my High School Friend Agnes
Class: E.S.L. 6A
Name: Xiangyi Mei
Date: 03-13-2013
My High School Friend Agnes
Agnes is one of my best friends in high school. I still remember the first day we met at school. Her optimism impressed and affected me so much.
The first day in school, it rained heavily. So, after lunch, I stayed at classroom finding something to do. At this time, Agnes came in alone. In my hometown, asking others whether they had lunch or not is polite. I asked her, and then she said she had already eaten lunch alone. “If I ate lunch alone, I would feel lonely.” I said. But her words reminded me of my lunch experience, eating with a classmate who kept talking and talking when I was eating was more tolerated than eating alone. She said: “Eating alone is better than eating with someone you don’t like.” We said maybe we could have lunch together tomorrow. In fact, the time we had lunch together for almost 3 years.
You would think she didn’t study hard because she took it easy in all tests or exams. Even she messed up in her exams; she still believed she could do it better in the future. I would become nervous when I was waiting for my score. She seemed not to care about the mark so others would consider she didn’t take it seriously. As a matter of fact, we always studied together at weekends. She comforted me when I got low mark. She said: “Why you waste your time feeling upset on the thing which has already passed away. Keep moving on, you can do nothing about the past but you still handle your future.”
Everyone thought she enjoyed having fun all the time. Because she knew where she had delicious food to eat and where she had interesting entertainment to play. But I know she wasn’t only focusing her mind on those things. Her mum complained her father always played cards with his friends and smoked when he was playing cards. She understood her father did this for business and had no choice. So, she wrote a 4-full-page letter to her father. She tried her best to help her mum and her father to solve this problem. Her consideration also impressed me.
Now, she is in Sydney and I am in Los Angeles. We struggle for our life in different places. We still encouraged each other as usual; even we are in different places.