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Jody
Yang Chen
Fairfax
VirginiaAnd I'm Jody! Welcome to American Cafe! Thanks for dropping in. Summer is just around the corner.
Oh yea! Water sports! I love it! Swimming, rafting, boating...
Oh, that's right. I thought you would forget about it, since last time when the topic of scuba diving came up, you sounded kind of ify about it.
"Ify" means you're not sure about something. You're full of ifs, "if this happens..." or "if that happens..."
Well, whether or not I'm afraid of the ocean, this year I'm going to try it! I've had a strong feeling lately of wanting to leave the Earth. Do you know what I'm talking about?
You got it! So, I thought I should meet some people who scuba dive. Today we're going to meet John.
My name is John. I'm from the Dive Shop in Fairfax, Virginia. Well, I started scuba diving in 1957 so I've been diving longer than most people I know have been alive. I have almost 10,000 scuba dives in my life and this is what I do for a career.
Me either.
Let's have John answer the question "Why do you love scuba diving?"
Well, most everyone that you know doesn't dive, so that separates you from most people. What I find is it's an opportunity to go ahead and appreciate a portion of the Earth that most people will never get a chance to see. An opportunity to go out into a relatively pristine and wild environment is quite fascinating.
Pristine. Pristine is spelled P-R-I-S-T-I-N-E and it means that something is pure and untouched. Usually, pristine is used to describe a natural environment or landscape.
But you know, Yang Chen, simply going underwater is not the end goal of scuba diving. There's much more to it than that. | 
发表于 2016-8-2 13:02:28