These are the notes from a survey titled PEOPLE AND THINGS WE APPRECIATE. The interviewees accepted to write about the positive things in their life with great enthusiasm. We presume teenagers in other towns or countries will find lots of things in common.

Here are some of our interviewees:

Boza Nestorovic | Andrijana Acimovic | Jelena Ratkovic
Marija Jankovic | Tijana Bozic | Mario Bilav

Bozidar Nestorovic, a 16-year old boy:

Branko, my brother. He is 10 and he is sometimes very interesting and sometimes very boring, which usually depends on my mood, but, after all, he is my brother and I have to teach him everything.

Aca, my school-mate. I spend a lot of time with him at school, where we talk, laugh, and make jokes. We go home together, too.

Dragan is my very good friend from my neighbourhood. I usually wait for bus with him, and then we talk about some interesting things. On Friday evenings we go to our favourite café, where we have good fun.

My room. It is the place where I live (listen to music, read, sleep) and study. I spend almost all of the time at home in my room. I take care about it myself, so it is sometimes very messy; anyway, it looks very attractive because of some other things (like its atmosphere). Oh, I like my room very much.

Andrijana Acimovic, a 15-year-old girl:

Jelena. She is my best friend. We go to the same class and sit together. I can talk to her about everything. When I have a problem, she helps me. She gives me her support and understanding. I have known her for many years and she has never failed me. Jelena is really the best.

My room. I study, sleep and rest there. That is the place where I can relax and feel good. I can decorate it to my taste. In that place, nobody disturbs me. I think that is the room which everybody would like.

Cassette recorder. I like to listen to music when I am tired. It hels me to relax. The cassesstte recorder takes a significant place in my life.

Jelena Ratkovic, a 15-year-old girl:

Andrijana, my best friend. I have known her since our first class. I knew already then that she would be my best friend. I can tell her everything and she never gets angry at me. She always helps me when I need it. She and me are very similar. We like the same music, food and people. I love her like a sister. She's really the best.

Telephone. I like to telephone very much, esepcially when I phone to my friends. Sometimes I talk too much so that my parents can't call anyone, and they get very angry then.

My room. I'm usually in my room when I have free time. I like to lie down on my bed and listen to music. Then I am completely relaxed.

Marija Jankovic, a 16-year old girl

My parents. They are always ready to help me and protect me.

My brother. I can talk with him about everything, and we often help each other.

Zlata, my best friend. I share everything with her, from problems to homework.

My home. I live there with my parents, grandmother and my brother.

Lingva, Foreign Language School. I can learn many useful things there.

Economic School. One of the most important places in my life, I can learn many useful things too. Those are ecoonomic things that can help me to become someone in life.

Tijana Bozic, a 15-year old girl:

My brother, Milos, who can talk with me about everything, My mother, Mira, who takes care of me and my brother, My best friend, Ana, whom I adore and who helps me with everything,

LINGVA School, where I can learn English, SESTRE ILIC Primary School, where I can meet new friends,

My dictionary, where I can find some new words that I can't understand, The pen I am using for writing, the purple one.

Mario Bilav, a 15-year-old boy

Zoran, my coach, because he is training me, he loves me like a son, and we are good friends.

My parents. I like them very much and they like me, too. My mother helps me with my homework, and my father with the sports.

Bane, my best school-mate. We talk a lot on the phone, usually about sports, school, films. I don't like him in one thing - sleeping. At school we often have fights because we don't know what else to do when the teacher is not in the classroom yet.

Mountains, where I go hiking and breathe in oxygen.

Sea, where I can swim, play with a ball in water and windsurf.

TV. I like it because I can see many things on it.

Radio, because I like music, and if I want music, I just press a button on the radio and listen to it.

School subjects, because I have to learn. If I want to study at university, I must have a lot of knowledge. Even though I don't like to study, and I think nobody likes to study every day, but for sure we must, whether we like it or not.