Friends play a indispensible role in one’s life. Traditionally, there are several ways to make new friends. Different one have different preference to make new friends. For me, although traveling has some advantages of building up new relationships. there is no better ways than participating in community activities to make new friends.
Some people claim that they do not like doing exercise. Thus, they will choose traveling as their primary way to build-up new relationships. They think it is more interesting and amazing through traveling to make new friends. In such way, they can appriciate the differences between themselves and foreign friends. They can exchange different points about anything such as cultures, politics, folks and so on. The experience of my uncle is a good example. He have ever been to korea and made some new friends with locals. After he back to China, he still talk with his foreign friends through e-mail or MSN. He tells me that the korean friends give him various perspective of society. Finally, he asserts that making new friends through traveling is recommendable. But for me, as a student, due to the lack of time and money, making new friends by taking part in community activities appears to be a better choice.
First of all, participating in community activities enlarges my social network and offers me more opporturnities to meet new individuals. For example, I was born in a big city called Tianjin. When I was studying in university whom location is far away from my hometown. I joined an assosiation called Tianjin Club. The club included almost all Tianjin students who were studying in my university. We had some activities regularly. On Friday, we had dancing party. On Sunday, we went out together at afternoon and had a delicious meal. In general, we went to the KTV after the meal. In that club, I encountered a lot of students who became my best friends later.
Secondly, everyone is likely to make new friends who have similar hobbies. If one likes to play instrument and the other one enjoy to do excercising, they would be hardly to build up a solid relationship. Taking part in specific community activities rises the possibility of meeting ones who have similar even same hobbies with you. For instance, there are a big deal of clubs in the society such as photography club, literiature club, fashion salon and so on. If one enjoys reading books and sharing her or his points, joining in to a literature club will not be a disappointment.
In conclusion, participating community activities is a good way for students to make new friends because it offers their more opportunities to make friends easily by broaden their social network then meet more people, and to encounter more ones who have similar hobbies.
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