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SUPER SIS
Dear Super Sis,
My friend, Umama, has left the school and I’m really upset about it. I made a ‘bye bye’ card for her but I forgot to give it. In school we used to help the prefect to handle the class by entertaining them and now there is no one. Now I can’t even meet her because she went to Karachi and I am in Lahore. I never show it but inside my heart I really cry. Please do something.
Fatima
Sweetheart, don’t be so upset. I know it hurts if your best friend has to go far away, but that doesn’t mean you cannot remain in contact with her any more. Besides, there are so many ways in which you two can get in touch. There’s always the phone, and the Internet … and even the good old-fashioned snail mail.
Can you find out her new phone number? I’m sure someone in class must be having it; you could give her a call and tell her how much you miss her. She will certainly be pleasantly surprised. Make sure you get her postal and email addresses over the phone and then you will have so many other ways to get in touch.
You could make her a lovely e-card online and email it to her. Or you could write her a letter and post it to her; that will be even more fun. So you see? It’s really not the end of the world; you just have to give it some thought and the answers will come to you on their own. Good luck!
Dear Super Sis,
I want to join a summer camp in these vacations but the problem is that there is no summer camp in Islamabad. Please help me.
Camp Lover
Just because there aren’t any established summer camps in your city doesn’t mean you cannot have fun any more. What is a summer camp really? It’s just a bunch of people doing different activities together and having fun while at it. You can still do a number of your favourite activities without joining a camp, and learn and have fun at the same time.
First of all, you will need to gather some friends, either from school or from around the neighbourhood. Now make a list of the things that you guys would like to do together in your remaining holidays. It could be anything ranging from sports (cricket/ football/ table tennis, etc.) to indoor games (scrabble/ chess/ ludo/ cards/ dominoes/ carom, etc.) and other activities like painting, pottery, building blocks, card-making, etc.
Pick out the most popular items from your collective wish-list and assign a date and time for each activity. For example, you could decide among yourselves that you will play cricket on weekends, scrabble on Mondays, cards on Wednesdays and pottery-making on Fridays. Assign a suitable time to each activity and a common place where you and your friends can meet up — it could be your home or a friend’s home. And there you go: you’re off to your very own summer camp!
You could even give your camp a fun name and if it takes off this summer, you can have it next year as well. As your popularity grows, you can add new members to your very own summer camp and design a cool logo and badges for all members. That will certainly make heads turn! Have fun!
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