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I think the key to making friends is having the same conceptions of life, morality and world and hobbies. I always have the feeling that I may know someone for a really long time, but it’s still awkward if you keep us siting around a table to chat. We’re not able to have the same feelings when it comes to certain topics. For instance, speaking of ocean, all I can think of is those amazing creatures and corals, instead he may tell me that people can be drowned in it.
I had a trip to semporna to get my scuba diving license last week, which is my first time traveling by myself. In case I’d eat alone there, I even looked for partners online in advance which I had never did before. To be honest, I didn’t look forward to meeting some interesting friends in such a short time. All I want was finding some normal people to have dinner, as my diving school would provide us lunch.
Sometimes the bigger expectation you have, the bigger disappointment it would lead to. I expected nothing when I arrived my hostel, because I didn’t want my trip to be ruined by that kind of disappointment. But guess what, most of the tenants there had the same goal as I did. Though we weren’t all in the same diving school, we still had to learn the same books and finish the same papers. Even if we came from different places and did totally different kinds of work, some of them were still students, it was quite easy for us to chat about everything the minute we met.
Therefore, it could be one of my favorite trips by now. Not only did I get my license, but I met a lot of new friends as well.

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I think the key to making friends is having the same conceptions about life, morality, and the world, as well as similar hobbies. Whenever I’m with people who don’t have the same feelings as I do on certain topics, even if I know them for a really long time it’s still awkward if we sit at a table and chat. For instance, if we speak about the ocean, all I can think of are amazing creatures and corals, but instead he may tell me that people can drown in it.

I had a trip to Semporna to get my scuba diving license last week, and that was my first time traveling by myself. When I was there, whenever I’d have to eat alone, I would go online and look for people to go with me, which is something I had never done before. To be honest, I didn’t expect to meet interesting friends in such a short time. All I wanted was to find some normal people to have dinner with, as my diving school would provide us lunch.
Sometimes the bigger expectation you have, the bigger disappointment it leads to. I had no expectations when I arrived at my hostel, because I didn’t want my trip to be ruined by that kind of disappointment, but surprisingly most of the other guests there had the same goal as I did. Though we weren’t all in the same diving school, we still had to learn from the same books and finish the same papers. Even though we came from different places and did totally different kinds of work (some of them were actually still students), it was quite easy for us to chat about anything the minute we met. For that reason, I could say that this was one of my favorite trips so far. Not only did I get my license, but I met a lot of new friends as well.