Edurne: Grades again.

Luci: How many have you failed?

Ivan: None, of course, but have you heard about Yong Ha, that Korean girl?. She's failed all of them! Except gym, the easy one.

Edurne: Ah, but she's so cool! She said something to the maths teacher last week that had us all really laughing. He couldn't do anything!

Ivan: So that's funny, is it? To make the whole class laugh and be rude to a teacher? I don't get the joke.

Edurne: Don't be so serious.

Ivan: Don't be so serious? Do you think my parents brought me here so I could waste my time in school being rude to teachers? How come, that's cool?

Edurne: Well, it's what everyone else does....

Luci: Including Yong Ha. It seems... I don't understand it -her parents get really mad at her if she doesn't do well.

Edurne: I think she just wants to fit in.

Ivan: How do you mean?

Edurne: Well, I know when she first came here she was bullied a lot, people called her names, made fun of the way she talked. When she did well in class that made some people bully her even more. I reckon she stopped working so hard because she wanted to be liked by the others. She wanted to be like the rest of the class.

Ivan: That's really sensible isn't it. When she doesn't get any qualifications and she goes for a job, she can say at the interview that she was popular. I bet that will help!

Luci: It's funny though. She is going against what her parents want by not working hard in school, and, in a way, I'm going against my parents, my community, because I do work hard. Odd isn't it?

Ivan: Why don't we, or some of us, or one of us, talk to her. Perhaps she could even join our gang...