turned into meeting up. At that time, our conversations were brief. Questions and answers were a constant. We were trying to get to know more of each other. I guarded many of my personal information because I did not know if our relationship/friendship would last more than a day or weeks. Politeness can be expected at this stage and so were we. During the involvement stage, we exchanged roles of speaker and listener. During that time, we both listened to each other and did not want to miss
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English P. 4 19 September 2010 The Right Decision? The sun shined down on a beautiful day as my friends and I sat at home staring blankly out the window. For two years now we went out on various adventures and created an exceptionally close friendship. Some may even have though we were brothers by the amount of time we spent together. Today, even with the cool crisp air outside and the wonderful chirping of birds, our gloomy attitudes kept us sitting on the couch. The day slowly dragged on, until
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before I join. So he has his own circle of friends. I tell you he is fun to be with. We are not close as what you think, not until the day, August 18, 2011, 2am in the morning on the dark side walk of Colliado st., he was stabbed and his gadgets was stolen. (“ I bathed with my own blood. I was so afraid and helpless at the same time. You what I really prayed that stab wounds did not severely reached my vital organs and that GOD won’t allow me to die.”) A tricycle driver helped him even the motorcycle
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lose confidence in yourself. However, every friend is not the same type. One might have more close friends than acquiantenaces, while others might have more acquaintenaces than close friends, but either way, majority of people that develop great friendships either fall into one of the categories, or even each of the three categories: best friends, close friends, and acquaintences. Every person has a best friend, if not more. They are your absolute closest friends in ife, and you wouldn't give
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until our senior year. He was and still is the only person who ever understood me better than I even understand myself; it was like he could read my mind. I can say with complete confidence that I never had one romantic thought about him our whole friendship; it was just like we were meant to be best friends. I can’t speak for him but I can guess that he never held any romantic feelings for me either. We did everything together, went everywhere together, and told each other everything. At the start
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Close Friendship As the new century came, we had some new tools, including telephone, email, and social networking sites, to get contact with the others. For instance, Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites at present, where we can show ourselves and make some new friends. Telephone is another important tool to help us keep in touch with friends or relatives who we can not talk face to face. Thanks to technology, such as cell phones, message, and social networking
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In its most basic sense, ‘pakikisama’ means going along with others. Among friends and even relatives, it is considered obnoxious and unacceptable to give a direct command. To minimize the directness or “impact” of the command, Filipinos use paki nga or maki- so as not to offend. Even a boss in the office would use ‘paki-’ the equivalent of “please” in English, in giving a request to a subordinate even when some one is of great and more elusive status int he commnuity. This is part of
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Runner, original social status is proven to create barriers in life regarding the aspects of friendship, mindset, and adaptation to change as we observe Baba’s and Amir’s life journeys in order to discover how it affects these aspects. Amir’s friendship with his hazara servant’s son Hassan takes a sudden toll as he ultimately comes to believe that traditional and historical beliefs outweighed true friendship as he was a young child. The mindset of Baba does not adjust when he and Amir are forced
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College “college” what easily come up to your mind when we hear this word there are so many neither things nor questions coming up to my mind. Questions that I do want to know the answers. When I reached one of the best things in my life being a teenager, I saw the best things in my life being a teenager, I saw that everything has changed. All are interesting and exciting to explore. There are several stages in tertiary level, first year or what we called freshmen, second year/sophomore third
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America, San Diego, Beaches, Americans. People might think it is like paradise where I went. Where everyone admires San Diego so much of the great weather and relaxing beaches. But reality is that it was my first time to be 7375 miles away from home, Macau. It was tough knowing you would not be able to go back until summer. It was a very deep experience when I first came to college, assuming that I would have to put so much effort in to be a part in this country, a place where I felt strange, new
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