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.