Believe in Yourself: Life Skills

**Believe in Yourself: Life Skills** is the fiftieth book of Candy Series and the first book of Season 2. It was published on August 2021.

## Blurb

The new school year has begun, and Joni, Emilia, and Mia are now in Year 6. Their class needs a new monitor, and everyone, including Mikael who has just returned from Prague, is encouraging Emilia to accept the role. Emilia, however, is hesitant because she is still troubled by what happened in the past. Can Emilia get over her self-doubt? Will she agree to become 6A's class monitor?

## Characters

* Joni
* Mrs. Liu
* Julian
* Mr. Zhang
* Mrs. Zhang
* Mia
* Mrs. Ouyang
* Emilia
* Pockey
* Harry
* Norman
* Noel
* Mrs. Lawson
* Sean
* Mr. Forest
* Mr. Gail Jiang
* Irwin (mentioned)
* Nathan, Newton and Nelson
* Sera
* Charles
* Anthony (mentioned)
* Richard (mentioned)
* Nora
* Alexandra
* Alan
* Kim Ji Won
* Miyuki
* Nancy
* Ned
* Mrs. Zhang (Norman's mother)
* Nina
* Mikael
* Corey
* Sofia (telephone conversation)
* Mr. Ouyang

## Chapters

### First Day of School

The members of Candy JEM change significantly. Joni wakes up early and cooks breakfast for her family members (Which Julian said tastes "so good"), Mia is less indecisive and is able to figure out what she wants to wear to school without potentially being late, and Emilia sets goals for the school year which now includes a new addition - improving her physical strength.

Sean is revealed to be a new addition of the teaching staff at Sacred Hearts Primary School and is in charge of class 1A. Besides that, Mr. Forest is now in charge of 4C.

### New Class Monitor

Although Sean is a bit unsure of what to do in the class, he slowly gets used to it. Sera and Alan, Charles and Alex's younger siblings, join grade 1, too. Besides that, Mr. Forest is now in charge of 4C. It is then also revealed that Charles and Ji-won have joined 6A, which needs a new class monitor, as Norman and Harry are now hygiene monitors. Emilia is selected by Ms. Miyuki as a candidate for the job.

### Emilia is Troubled

Norman's siblings come back from school, his father has a heart to heart with him regarding his new position at school. Candy JEM plans to meet Mikael at his new apartment as he returned from Prague; Emilia mulls over the fact that she actually did not accept Ms. Miyuki's offer as she thought she was not fit for it due to past experiences (referring to the events of G21)

### Basic Life Skills

When Candy JEM enter Mikael's apartment, they realise that it is unkept and messy. They help Mikael tidy up his living spaces and teach him helpful life skills. When also noticing that the food Mikael has is no where near proper and healthy meals, Joni whips up some food for him and the other girls. Mikael then plays a piece on his piano on Candy JEM's request as "payment" for their help.

### Making Decisions

Candy JEM walk home individually after their visit to Mikael's. When Mia is heading home, she encounters Charles and expresses her feelings of happiness regarding his (and Joni's) changes, although she states that she also has a weird sense of loss. Emilia also has a coincidental encounter with Corey where he lifts up Emilia's spirits. Not sure about what to do regarding Ms. Miyuki's suggestion for her to be class monitor, she visits Norman and asks if he thinks she is suitable. Norman says that indecisive people shouldn't be one, but still leaves the choice to her. The chapter ends with Ms. Miyuki announcing Emilia to be the new class monitor of 6A.

### The Difference Between Adults and Children

When Emilia is tasked to create a class cleaning roster, many students declare that they have "special requirements" and that they should be excused from partaking in cleaning. As much as it seemed that the "special requirements" were just excuses not to take part, she still decides to agree to adhere to the "special requirements", resulting in a roster mostly filled with her friends' names in order not to hurt the rest of her classmates' feelings.

When collecting Math homework, two students request for Emilia to ask their Math teacher to have mercy on them as they didn't bring their homework. Emilia goes with this, once again so that she wouldn't hurt their feelings, but got lectured instead. Emilia also sees that Norman is also getting scolded, and the two of them discuss why adults seem to ignore a child's reasoning compared to their own's.

### Burdens of the Job

Emilia is accused of betraying the two students who requested for her to help them out. Joni and Mia come to her defence although it isn't very effective until Norman vouches for her. Emilia realises that she doesn't have the same kind of trust established with her classmates compared to Norman, and that she has yet to gain their trust. After that, no more trouble came to Emilia except when she had allegedly dropped two exercise books that belong to the previous two students who were accusing Emilia of betrayal while handing up Math homework to her teacher. This leads her on a search for the two books, but all of her searching was in vain as she did not manage to find any of the books before her teacher left the school

### Don't Worry; Believe in Yourself

Emilia receives a text from her Math teacher stating how disappointed he is in her with a response saying how she will explain everything the next day. Following that, she receives a few messages from Corey on how he won to Asuka in badminton. However, she is unable to share her happiness with him due to what happened that day. On the actual following day, the two boys were yet again accusing Emilia of telling the teacher that they did not submit their work and that she could not take responsibility of her actions although this time, Emilia seemed unfazed. This was because had actually managed to prove that they did not do their work.

After that, Emilia came to the realisation that even though she may never be as good as Norman in terms of being a class monitor, that there is no need to anyway since she can be a great class monitor in her own way.

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