L5 Unit 2-1 dialogue 少年时期

M1: What’s so funny? What are you writing about?

M2: I’m writing about something I saw earlier this morning.

M1: Really, do you keep a journal?

M2: Yes, I do. Every weekend I write about things that happened during the week.

M1: How long have you been doing it?

M2: I’ve been doing it fairly regularly since high school.

M1: Are you going to turn it into a book?

M2: I don’t know. Maybe I will someday, but for now it’s just for me.

M1: So what was so interesting about what you saw this morning?

M2: I was in the same coffee shop I usually go to and a group of teenagers came in.

M2: I couldn’t help watching them and try to hear some of their conversation.

M1: That must have been interesting.

M2: Yes, it was. The more I watched them, the more I realized how glad I am that I don’t have to go through that state of life again. M1: So it brought back some memories, right?

M2: Yes, it did. It was so clear how I’m uncomfortable some of them were. Yet, they were pretending to have good time. At least, there how was seemed to me.

M1: Why did you think they were pretending?

M2: It was just the way they smiled and laughed. It seemed unnatural and overdone, as if they were bad actors.

M2: 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 and laughing.

M1: Yes, I can imagine it. I can remember wanting to be popular when I was in high school. Now that you mentioned it, it wasn’t a great time, thought I had so fun too.

M2: I guess it wasn’t so bad at the time, except when I was preparing for my university entrance examinations.

M1: Yes, that was awful. My parents put tons of pressure on me so I thought I was going to go crazy. M2: What about girls? Did you have any girlfriends?

M1: There was one girl I had a crush 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.

M2: Really? You should become a writer or make a movie. You had a great imagination.

M: To be honest, it’s much easier to imagine things than actually do things.

M: You can say that again. It seemed unnatural and overdone, as if they were bad actors.