. Peter Curtis, Tottenham

Finger Tip 4: Talk to someone if you’re feeling low. Drag them down with you!

First Period The morning bell rings and school begins. Black girl walks down the school corridor. Boys stop and stare. Man, that girl’s bum’s big, go on, touch it for a dare. Nah man, I hear she’ll fight you. No she won’t, I hear she likes you. Why me? Coz your nearly the same height as her, plus your in the same class as her. Look, are you gonna do it or not man, she’s soon gonna walk pass man. Why don’t you just shut up man! Look, If you don’t do it your out the gang. Try know if she boxes me I’m gonna box her back Yeah, yeah, whatever, you can’t handle that. Alright, stand back. Here goes nothing, man’s a prol (Boy grabs black girls bum and wha’ do you know) Two blows to the face, slammed to the wall and a headlockl The Science teacher stares in shockl Calm down Charlene. Stop it! Mark get away. Charlene come back here! Mark, what did you do, what did you say. Charlene stay here, Mark, you wait outside. That’s not like you young miss, am I seeing another side? I just started my period for the first time ever, I’ve got a nappy up my batty and Mark thinks he’s clever. He grabbed my bum to touch my pad, Now he’s gonna tell the others and make me look badl Just give me five minutes with him Miss, that’s all I need. To do what Charlene? To make him know what it feels like to bleed! Kelly-Dee

My Rose I waited for you for so long. My wait still carries on. My heart crumbled when you said bye. No hesitation, You just left me to cry. For days, months, I weeped over you. I was the rose you picked and blew, Left my petals on the ground, Trod on my stem. Not even a sound. You took everything that could be taken from me. Picked me off Bit by bit, Slowly. So all I’m left to say is I was the rose that tried to spring And you were the thorn that grew within. Funda Cetinkaya, 16, Enfield

Travel Diary

THAILAND How many people are lucky enough to live like this? Since Japan, my travels took me to the Malaysian peninsular where, for three or four weeks, I learned about the different lives human beings are living every single day across the world. Finding lifetime after lifetime, I still wake up every morning excited to take hold of the day and find something new. I have just walked across the Malaysian/Thailand border. Laden with backpack (which I'm sure is reaching the ten tonne mark!) and in the searing midday sun, I managed to complete the walk across the bridge without so much as a nod in the direction of immigration, customs and passport control! On entering Thailand, all officials were puzzled as I seemed to have crossed countries without so much as a stamp in my passport or one piece of checked luggage!! There were smiles all around (minus my poor spine) as I was ordered to cross BACK over the bridge and get my passport stamped!!! Where Japan was beautifully different

BY LEONE CHRISTOU at every corner - from the bright lights of Tokyo to the green and blue waterfalls of Kyushu - continental Asia is a different ball game. Here in the international-geared Singapore, the friendly Malaysia and the beautiful Thailand - a traveller can really begin to find out who they are and about their relationship to the world. The best thing, so far, about travelling is exactly that word: 'travelling'. If I came out here to find myself or some greater meaning to my, now distant, life in London then I find it on the hours-long bus journeys or lying on my back watching airport terminal ceilings of stable blues and greys. What London lacks, and what this travelling stuff gives back in abundance, is beautiful periods of stillness. London is too hectic for the quiet, soul searching you can achieve on an eight hour bus ride to the Malaysian rainforest or the five hour flight to the Maldives with a two hour stopover in another blue/grey airport terminal. A friend emailed the other day and said 'Yeah, but who wants to do soulsearching when there's so much fun to

Finger Tip 5: Eat away your problems with three meals a day.

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Dragon (top), Earth (bottom) by Brenda Anang-Tagoe

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Red Shoes Set You Free, by Frida Alvinzi

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WOMEN KNOW BY GEORGIA WHEELER, JADE WILLIAMSON, LIZ MILLAR AND SHELLEY GRAY Picture in your mind a lawyer. A doctor. A taxi driver. An entrepreneur. I bet all of those images were male. Women may have come a long way since your nan spent her youth waiting for a man to save her from a life on the shelf, but don’t rest on your laurels just yet, girls – we still have a long way to go.

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I’d like to see a female President of the United States. Leila, 18, Tottenham

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Nowadays women have all kinds of roles, so maybe that’s made men a bit confused about their role. My brother’s wife is a solicitor and he’s responsible for the childcare.

