30 Days of English Family Conversations Day 2
hi and welcome to day 2 of 30 days of
English this week we’re talking about
relationships first we’re going to talk
about family then friends then romantic
relationships so today we’re talking
about family memories are you ready
let’s get started
today I have a special guest to
introduce you to this is my husband
Daniel hello do you want to go by Dan
you can call me Dan oh you wouldn’t know
okay so today Dan is going to share some
stories about his family with us and
then throughout the course he’s going to
also take part in our conversation
lessons are you ready I’m ready
all right so today we’re going to talk
about family and are there any
interesting fun scary strange family
memories that you have that you’d like
to share with everyone sure I have a
memory of when I was a child so when I
was maybe nine years old or so my mother
told my brother and I to go to bed and
we went to bed but just like most
children we wanted to play allies so we
had a bunk bed so that’s a bed below and
a bed on top and we were playing on the
bunk bed and on the bunk bed there’s a
railing and the railing was loose so you
could you could kind of swing it back
and forth and it would make a loud sound
and we thought that was funny so the
scary part of the story is that the
railing had nails at the end of it so
when my brother was swinging the the
railing back and forth my face somehow
got in the way and the railing house
necked me in the face with the nail so
in my bed I was lying down with blood
rolling down my face and my mom she
thought we were just
you were screaming and mom help me right
so I was like mommy mommy and my mom
said be quiet up there so she wanted us
to go to sleep still so like a good
child I went to sleep with blood on my
face huh so then later that night when I
was sleeping my mom came upstairs and
saw me sleeping but I had dried blood
all over my face and she was like ah so
that was a scary story for my mom
especially I think yeah but you were you
hurt badly were you hurt permanently was
it okay no I don’t even think there’s a
scar anything it’s just um must have
been like a very little nail hit my face
you’re lucky I didn’t hit your eye yes
I’m very lucky but it was a very funny
story in hindsight but for my mother it
was not very funny sure in hindsight
it’s okay but not at the moment
exactly oh sure so how about for you do
you have any stories um yes so one of
the stories about my family is also from
my childhood and so I have some of you
might know I have a sister a younger
sister and when we were younger
of course like every child at Christmas
we didn’t want to wait for Christmas to
find out what our Christmas presents
were so sometimes we would scheme and
plan and try to find a way where we
could open our Christmas presents before
Christmas so sometimes a few days before
Christmas our parents would put
Christmas presents under the tree just
to tempt us but while they were outside
doing something or asleep at night my
sister and I would go downstairs and
open just one or two Christmas presents
but we’d carefully pry open the tape and
the peek inside and sometimes we pulled
it out like oh and then we put it
carefully wait you took out the whole
present sometimes sometimes we did if it
was possible to not mess up the wrapping
oh very sneaky yes but we had to satisfy
our curiosity
so we
we would put them carefully back into
the the wrapping and then put the tape
down but we were worried that maybe on
Christmas morning
our parents would think why aren’t they
surprised about their presents so my
sister and I would practice making
surprised faces so that evening when we
were secretly opening them we in
practice
pretending to open them like oh oh woah
just to practice ridiculous surprise
faces because we didn’t want anyone to
find out that we’d really seen the
present ahead of time Wow and it worked
well the surprised faces work yes yes so
it worked and Christmas morning my
sister and I just laughed and laughed
because we knew that each other’s
surprised faces were just fake right did
your parents think you were seriously
laughing like just excited oh of course
of course they were completely naive and
had no idea I think maybe later in life
we confessed and told them Oh back when
we were younger we used to secretly open
the presents but I don’t even know if
they were upset it’s one of those funny
stories right yeah oh yeah probably not
upset anymore uh yeah they probably
didn’t care though thank you for sharing
a story about your family
yeah well and I hope you enjoyed my
story about my childhood as well and
today thank you for watching day 2 is
day 2 today
and if you are a super English member
make sure that you watch this week’s
bonus video about family and now for
everyone I have a question that I want
you to answer out loud as best as you
can what is a good memory from your
childhood or a bad memory or a scary
memory like dance and I’ll talk to you
later
good bye bye bye