Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast, number 18.

Seen Old Friends

This is English as a Second Language podcast, episode 18.

I'm your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development

in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

In this episode, Lucy is going to tell us about some old friends that she saw recently.

Let's get started.

This has been a month for seeing old friends.

I got an email a couple of weeks ago from an old friend from college.

She and her family are visiting L.A. for a week. They plan to see family and to visit old friends.

Since she moved away, I hadn't seen her in ages.

I'm looking forward to meeting her new kids and seeing her again. Another old friend called this week.

She and I were buddies when we were young.

She plans to swing by L.A. on her way to San Francisco.

We've made plans to have lunch.

She works in Washington, D.C., and is normally very busy. I'm glad she could make time for us to get together. When we say goodbye to our friends, we always hope to keep in touch. But what with this and that? It's sometimes hard to do.

With friends that I've fallen out of touch with, it's sometimes hard to meet again and pick up where we left off. We've both moved on to a different phase in our lives.

Some of my old friends have become very successful and are living lives in the fast lane.

Other friends are having a more difficult time and are just making ends meet. But no matter how they're doing, it's always nice to touch base again.

I'm really looking forward to seeing these old pals

and catching up after all this time.

We just won't mention how much we've aged.

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