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Sue Fairbairne, art teacher, Hornsey School for Girls

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My parents let my brother stay out really late while me and my sister can’t go out that much. They give him more freedom. Amani, 18, Hornsey

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Women get less pay than men and people think that women can’t do a lot of things that a man can do. But personally I liked it when women were treated as women.

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Doreen, 61, Tottenham

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Women don’t encourage each other. We put each other down. Jade, 18, Tottenham

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Finger Tip 6: Revision is nuts - eat some for an energy boost.

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When I was young, women were expected to take a back seat, so please appreciate what you have and take each opportunity that comes your way. Irene Sinclair, 96, Special guest at Haringey’s International Women’s Day. Picked to model for Dove’s ‘Real Women’ campaign and now travels all over Europe and went to America last year – at 96 years old!

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However small a woman’s achievement may seem, it does make a difference.

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Thamali Jayasinghe, 18, Haringey’s Unsung Women award-winner. Used her gap year to help out at her old school – after writing a novel!

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It can be tough to do what you want to do but if you keep going your hard work will always pay off in the end.

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Chevreen Wisdom, 20, Haringey’s Unsung Women award-winner. Chevreen set up Lady Pineapple Entertainments and arranges showcases for upcoming singers, dancers, rappers and MCs.

THE BAD OLD DAYS… In ancient Greece women counted their age from the date on which they were married, rather than from their birth. Until 1884 in England a wife was officially listed as one of her husband’s possessions. In the Chinese written language, the symbol for ‘trouble’ represents two women under one roof. The first female flight attendants in 1930 were required to weigh no more than 115lb and be unmarried. BUT THERE’S STILL A LONG WAY TO GO… Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours and earn only 10 per cent of the world’s income. Women own less than one per cent of the world’s property. Women hold only 12 per cent of parliamentary seats worldwide. Worldwide, a quarter of all women are raped during their lifetime. Two-thirds of the world’s illiterate adults are women. In 2000, a transsexual in Iran who had just had surgery to become a woman said she wanted to change back into a man after realising just how badly women are treated.

ZOODIAC

Rooster 1981.1993.2005

Rat 1972.1984.1996

You’ve been rowing with someone close to you lately. Don’t let your pride and cynicism get in the way of a close friendship. Get off your high horse (or grotesquely massive genetically modified chicken) or you might lose them forever.

Your brilliant ideas and inspiration have made you the flavour of the month. Enjoy the attention and use this opportunity to get out of those rusty old dustbins and reap the rewards of a big fresh plastic wheelie bin.

Dog 1970.1982.1994

Ox 1973.1985.1997

Summer’s almost here but you’re already feeling exhausted. Don’t try and take on more than you can handle. You can’t be there for all of your mates, all of the time. Spend some time looking after yourself for a change, and stay out of the sun!

You’re ready to move on and make a new start. But someone from your past won’t let go. You have unresolved business. go back and deal with it and get ready to plough a furrow straight into the future.

Pig 1971.1983.1995

Tiger 1974.1986.1998

You feel that people are asking too much of you and it’s getting a bit overwhelming. You can’t eat everything. Don’t be shy, tell them how you’re feeling and ask them to lessen your workload. They won’t bite and might just save your bacon!

You’ve had a big shock to deal with and now you have two choices: curl up into a ball and lick your own bottom, or accept it and try to see the positive side. Despite what you think, it will get easier.

Finger Tip 7: Exercise. Kick revision to the side and improve your mood.

Dragon 1976.1988.2000

Horse 1978.1990.2002

You’ve been feeling on top of the world recently. Your confidence is sky high and no one can knock you. As long as you keep honest and hard working, you’ll spread your wings and fly.

Now that you’ve met that someone special, you’re tempted to spend all your time with them. But be careful of galloping into something and neglecting the other people important to you. Take things slowly, and canter through it all.

Rabbit 1975.1987.1999

Goat 1979.1991.2003

A certain friend is giving you lots of advice at the moment. But what are their real intentions? Don’t let them blindly lead you into a deep dark hole. You already have the solution, just find the courage to act on it.

Don’t let recent events get you down. Things might not have turned out the way you hoped but learn the lessons from what’s happened and believe in yourself. After all, when there’s a mountain to climb, there’s no one better.

Snake 1977.1989.2001

Monkey 1980.1992.2004

Trying to be what your family and friends expect has got you tangled up in knots. Face it, you’re rattled. Dump the charade, be natural and let them see the real you. It’s time to be yourself.

