Friendship and poverty
Aug. 3rd, 2004 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_vultureYesterday, I was tutoring an ESL student. She's taking an English summer course and she needed assistance with a personal essay she had to write. The topic sentence was "the important things in life are the most enduring." In helping her with this, the topic of friendship came up. I asked her to think of an example of where a friend really came through for her. She was a bit stumped so I provided her with one of my own as an example.
When I first came to Victoria with a small number of good friends, we were well, very poor. We didn't have much in the way of cash on the move to here and some big financial setbacks made things quite ugly for a while. One of my roommates, Blaine, had a huge collection of paperback novels which he enjoyed reading over and over again. During this time period, he would sort through them and pick out his least favourites to sell for cash so we could pay for food. During the Thanksgiving of that year, he again sold a number of his novels and, with that money, bought us turkey subs from Subway so we would at least have turkey dinner. And that, folks, is what true friendship is about (chuckle!).
When I first came to Victoria with a small number of good friends, we were well, very poor. We didn't have much in the way of cash on the move to here and some big financial setbacks made things quite ugly for a while. One of my roommates, Blaine, had a huge collection of paperback novels which he enjoyed reading over and over again. During this time period, he would sort through them and pick out his least favourites to sell for cash so we could pay for food. During the Thanksgiving of that year, he again sold a number of his novels and, with that money, bought us turkey subs from Subway so we would at least have turkey dinner. And that, folks, is what true friendship is about (chuckle!).
