Home Up Friends, Drugs, Alcohol and Cigarettes
Tuesday 18 May 1999-05-18
This morning we talked about friends, alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. We wrote a small report together.
The dutch students have a lot of friends in school, the Swedes do as well. Mobbing does not occure very often, that applies to both schools. In Holland there are diffrent sorts of youth groups, for example the "altos", they wear colorful clothes and act weard. There are also skaters in Holland, and they obviously skate.
Drugs...
In Holland you have to be sixteen to buy alcohol and cigarettes. And you have to be eighteen to buy softdrugs. Softdrugs are allowed in Holland, but they aren't allowed in Sweden. In Sweden you have to be eighteen to buy alcohol and cigarettes. But for strong alcohol you have to be twenty years old.
Hanneke Beemster
Mikael TilanderThe text is also available in German
FRIENDS
Both Swedish and Dutch parents trust their kids!! They don´t say anything or
grumble when you´re late! Sometimes we talk to our parents when we are in
trouble, but more often we speak to our friends. Sometimes when you lend
friends money, they don´t give it back, but you can always trust some friends
and lend them money. Friends are unpredictable. Some things they tell others,
and some things they don´t tell. Friends are often made when they go in the
same school or have the same interests. When we talk about friends we are very
much alike in Sweden and in Holland.
At school we talk about the same things in both countries. There is not much
bullying in RSG. Most young people have a best friend and they often have
friends outside school as well.
There is no group pressure at all and hardly any racism.
There is a good spirit in classes at school.Group 7
Drugs, alcohol and cigarettes
Drug problems are bigger in Holland than in Sweden. In Holland you can buy soft drugs in "coffee shops." Drug addicts are given drugs free because they don´t want them to commit burglaries to finance their drug abuse. One condition that must be fullfilled is that they sit in special rooms. That means that the state pays for their drugs.
Drugs are forbidden in schools.
We are not allowed to smoke at school in Sweden but when people smoke they stand outside the school area. Cigarettes and alcohol are very expensive in Sweden because of high taxes.
In Sweden low alcoholic beer costs about 35 Swedish crowns for six cans.
Some people allow their children to drink at parties and some don´t.
You have to be 18 to smoke cigarettes in Sweden.
In Holland it is legal to buy alcohol and cigarettes at the age of 16.
In Sweden you are allowed to buy beer when you are 18 but you have to be 20 to buy stronger stuff.
At the age of 18 you are allowed to buy drugs in Holland. In Sweden it is different, you are not allowed to buy drugs at all.
You can buy alcohol and cigarettes at the supermarket. In Sweden you can buy cigarettes in ordinary shops and alcohol in special shops for liquor called Systembolaget.In the Dutch beer there is 5-6 % alcoholGroup 4