The appearance of someone new in your life has knocked you out of your tree. But don’t push them away: the greatest things in life are always unexpected. Spend some time together and you’ll swing along just fine.

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IS WRONG

BY HASAN MIAH The number one rule is never grass. But you make up your own rules.

again. Except if you tell the police, they’re backing you up.

A survey of 13 and 14-year-olds by the Haringey Safer Schools Partnership at the ‘Your Voice, Your Choice’ conference in April found that almost three in five had been a victim or witness of crime. Most of these crimes were violence against the person or muggings. Less than half that amount said they would report, or have reported, a crime to the police.

“We’re trying to offer young people a full package not just report it to the police, end of story,” says Jim Clune, Sergeant In Charge Of The Safer Schools Partnership. “They need to feel the support not only of the police but also of the other organisations that are there like Childline, the support unit or counselling services. When a young person reports a crime we’re going to support them. If they suffer any further offences, we can charge those persons with those offences.”

People like me never report a crime. If you get jacked on the roads you don’t report it. Either you solve it your own way or you do nothing. If you do nothing, people know that you don’t fight back and they see you as a target. You won’t get your stuff back and they might come back and do it again. Solving it yourself means next time you see them on their ones, you bang them over. Then, if they see you by yourself,

According to the survey, 85 percent of young people trust the police to help and support them as a victim of crime. But you’ve got to report it first and more than a third of young people said they didn’t know how to report a crime. “It isn’t always a case of you having to go to a police station,” says Jim. “You can

“Every day, around 20 people are arrested and charged because someone rang Crimestoppers” they’ll try and get you back so you’ve got to carry a shank, a knife, for self-defence. And it carries on until someone gets stabbed. The biggest reason for not reporting a crime is the fear that if the boys who did it get arrested they’ll come for you. But you don’t eat people from your area, you go to the next area. You can’t jack people from your endz, it’s too hot. So they aren’t going to know who you are. And anyway, it’s just the same situation as if you’d done nothing or tried to murk them: you’re waiting to get beaten up

report a crime over the phone to the Telephone Reporting Unit in Tottenham, go to the Unreported Crime Project in Finsbury Park or report some minor crimes over the internet. There are also a numbers of occasions where the police can go to a home address.” Crimestoppers is a good number to call. Every day, around 20 people are arrested and charged because someone rang Crimestoppers and reported a crime. If it goes to court the police can protect your identity using a videolink. You feel better and more comfortable talking if you

Finger Tip 8: Put your worries to sleep. Better at home than in an examination hall.

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CRIMESTOPPERS 0800 555 111 www.crimestoppers-uk.org UNREPORTED CRIME PROJECT FINSBURY PARK Manor Gardens Centre, 9 Manor Gardens, London, N7 6LA (0207) 281 4354 Fax: (0207) 561 0893 E-mail: ucpfp@hotmail.com HARINGEY BOROUGH POLICE 24 hours a day - 7 days a week Hornsey 98 Tottenham Lane, N8 7EJ 020 8808 1212 Tottenham (HQ) 398 High Road, N17 9JA 020 8808 1212 Wood Green 347 High Road, N22 4HZ 020 8808 1212 ONLINE CRIME REPORTING www.online.police.uk IN AN EMERGENCY, ALWAYS RING 999

don’t see the boy’s face and you can stay anonymous. Or you could tell the police about a crime and ask for the person not to be prosecuted. “Recently I went to pupil referral unit and a music system had been slashed,” says Jim. “The victim, who was one of the teachers, didn’t want the student arrested but it was clear that a crime had taken place: criminal damage. I interviewed all the suspects at the school

and I was able to take all their details down. No one was arrested but we know who’s done it and now they’re on our system. It helps with our intelligence and we might be able to use what we know to make a decision in relation to any further offences.” Rules are for breaking. If you want to report a crime to the police, then that’s you. You do what you do. sponsored by: Haringey Safer Schools Project

There’s a teacher at school who I really, really fancy. I always put my hand up first and volunteer for everything. I think he fancies me too. He always asks me to demonstrate things in class and he always picks me first to answer questions. Could it really be true that he loves me too?

I know that if people got to know me, they might like me a lot, but I’m shy. I can’t stand it when I say hello and people blank me, or tell a joke and they pretend they haven’t heard or look the other way and smirk. I know the answer to this problem is always something like ‘just be yourself’. But I wish I was somebody else. Someone popular.

