friendship
making friends is a skill like many other skills. it improves with practice. if you want to meet people and make friends, you must be willing to take some actions. you must first go where there are people. you won’t make friends staying home alone. join a club or a group. taking with those who like the same things as you do is much easier. or join someone in some activities. many people are nervous when talking to new people. after all meeting strangers means facing the unknown. and it’s human nature to feel a bit uncomfortable about the unknown. most of our fears about dealing with new people come from doubts about ourselves. we imagine other people are judging us of finding us too tall or to short, too this or too that. but don’t forget that they must be feeling the same way. try to accept yourself as you are and try to put the other person at ease. you’ll both feel more comfortable.
try to be self-comfident even if you don’t feel that way. when you enter a room full of strangers, such as a new classroom, walk tall and straight, look directly at other people and smile.
if you see someone you like to speak to, say something . don’t wait for the other person to start a conversation.
just meeting someone new does not mean that you will make friends with that person-friendship is based on mutual liking and “give and take”. it takes time and effort to develop.

友谊是一种人际关系。交友是人的一种本能。患难之中，我们需要朋友帮助、支持和鼓励。取得了成绩，我们也需要朋友分享欢乐、。

友谊又是我们可以享受的最大乐趣之一。友谊蕴含真诚、热忱、怜悯、挚爱和乐于助人之意。在人的一生中，如果不认真谨慎地力求交结正直的朋友，他就不能从生活中获得最大益处。

懂得了友谊是多么宝贵之后，就应谨慎地选择朋友。真正的朋友品性良好，能力上等，心地善良；真正的朋友能分担我们的忧伤，倍增我们的欢乐。交友之时，要谨慎选择具有这样美好品质的人。然后应以礼待友，当心不要无理地妨碍他们，不嘲笑他们的所作所为。我们应原谅朋友的失败，并尽己所能帮助他们。 简言之，建立了友谊之后，要通过言语和行动来珍惜友谊，像爱护宝物一样爱惜友谊。只有这样，才能发展真正的友谊，让神圣的友谊之灯照亮我们一生。

　　 friendship is a kind of human relations. it is a human instinct to make friends.when in trouble, we

　　need friends to offer us help, support and encouragement. with success achieved, we also need friends to share our joys.

　　 friendship is also one of the greatest pleasures that we can enjoy. it implies loyalty, cordiality, sympathy, affection,and readiness to help. no man can make the most of his life without carefully and conscientiously striving to win the right kind of friends as he goes along.

　　 knowing how valuable friendship is, we should be very careful in making friends. real friends are those who have good character, superior ability and kindness of heart. real friends can share all our sorrows and double all our joys.while making friends, we should take care to select those who have such fine qualities. then we should treat our friends with courtesy, be careful not to interfere unreasonably with them,and not to ridicule their proceedings. we should forgive their failures and do our best to help them. in short, when we have established friendship, we ought to cherish and treasure it by means of words and deeds. only thus, can we develop real friendship and keep the sacred lamp of friendship burning all our life.