【美语咖啡屋】 新年的决心（上）

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Jody
Yang Chen
Chuck
JenHello, everyone, I'm Jody! Welcome to American Cafe!  And Happy New Year everyone!  Happy New Year, Yang Chen!  You know what January brings, don't you?
Of course, but after all that is over that's when the New Year's Resolutions kick in.  You know when they start.
You know, maybe we should talk about New Year's Resolutions a little bit to find out, you know, what we should give up for the New Year.   
Good idea. Here's Chuck from Washington DC with a definition of New Year's Resolutions...
Well, a New Year's Resolution is something that an individual chooses to do on the occasion of the new calendar year. They are starting off with a clean slate.  They are sort of having a fresh beginning and are going to take the occasion of the new year to introduce a new behavior or set some goals or, to the contrary, they are going to eliminate some behavior, perhaps a vice or a bad habit, and do their very best through the new year to improve their behavior.
Sure.  A clean slate.  And it just means a fresh beginning.  You know adding a good habit or giving up a vice or bad habit.  But I'm still not sure of anything I should give up for the New Year's.  What about you?
What, no bad habits?!  Are you sure?!  I can think of a couple bad habits you may have.  
Okay we'll keep that between us.  Let's introduce some of the people we met on New Year's Eve and hear what they were giving up for the new year.  The first one is Jen, from Boston.
My name is Jen and I'm from Boston and for 2004 I hope to be healthier, eat healthy, go out running and relax and find a balance in my life between work and relaxation, take some time for myself.