【正文】 ffice gets really messy! I sure could use some help.Diana: Well, I started mountain climbing a year and a half ago, and I just love it. Well, the next step for me is to concentrate on that sport and see where I can go with it. I’d love to someday say, five or ten years from now go mountain climbing in the Himalayas. They have some of the highest and most beautiful mountains in the world. That would be a real adventure! But before I do anything like that, I have to practice, practice, practice! And I have to get stronger –mentally as well as physically.Paul: So, Andrea, you going home for the holidays?Andrea: I sure am. I’ve booked a fight for tomorrow afternoon and I can’t wait!Paul: That sounds great.Andrea: What about you? Going home, too?Paul: I haven’t decided yet. I ‘m still debating…Andrea: Haven’t decide? Oh, you’re never going to get a flight out of there. I’m sure all the seats have been reserved by now. It’s the holiday season, after all!Paul: Well, it’s not such a big deal for me. My family only lives about a hundred and fifty miles from here. I usually drive or take the train. It’s a short trip.Andrea: You don’t sound very excited about it.Paul: Well, we are not really a very closeknit family. I have three brothers, and they’re spread out all over the place. One lives on the East Coast and the other on the West Coast. I even have a brother in Montreal!Andrea: oh, wow! What does he do?Paul: Translation work! It’s kind of strange, but we rarely get together as family anymore.Andrea: Well, I try to get home as much as possible. We’re a big family there are six of us children so it’s always a lot of fun.Paul: Six kids?Andrea: Yep! And we’re all really close. You should see it most of us are married, too, so it makes for a very crowded house over the holidays.Paul: I can imagine.Andrea: Of course. There are too many people to cook dinner for. It’s a real headache for my parents. So we end up going out to dinner a lot. It’s pretty crazy.Paul: Well, at my house my mother loves to cook. So, when all of us do get home which isn’t that often she always cooks big, homemade meals. We have leftovers for days!Unit 2Carol: Well, I went away to college when I was seventeen. I’d never lived away from my parents before, and I was really looking forward to it. But I was also scared because I was leaving my friends behind, and I didn’t know anyone when I first arrived. I lived in a really big dormitory and shared a room with two other girls. I guess the thing I learned the most was how to get along with other you know, how to respect other people’s opinions and property stuff like that. At home I’d always had my own room. This was the first time I’d had to live with other people in the same room. We were all really differentI mean, our personalities and lifestyles were pletely opposite in some ways! Anyway, at first it really caused problems, but we learned how to get along living in those tight quarters. Three seventeenyearolds living in one room can you imagine? I’m surprised we survived it at all. Michael: I think, for myself, the hardest thing was learning how to manage my owe time better. I used to stay up late watching TV a lot, didn’t eat well, often went to class unprepared, and things liked that. My grades were really suffering, and I could hardly keep my eyes open in class! It was a drag! Somehow, midway through the semester, I changed and started to do well. Organizing my time was a real challenge. In high school, I didn’t have to worry I had the same schedule every day, and at night my parents were pushing me to study. But it’s different when you go away to college. You have to learn to take responsibility for your actions. No one is going to tell you what to do. You have to figure it out yourself. Frank: I’m having some trouble with chemistry this year. It’s hard. The teacher acts like we’re so smart that we ought to have no trouble learning it. I find the textbook confusing, and then I get discouraged. Well, some of us got together and formed a study group. It seems to work ok most of the time we pare notes and then go over the discussion questions in each chapter. The only problem is that sometimes one of my friends will e to the study group unprepared. He’ll forget his notes or he won’t have read the book beforehand. That really bothers me and I guess those guys who don’t prepare are going to have hard time on the final exam. Regina: I’m trying to learn this new puter program at school. It’s kind of embarrassing most of the other kids have already picked it up, and I just can’t get it. There’s this software manual at school I borrowed the book and took it home to read, but it didn’t seem to help. There was simply too much information for me to remember. My problem is that I don’t have enough time to sit down and learn it properly. I’m not sure that what to do next. Sonia: I’m going to France next summer, so I want to learn as much French as I can. So, I started taking a French class at the local munity center. Well, the great thing is the class is free. The problem is it’s not very easy. Well, you see, it’s supposed to be beginning –level class no way! I’m telling you, most of the person in there they already knew how to speak French when they started the class. They can say basic conversational phrases, and they know how to pronounce the words. I am plete beginner! I did not know one word of French when I started this class! So I always feel lost even from day one, I had no idea what was going on. Now, the teacher is nice, but he’s not very good! He gets off the topic, and he’ll get stuck on some tiny, little point for like half an hour at a time. But I really shouldn’t plain because after all, this class is free! Unit 3Andy: Well, this is Andy Wong, and we’re just about at the end of another episode of “Where in the world…?” But before we sign off, I’d like to tell you a little about tomorrow’s program. Tomorrow we have a very