I’m a person that is not very talkative, which causes me to have only a handful of friends that I can know well. Yin was one of my friends that I know from the first day of my freshman year in high school. It was during lunchtime on that day when he suddenly came and sit next to me while I was eating my lunch. He started to ask me whether or not I speak Chinese and I answer him with a yes. He said he was very happy because he was finally not the only Chinese speaking people in this high school. Then we quickly became good friends since we have many interests in common. The thing that makes this friendship significant is the fact that we were able to have someone in school who we can use our native language to communicate with each other. There are zero people in that high school that can speak Chinese other than us two. There has been a challenge in our friendship since we were able to meet much when he went to college. But we sometimes still communicate with each other during social media.
It’s so nice to have a friend that shares your language! Keeping up with friends once you’ve gone to different colleges is hard, but doable!