The Teenage Years
A:What so funny?What are you writingabout?
B:I'm writing about something i saw earlier this morning.
A:Really?Do you keept it a journal?
B:Yes i do.Every weekend i write about things that happened during the week.
A:How long you've been doing it?
B:I've been doing it fairly regularly since high school.
A:Are you going to turn it into a book?
B:I don't know.Mybe i will someday but for now it's just for me.
A:So,what was so interesting about what you saw this morning?
B:I was in the same coofee shop i usually go to and a group of teenagers came in.
I couldn't help watching them and trying to hear some of their conversation.
A:That must have been interesting.
B:Yes it was.
The more i watch them the more i realise how glad i am that i don't have to go through that stage of life again.
A:So it brought back some memory is it?
B:Yes it is .It was so clear how i comfortable some of them word yet they were pretending to have a good time.
At least that's how was seem to me.
A:Why do you think they were pretending?
B:It was just the way they smiled and laughed.
It seemed unnatural and overdone as if they were bad actors.
A:A couple of the boys were really awkward around the girls and two of the girls were wearing too much makeup.
I had to stop myself laughing.
B:Yes,I can imagine it.
I can remeber wanting to be popular when i was in high school.
Now that you mention it it wasn't a great time though i had some fun too.
A:I guess it wasn't so bad at the time except when i was preparing for my university entrance examinations.
B:Yes,that was oweful.
My parents put tons of pressure on me so i thought i was going to go crazy.
listen to the sentence and repeat after it.
(He is suprised to hear that his friend is keeping a journal.)
A:What about girls?Did you have any girlfriends?
B:Ther was one girl i had a crash on, but i thought she was interested in somebody else.
I didn't find out until much later that she was interested in me too.
It was a lost opportunity one of many.
A:Really,you should become a writer or make a movie.
You have a great imagination.
B:To be honest,it's much easier to imagine things than actually do things.
A:You can say that again.
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