When I was growing up everyone liked coming to my flat. My friends really enjoyed themselves hanging out. They looked forward to parties at my flat. During weekends there were gatherings which involved my friends from school and neighbourhood. My parents knew that I had a lot of friends and that I enjoyed parties. They did not have anything against parties but they set some rules.
They wanted my friends to feel comfortable and have fun but we lived in a small town and everyone was looking out for possible scandals to talk about. If there was only a hint of someone behaving in an inappropriate way at my party, my parents would call and ask about what was happening.
These are some of the rules my parents set for my teenage parties:
When I look back at the things I was doing when I was a teenager, I think that my parents were right. Hosting parties was a great opportunity for me to practice my social skills. It was always possible for something to go wrong and having rules was important.
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flat-stan gathering-okupljanje neighbourhood-susedstvo rule-pravilo scandal-skandal hint-nagoveštaj purpose-svrha consequence-posledica cursing-psovanje display-iskazivanje affection-naklonost, nežnost respect-poštovanje privacy-privatnost atmosphere-atmosfera incident-incident opportunity-prilika skill-veština hosting-vođenje |
hang out-“visiti”, družiti se look forward-jedva čekati involve-uključivati look out-pripravno gledati, paziti protect-zaštititi put into force-staviti na snagu respect-poštovati provide-obezbediti settle-rešiti, razrešiti |
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comfortable-ugodan, prijatan inappropriate-neprikladan, neodgovarajući simple-jednostavan illegal-ilegalan right-pravi, u pravu embarrassing-neprijatni luckily-srećom minor-manji social-društveni, socijalni wrong-pogrešno, naopako |
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flat - apartment
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hang out - get together
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comfortable - pleasant
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gathering-division, separation |
hang out-disagree
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comfortable-uncomfortable |
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