Just as lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other and let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the teacher longs for the moment when he can creep, not into the arms of his students, but to the staff room drinks cabinet. He is behaving just like... a teacher.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth. Look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity. Then tell me whether something that begins and ends that way is meant for enjoyment. Life must be understood backward but it must be lived forward. The anxiety you feel is the dizziness of freedom. Don’t forget to love yourself.

I’ve been playing a few girls lately and I was chatting to one of my bredren about it. It turns out one of the girls is his cousin and now he’s vex at me. I think he’s gonna tell her what I’ve been doing. She’s gonna be bare mad and will probably tell all the girls I’ve been playing. Now no girl’s ever going to trust me.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. And you are the perfect example. You wanted more girls than you could possible keep satisfied and you will be left with none. Let this be a warning. Patience is necessary. One cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

I’ve been seeing this boy. I’m only with him because he works at Superdrug and he can use his staff discount card to get me loads of cheap make-up. He thinks I don’t know about the other girls he’s seeing but we all met one day in the school toilets redoing our Revlon Fabulash Mascara (£8.49, Superdrug). Anyway, now my cousin’s telling me he’s no good and I should get rid of him but I’m still waiting for my Remington Wet 2 Straight ceramic hair straighteners. What should I do!

It seems essential in relationships, and all other tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations: one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it. You will regret both.

Answering your problems in this issue, witty conversationalist, hopeless depressive and the father of existentialism, Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, who died in 1855.

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For young people, if it went out of fashion an hour ago then consider it charity. I’m not a materialistic person but you’ve got to have a few pairs of Nikes, new handbags with shoes to match every couple of months and the new Ludacris album on your iPod. It’s still important to be in with the trends. But what are they? To find out just look at what young people are getting mugged for. People are actually getting stabbed for their screw eyes baseball caps. And how long have people been getting jacked for their Nike Tn trainers? Can being seen in the latest trends be so important that you have to kill someone or, even worse, sabotage their style? When it comes to trends and fashion London is really special. We’re always the last to know. Whether it’s clothes, films or music we have to wait, and then it

So what have the British created for themselves? Well Garage music - an MC spitting over a fast beat - is a start. Out of that came Grime or Esky beats, with faster spitting and even heavier beats. Grime has the potential to be really big and what helps is that adults don’t like it. This is all cool because it’s about time we had something of our own. The Grime artists like Kano, Lethal B and Dizzee Rascal gain a lot of respect but can get the crowds quite hype. You need to have a super amount of concentration to follow their lyrics. I don’t believe that all the fans understand but if you bop your head and scream every now and again you’ll be all right. Most of our cash, or more often our parents’ cash, goes on clothes. Girls might like to feel like they thought up their own style but they all want to look

“Can being seen in the latest trends be so important that you have to kill someone or, even worse, sabotage their style?” like the next Beyonce or J.Lo. But it’s not seems like America’s already been there and done that. We’re like the little brother who wants what the older brother’s got but has to wait until we’re older to get it. Timberlands seem to come to mind. I want to see ‘Buy One Get One Free!’ on Timbs instead of having to put them on your Christmas list. One trend that has totally lost me though are ‘scooby doos’. I just can’t see the excitement in pulling together two different coloured pieces of plastic. Back in the day we used to make friendship bracelets in the same way but you can’t even put these around your wrist. My little cousin still thinks that everyone copied her because she discovered scooby doos around a year ago in Germany.

just young girls, it’s the big women too. Either young people are trying to act older or the adults are trying to relive their youth. Then you’ve got the guys who are either dressed in hoodies or, and this is bad, pink. Thanks to Cam’ron pink has become way too acceptable on men. Anyway the problem is we’re all starting to look the same. I remember a few years ago when every other guy wanted cornrows, even David Beckham went there. How many still have them? Hardly any because girls just about find the time to cornrow their own hair never mind some boys tuff afro that he can’t be bothered to comb. Trends die out really quickly unless celebrities keep them alive. We are very influenced by the media and what we

Finger Tip 10: Forget about it (after the exam, not before).

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see or hear on TV. They help us create our style, which we might call self expression or personality but which is really just a fashion. If young people have any income at all it’s likely to be disposable. That’s the beauty of being young. Our parents might complain that we have too many clothes, see too many films, have too many CDs and on and on... but they

encourage us. You can’t buy your child a wardrobe and not expect them to fill it up! That’s like buying them a PlayStation, and not expecting them to want to collect the games to play on it. I’m not a materialist, maybe just a little addicted to buying things. But let’s face it, we all fall victim to fashion now and again.

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