Very glad to receive your e-mail. As you said, sometimes it feels uncomfortable to talk to people, especially people you don’t know. If you don’t know how to make friends, I’Il give you some advice.

Do you have any hobbies? One of the best ways to make friends is to find people with the same hobbies. For example, when I was a child, I made friends by finding other people who enjoyed the same kind of music as me. I even formed a band（乐队）with some of them. To this day, most of my friends are fellows（伙伴）in the band. So, I’d suggest joining a club at your school that is centered（集中于）on your hobbies. If there aren’t any clubs like that, maybe you could ask your teachers if you could start your own club.

Yours,

Mike

【推荐2】I have three good friends—Mike, Grace and Bill. Each (各自) of them likes to eat different kinds of (种类) food.

Mike is 13 years old. He usually (经常) has some bread and milk for breakfast. As for lunch, he always eats rice and vegetables. Sometimes (有时), he has chicken and he likes it. And he often (时常) has noodles (面条) for dinner at home.

Grace is 14 years old. She doesn’t have any breakfast in the morning on school days. She says she has no time for it. She likes chicken, hamburgers and eggs for lunch. She doesn’t have any rice or vegetables for dinner. She usually has some meat (肉) for it.

Bill is 15 years old. He usually has some noodles and milk for breakfast. For lunch, he likes some carrots. He likes some rice, too. He does not like chicken at all. But his sister Alice does. He often has some rice, soup and fruit salad for dinner.

【推荐3】Gina is my best friend at school. She is an American girl. She is 14 and she is short. She likes T-shirts and often wears them. We are in the same school but in different classes. We have classes from Monday to Friday. She and I always talk and laugh（笑）.

There are many things we both like. We often listen to music and sing songs. We also like going to the movies, but sometimes we can’t agree on（同意）which movie to see, because we like different kinds of movies. We like reading and swimming, too. On weekends, we are at home and do our homework, watch TV, play sports or go to music clubs（俱乐部）.

My math and science are good and her favorite subjects are English and history, so we can help each other. Sometimes we are busy, but we can always find time to see each other.