Young people and older people do not always agree with each other. They sometimes have different ideas about living, working and playing. But in a programme in New York, adults and teenagers live together in peace.

Each summer 200 ______ and 50 adults live together for eight weeks as members of a work group. Everyone works several hours each day .The aim is not just to keep busy. It is to find meaning in work. Some teenagers work on the ______near the village. Some learn to build a house. The adults ______ them. There are several free hours each day. Weekends are ______,too. Each teenager has his own way to ______ his free time.

When people live together, rules are always ______. In this programme the teenagers and adults make the rules together. If someone ______ a rule, the problem goes before the whole group. They ask, “Why did it happen？______ do we have to do with it？”

One of the teenagers talks about his experience, “Stop thinking ______ about yourself,learn _______ to think about the group.”