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Bullies couldn’t stop me becoming a star When Kaci's friends became bullies, she was determined they wouldn't stop her dreams of being a singer… I could bounce back. Instead, they tried to turn the situation around. They said I was being snobbish by not sitting with them. I couldn’t believe it and felt really stressed out. 40 Over the months that followed, the teasing got worse. When the class got into groups for PE, I was always left out and made to feel like an outcast. My grades started to slip because I was so unhappy – I just couldn’t concentrate 45 and I stopped putting my hand up in class to save the comments and teasing. Each night I’d cry into my pillow, hoping that the bullying would stop. In spite of the bullying, my singing career was 50 starting to take off. But that just upset the bullies even more, and gave them more reason to pick on me. After about six months of daily bullying, I couldn’t take it anymore. When I was eight years old, we moved to another part of Florida. I was excited about 55 persuaded me to let her speak to my teacher. moving, but scared about making new friends. It took a while, but slowly I did make friends 5 with a group of girls and it was a huge relief. At the same time I was working on my musical career, and I began singing and dancing in TV 60 people.” Everyone in the class knew she was commercials. By the time I was 10, I was travelling around America and felt like I was 10 really getting somewhere. Unfortunately, not everyone was pleased for me and my friends soon started to sneer and were envious of my 65 much, Mum got a private teacher to teach me success. One lunchtime I asked the girls to save me a 15 seat while I got my food. But, when I got to the table, they’d squashed together so tightly that I couldn’t sit down. I laughed it off, 70 because I know how far I’ve moved on. Still thinking they were only messing about, but they did the same thing the next day, and the 20 rest of the week. I felt so confused. A couple of the girls said they were only playing, but then, on Monday, they did the same thing again. They thought it was funny watching me find a seat alone, but it really hurt. 25 There were three ring-leaders who started tormenting me. The others, like sheep, just went along with them. I tried speaking to them, but although they’d listen to me and agree that they were in the wrong, when it 30 came down to 7 they wouldn’t stand up for me. I felt so betrayed. Although I was hurt, I was determined not to let them beat me. I began sitting with some of the older students, including two of the cutest 35 boys in school, hoping to show the girls that

Maths genius won’t go back The teenage maths whiz kid, Sufiah Yusof, who ran away from St Hilda’s College (part of Oxford University) this 30 have coped with the demands of her summer, is refusing to go back until she 5 turns 18. The 15-year-old student, who took up her place at Oxford at 13, has told her tutor that she will only go back to St 35 Hilda’s when she has reached the formal 10 age for it. It is believed that she has also turned her back on her family life, which she bitterly described as a “living hell”, and 40 plans to remain with her host family on 15 the south coast. She was placed with them by social services in Bournemouth, where she fled in June after finishing the third year of a four-year masters course 45 she wrote. “I’ve finally had enough of in maths. Police tracked down the 20 teenage genius to the popular seaside resort through e-mail messages she was sending from an internet cafe. Last week it emerged that Sufiah had 50 party” was involved in his daughter’s written to St Hilda’s to accept a place in 25 a few years’ time. “She’s taking a bit of time out and she’ll come back when she’s 18,” said Elizabeth Llewellyn-

Tongue tied T HE B EATLES ' BIOGRAPHER RAY CONNOLLY DESCRIBES HOW STAMMERING HAS AFFECTED HIS LIFE … FOR as long as I can remember I’ve stammered. The painful memories of a boyhood of tongue-tied frustration never fade. Well, perhaps I was luckier than most. My 5 memories of being picked on by other boys are few, and there would usually be loyal classmates to take my side if it did happen. But there was no one to support you when a teacher made a joke at your expense. ‘It’s 10 C-C-C Connolly, isn’t it,’ said Mr Rogan, our Latin teacher. And Mr Pilkington in chemistry said: ‘Connolly, if you knew the answer you wouldn’t be doing all that hesitating. Sit down. Mr Wainwright attempted to solve my problem appearance of relative fluency; changing the 15 by knocking my head from my shoulders, first 40 word I intend to say at the last second, adding to the left and then to the right. I remember, a dramatic hesitation in the middle of a too, being ignored, never invited to read out sentence. True, I may be able to speak with anything in class, and rarely being asked ease and confidence in professional and questions. It all happened more than 40 years social situations, but the person who does 20 ago. I like to think teachers are more 45 that isn’t the real me. understanding nowadays, though I bet not all I made a funny speech at my daughter of them are. Louise’s wedding last year, which was I’m sure that at the time I had all the attention probably the most emotional moment of my that any stammerer could have hoped for. A 1) 25 whole army attended on me: an elocutionist , 50 place, I’m as fluent as anyone. This fluent guy a speech therapist and even a psychiatrist. with the microphone is not, however, the The trouble was, while I was getting more and father Louise knows at home. That’s where more fluent with the speech therapist, I was I stammer most: when I'm 24 , when I’m still not able to ask for a bus ticket. I realise just being me. Of course, there’s always the 30 that what I was doing to overcome the 55 worry that my stammer will return in full one stammer was learning to act. And over the day. Perhaps, one day, even idiots such as years, I got very good at it. the employment agent in New York who, on I suppose, by most standards, I should hearing me stammer, said: ‘D’ you have a consider myself a success story as far as speech defect? Outside!' will take a deep 35 stammering is concerned. But even though 60 breath, and think twice before they speak. I might be able to fool others, I don’t fool And that is something every stammerer in the myself. Inside I know I’m a stammerer, full of world has been told to do – even though it tricks and techniques which give the never works. Daily Mail noot 1 spraaklera(a)r(es)

STORMING HOME 1 Yachtswoman Emma Richards was back on land yesterday, after facing 13 days of giant Atlantic waves and violent storms. The 27-year-old ocean racer had exceeded all expectations in the first leg 1) of one of sailing’s toughest competitions: 'the seven-month Around Alone global marathon'. Emma finished in fourth place only minutes behind the leaders. Britain’s latest sailing heroine entered the record books by becoming the first woman to complete a Transatlantic crossing on her own. 2 Aboard her 60ft boat 'Pindar', she said: "The race started with a couple of disasters, 31 I managed to pull through and caught up with the other boats. I am very pleased with my fourth place. I couldn’t be happier. I hadn’t realised for most of the crossing that the record was an option as well." 3 Now she will have a fortnight’s break in Torquay, before setting off on the second leg of the race, enduring Atlantic waves and winds once again as she 32 Cape Town. The fifth and last leg of the race will end next spring. 4 Emma is the youngest competitor, the only woman and the one Briton in the sailing marathon. She told of her despair when a line, controlling her mainsail, broke some days after the start. "It upset Sunday Telegraph noot 1 etappe