【话匣子英语】友谊

 小时候的朋友，长大后的友谊，说到朋友，总是有说不完的话.....

Maura:            All right. Now let’s get to today’s episode 1. Today’s episode is a Chatterbox episode, and that is when Harp 2 and I just get to chat.

Harp:              Yes. Today we’re talking about friendship.

Maura:            That’s right. Now, we’re first going to start talking about friendship when you’re a kid, and what that is like. We’re gonna talk about what it’s like in Canada and we’re gonna talk about our own experiences.

Harp:              Yeah. And then we’re gonna talk about friendship with technology, and how that’s changing and making things different.

Maura:            That’s right. And then we’re gonna talk about making friends as an adult, because I’ve heard some people find it difficult.

Harp:              Yeah. So let’s get started.

Maura:            So when you were young, Harp, did you have a lot of friends or did you have just a few really good friends?

Harp:              I had a few really good friends. I was really shy, so I wasn’t the kind of kid who made a lot of friends. But when I made a friend, they were a good friend.

Maura:            That’s nice. So, it was someone that you could really trust and knew that you could count on?

Harp:              Yeah. And play with. Play Barbies or make up games.

Maura:            Yeah. Those are very important qualities when you’re a kid; trying to find a person that you can play with and have fun with. But that ends up being pretty much everybody.

Harp:              I know. That’s the thing. When you’re a kid, it’s just so easy to make friends.

Maura:            That’s true. As long as you can get together and you like doing the same things, then your friendship is pretty much set.

Harp:              What about you? Did you have a lot of friends when you were a kid?

Maura:            I actually had a pretty big group of friends. At school, I was friends with most people in my class. There was a really big group of us. Of course, some of those people were closer friends than others. But I tended to get along with everybody. And I’ve always been pretty outgoing and friendly. So, yeah, I made a lot of friends easily.

Harp:              OK. That’s cool. And now, Maura, I don’t think I even know this about you. But did you grow up in a school that you walked to when you were a kid? So were all your friends close by?

Maura:            Yeah. I went to a few different schools growing up, but for the most part, the school that I went to was walking distance. And so, yeah, all of my friends lived in the neighbourhood and I could walk there. Although to tell you the truth, most of the time I still got a ride from my parents.

Harp:              Lucky! I remember walking even when there were snow storms.

Maura:            Yeah. So it made spending time with friends after school pretty easy. What about you?

Harp:              Yeah, same thing. I lived within walking distance. I went to a couple different schools, but all the time I could walk to school and almost every one of my friends lived close by.

Maura:            One thing I remember about my friendships when I was young was that there was always some kind of drama 3 happening. One friend got mad at another friend and then you had to decide who… whose side you were on. And sometimes the fights between people could go on for a month at a time. I really didn’t like participating in that, actually.

Harp:              Yeah. It’s funny because it’s easy to become friends when you’re a kid, but it’s so easy to just switch 4 and then all of a sudden 5 you’re not friends, and people are mad at you, and then there’s drama. I think maybe because there’s nothing else going on in life. You don’t have a job; you just have school and home. And these problems, which really aren’t problems, become so big and important when you’re a kid.

Maura:            Yeah. Some people just make a mountain out of a mole 6 hill and one little comment turns into an argument that lasts for a week. It’s a bit crazy. But that’s what they say: kids are mean. And sometimes, unfortunately, they’re mean to their friends, too.