My High School Friend
Everyone must have his or her close friend. In fact, people always mention that “at home there are family members to take care of you or help you, but outside friends instead of your family take care or help you on everything”. So making friends are very important for everyone. Although I have many friends. But my closest friend is called Thanh in my high school in Vietnam.
I know him about ten years ago when I was 17 years old,. Thanh is older than me by two years. he has a good looking outside, his eyes are small like Koreans. He has a pretty nose like the famous singer Andy Lau .He is 6.1″ tall like a model. My friend Thanh is a sunny day. I still remember he always told me 2 sentences ” think before you do something, never give up in middle, finish to the end. Help people to make yourself happy”. He is a person like to help people. He always help old people across the street, buy food for homeless people or give them money. He helps me a lo in homework or money problems. Because my family is very poor. I don’t have enough money to buy books or pay fees for school. He always pays for me.
I am very happy and lucky that I made a friend like Thanh. I will keep a good relationship with him forever. Follow the sentences he said to me, to be successful in my future.
She was the first classmate i met on the first school day. To be honest, I didn’t like her because she was too sensitive to the cleanness of her desk. Otherwise, I was not good at socializing, maybe keeping quiet was the best way for me.
I never thought that we could be such close friends. Ond day, everything began as usual, but we would have physics lab.For me, almost everything a first tine in high school. I was a little bit panic about that.Not only because the lab was difficult,but also I needed a partner! I didn’t talk a lot in my class.I was just like invisible person. I told myself, I could do that without anyone.This lab was about Free Fall. Every group had at least two people that could finish. I stand here and felt so helpness. Suddently, I found she had two partners.It is unfair. Why such a mean girl could have two partners? My hear was so hurt like somebody hitting it.She seemed to realize what I thought and came to me. I could feel that my face turned red. Maybe a big fight would start.”Can I be your partner? If you wanted.”she said. I was so shocked that I didn’t know how to answer and stand here like a wire pole.”Can I be your partner?”she asked again. I nodded.”My name is Zhang Mei, you can call me May, my english name. You know, it’s very popular to have an english name.”she said.”Really? I don’t know that.” I answered in a very low voice.”Anyway, let’s finish this lab. I did this kind of lab when I had out school class. So those guys want to be my partner.”She was so talkative and active. I really misunderstood her personality. Absolutely, we got very high scores in that lab.
After this lab, we became very close friends. May told me the reason she liked hang out with me it was quiet. She could talk all the time and I just listened. I told her that I didn’t like her at the first time. She said she knew that. So she wanted to fix it. A friend is always better than an enemy. Until now, Free Fall was the deepest memory in my heart.
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.
Do you have a friend who you could count on? Someone who will be there to share your sadness, happiness, or even when you’re bored? My high school friend Danny is one of such people. We’ve known each other since we were in middle school. We hung out together and shared many blissful moments together. I sometimes feel like he is my long lost brother.
Since 9th grade, we’ve always been together. We ate lunch together at school, played video games, and went out to see movies together. Even though we didn’t have classes together, we did talk about them at lunch. We would talk about how our classes were fun, exciting, or boring. We would go on and on until the bell rang. So, the most fun times I’ve had are hanging out with Danny at lunch time in high school. And when people ask “Were there times when you guys fight?” I would answer “No”, because the times we spent together the most are at school, discussing how our classes went. So, the reason we didn’t fight is because the time we spent the most were in school. Though we did chat when we are playing games. Even then, we never fought. Maybe it’s because we were always on the same team. Thus, out of all my friends in high school, Danny is the one that I would consider the best friend. Maybe that’s why people always mistook us for brothers.
In conclusion, no one is ever alone. There will always be someone who you would consider a friend that you can trust. Someone who will walk with you through the sad time and happy time. When you find that person, he/she will be a friend of a life time.
-Thai Tran
Face the Life with Smile
When my family came to the United Stated as new immigrants, we faced many problems in the strange place. Renting and go to college has been become important things. So I have to go to work. Luckily, I found a job when the financial crisis occurred in the United Stated. I worked as a cashier at a supermarket. My originally opinion was became work-study students, and I was going to quit job if I had enough school fee. Busing work made me reduced to go to school times. I gradually thought study was not important for me. New job also was very helpful for my pay and let my family life has improved. But this type of life had changed after one time talking with a old lady.That talking changed my life and gave me a unforgettable experience .
Even if I was a temporary worker, but I usually work harder than other cashiers. I was grateful for this job that I always helped customers with carried groceries in my free time. During the Chinese New Year, Busy always become supermarket substitution. I saw a small lady when she turned. She was shopping many groceries at that time. I knew she wants my help. But there were many customers waiting for me. So she did not ask for any help. I felt so bad feeling because I haven’t helped. Then, I was happy when the manger loudly said:“ Xiao go to lunch.” I went to find old lady and push her shopping car went to parking lot. I prepared to leave when I put all groceries in her car. She grasps of my hand who gave me twenty dollars. She did not looks like a rich woman. This is reason why I did not accept her money. She said: “buying some stationery after the new semester. Young must go to college. You never gave up study when you worked. This kind of working can not change your life. You had better spent more time for college. The old lady gave me many pieces of suggest.I perfunctorily promise to her. I guilty that I have been lost my goal. After long time ago, I still remember her repeat word:“Knowledge changes destiny.” But her action and word is what I thought was impassion. I heard this theory for my parents more than once, but a strange lady made me feel more warmth in my heart.
I immediately quited job who back to college. I did not saw her again. In my impression, she always keep smile. Her word likes a drop of sunshine lighted my way of future. I had completed confidence in her word. This kind of smile stands a person face to life for confidence and look forward to future. Sometimes we ran into trouble, the new immigration must have a large of stress in the life. I only insist on that using a smile to facing life we would win the future.