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You know what time it is? It’s story time. A I said it’s story time. Alright. Today’s story. You know, in the lesson I was teaching you how to speak about relationships, right? So I wanna tell you about one of my closest friends. I mean, she is going to be in my wedding, her and her husband.
Now, the first time I met her, we were in South Korea and we were both. Missionary English teachers, and we had started living together. This was before she got married. Her husband was there too, but they were engaged at the time. So he lived in a separate apartment and she stayed in the apartment that I was assigned to.
So she had her room and I had my room. Now we didn’t know each other well, as you all know though. First, I enjoy cooking. Second, I am an early bird. Maybe you don’t know that I am an early bird. I will wake up at 4:00 AM with no problem at all. 4:00 AM wide-eyed. Ready to get started with the day, however, at eight o’clock at night.
No, I’m tired. I am Ty yt. My whole family is actually like that. We are early birds. So anyways, when we first moved in together, we didn’t know. Our styles, we didn’t know. I didn’t know if she was an early bird or if she was a night owl, so we had to kind of get used to each other. Again, she’s one of my closest friends right now.
So we had first moved in with each other and at this time I was working and studying at the same time. So I would normally get up very early in the morning to study and spend the whole day on Sunday at a Starbucks. But again, we were living together, so we had our separate duties. One week I’d clean the kitchen.
The next week she’d do the kitchen, and we kind of alternated kitchen and the bathroom. So this just happened to be my week to clean the kitchen. But remember I told you I was working and studying, so I had to be gone all day. But again, we had just met, it had only been maybe a week or two that we’ve been living together.
So I did not want to leave the apartment without cleaning the kitchen. I didn’t want her to think that I wasn’t doing my part. So I went into the kitchen, I think it was about six or 7:00 AM It was early, but I was trying to wash the dishes quietly, and then in the midst of washing, I heard her in her room.
So I assumed, oh, she’s an early bird like me, because I thought she was awake and moving around in her room. So I started cleaning the kitchen normally, I mean, pots were hitting each other again. I thought she was awake. I thought she was also an early bird. So I’m washing the dishes happy that I’m doing my part before I had to leave to go study.
So I’m washing the dishes and the door opens. So I’m thinking she’s like, yes, Tiffany is an early bird too. Let’s have a conversation. So I’m wiping one of the dishes and I turn around to look to her and say, good morning. And when I turned around, it was like, uh, a breeze, a cool breeze that was not welcomed.
Hit me like a cold wind. It was like ice. And I looked at her and she just glared at me. Now I again, I’m happy all the time, so I said, Hey, good morning. She didn’t say anything. She just looked at me nostrils flaring. I said, this is not what I expected. Again, I’m holding the dish, looking at her. The situation is really awkward.
She is wrapped up in a blanket. I said, okay, maybe she’s cold. It was the summertime though. She just glared at me. Remember I said, good morning, and she did not respond, and she proceeded to shut her door. She was still in the kitchen with me though. She shut her bedroom door and she walked towards our front door the entire time.
She’s staring at me. Glaring. I said, maybe this is not what I expected. And she opened the front door and slammed it. I said, okay. Not sure what just happened there. Fast forward several months now we are super close again. We got, we never talked about what happened. Several months later, we had gotten close.
There was another coworker and we were having, I think a movie night and my roommate had stepped out for a second and this coworker and I were talking and she was like, girl, I’m glad y’all are close friends. I said, yeah, you know, really cool. She said, I’m not sure what happened in the beginning though. I said, what do you mean?
And she said, our friend is not an early bird, and that our friend, the one that was my roommate, actually told her, I don’t know if I’m gonna be able to live with Tiffany. She wakes up too early, it’s too loud, and I can’t believe she woke me up. I had no idea that she had complained to the other coworker.
Now again, this is months later, so all of us are super close. And we laughed about it, but I never will forget that situation because I honestly, honestly thought that she was in her room awake and moving around. And so, yes, the other coworker said, no, TIFF. She was pretty mad. So again, when she came back in the room, I looked at her and I said, aha.
So you were mad at me. You didn’t tell me. And she burst out laughing because again, we are super close now, but in the very beginning, she didn’t tell me how she really felt about that day. So it’s kind of an ongoing joke we have now. They all know I’m an early bird and at night they stay up and I go to sleep.
So we’re all very close again, but I will never forget that situation. So maybe you have a friend like that. That maybe at the beginning of your friendship it was a little bit rocky. It was. You weren’t sure if you were gonna make it. Let us know in the comment section. Alright guys, I really hope you enjoyed today’s lesson.
Don’t forget to think and then speak English fluently. I’ll catch you next time. Have an awesome week.