shes only my sister

                                                              SHE'S ONLY MY SISTER


My sister and I never seemed to get along. Though we shared a room, our conversations often turned to arguments or cold silence.

We never seemed to agree on anything---from the way we dressed to the people we picked as friends. But what could we do? After all, we had to share many things in our small house.

Neither of us thought that we were wrong---we each blamed our inability to get along on the other and put each other down instead of trying to find the cause of the problem.

We grew up and I eventually left for college. At college I found that I didn't know how to get along with people. I found myself getting into arguments often and being hurt easily.

I began to see that the problem was that I hadn't developed a strong relationship with the members of the family, and so I didn't have a lot of experience in getting along with others.I realized that I had never gotten along well with my sister because I never really knew her.

I thought of the times I'd borrowed something from my sister without asking her, or had broken something without even admitting that I had broken it. I thought of the times that I refused to share my things with her, and of the things I had said behind her back to make myself look better.

Watching different kinds of people at college, I grew to accept each one with his or her strengths and weaknesses and to appreciate each person's uniqueness. I grew to see that by accepting people as they were, they were able to accept me. And true friendships began to develop.

That was something that my sister and I had never developed---a true friendship. Because it takes brotherly love to develop a friendship, and that love overlooks mistakes. I began to wonder: "Who is my sister?What is she like?What did she think of me all those years?"

I didn't have long to wonder. After I graduated from college, she came to live with me. At first we were wary, not sure what each other was like and with the memory of our childhood in our minds.

But this time we wanted to share and give to one another. And we also found out that our tastes were not that different after all. Our difficulty had been in our unwillingness to work with one another.

I couldn't help but think that if I had only tried harder to give to and understand my sister, and if I had really cared about what she was thinking, we would have grown up as good friends.

How about you? Do you get along with your brothers and sisters? Do you share your ideas and interests with them? Do you help them when they need it? If not, it's not too late to develop a good friendship.

If you have a good friendship with your brothers and sisters, work to strengthen it.

Let each do what we can to strengthen the family relationships. Then no matter what, we'll have someone to turn to who cares about us, because we'll be part of a strong family.

A. COMPREHENSION

1. What was the two sister's childhood problem?

·                     The two sister's problem are there being self centered. They don’t share feelings and emotion to each other that cause a wall between them.

2. What was the elder sister's problem when she went to college?

·                     The elder sister problem is when she entered college she notice that she can’t easily get along with other people..

3. What did she discover to be the cause of her problem?

·                     She notice that it’s hard to interact to their people when you haven’t interact with your family first.

4. What made the two sisters get along well with each other?

·                     After college, the two sisters live together and this time they wanted to share and give to one another.

5. What is the basic so that one will be able to get along well with each other?

·                     Be open-minded and let yourself open to other people .If others don't know how to be friendly, show them how.

6. What are the possible consequences for an individual who has poor relationship with the members of his family?

·                     It will be hard to them to interact with different personalities .They may not develop camaraderie and may have difficulties in social practices.

7. Enumerate was on how you can get along well with your brothers and sisters.

·                     Ask and accept forgiveness.

·                     Be the source of their happiness and find ways on how to be able to bond and have fun with them.

·                     Make happy moments together with them as a foundation of your relationship with them.

B. VOCABULARY

Write the root or base form of each word in the list.

1.            Mistake - Take

2.            Strengthen - Strength

3.             Picked - Pick

4.            Difficulty - Difficult

5.            Argument - Argue

6.            Friendship - Friend

7.            Eventually - Event

8.            Weakness - Weak

9.            Getting - Get

10.          Relationship - Relation

11.          Inability - Ability

12.          Different -  Differ

13.          Friendship - Friend

C. STRUCTURE

Rewrite each sentence putting the underlined part at the end.

1. In college, I found that I didn't know how to get along with people.

·                     I found that I didn't know how to get along with people in college.

2. Watching different kinds of people in college, I grew to accept each one with his or her strengths and weaknesses.

·                     I grew to accept each one with his or her strengths and weaknesses watching different kinds of people in college.

3. After I graduated from college, she came to live with me.

·                     She came to live with me after I graduated from college.

4. If you have a good friendship with your brothers and sisters, works to strengthen it.

·                     It works to strengthen it if you have a good friendship with your brothers and sisters.

5. Though we stayed in one room, we found it hard to like each other.

·                     We found it hard to like each other though we stayed in one room.