All of your quotes Thursday, January 22, 2009

Nice to see almost everyone on time for class today. Make this a habit and everything will run smoothly for you. Today you got to comment on quotes that I had chosen from your own blog posts. You all had the chance to think, write and talk in groups. This is something we will do more of since I am positive it helps you to be more confident in English.
These are all of the quotes that I chose, but we did not have time to use them all in class. I have corrected some of the grammar and spelling:

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I can sort of understand Sarah’s mother for wanting to see her daughter as happy as she was when she was with Musa, but she should have known that it wasn't going to last, and the mother thought just as little as her twelve year old daughter when she made the decision to let Sarah go back to Turkey again.

I think that the whole thing was Sarah's parents' fault. They let her get married when she was too young to know what love is.

If I have to be honest I think that Musa only used her. She was so young and he was six years older than her. Perhaps many of you out there think that the age is just a number, and that it doesn’t matter if you are in love. But of course it matters at such a young age!

We have all been at the age of twelve and we all remember today what it was like. But we didn’t get married when we thought ourselves to be in love.

I do not blame her parents either. What happened to Sarah would have happened even if her mother had been against it.

Sarah’s mother should have come to her senses and just take charge over Sarah and say: "No, you’re not going anywhere and by the way you’re grounded."

For example she talks about what a struggle she has been through and that she doesn't even act like a teenager anymore, but then later in the article you find out that she goes out every Friday night and joins her friends. It's ok to go out a Friday night and spend time with friends, but every Friday night? I don't know but in my opinion that's a bit too much for a mother of 2 little children. She needs to spend that time looking for a job and not partying.

So I think that her parents are too easy on her. But who knows? Maybe they feel responsible for their daughter’s failed marriage? After all, they were the ones who had the power to prevent it from happening. Sarah was only a little girl and she did what she thought was right, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it was.

I don’t think Sarah could have travelled to Turkey by herself if her mum had not travelled with her. How could her mum do that to her own daughter? I don’t think any mum would do what her mum did, but maybe it was because for the first time she saw her daughter happy?

At that age you don't even know what love is, not in my age either.

I think Sarah’s parents maybe spoilt her too much and were afraid to contradict her. They were perhaps afraid that she would hate them and tell them that they had ruined her life, but that’s what young people say when they are mad, later they will get over it.

Love doesn’t know about religion, culture, how old you are, where you come from or what you look like. It is just love.

Sarah was a girl who believed in love and that love could stay for the rest of her life.

It’s good that she still accepts Musa and talks to him for the sake of the child, just so the child knows that they're not angry at each other and that they can talk to each other. And she lets her child know and learn about his other culture, and about how his father lives.

I think that Sarah got tired of Musa’s country and his religion and because of that they got divorced.

But when you’re in love you don’t know what you’re doing.