2015-01-02
【Aiden in English】
2014 has said goodbye and 2015 has arrived. One of the best ways to celebrate the achievement of surviving in one piece would be to invite some friends over.
Kids of the 21st century are seriously addicted to the videogames. All the friends I invited, as soon as they walked through the door, were right upstairs to the computer room. We played Minecraft, and I introduced my friends, Devin and Robbie, to a Parkour course I made. I personally never considered myself as an architect, and so I thought the little challenge that I made wasn’t very hard. Apparently I was very, very extremely wrong because one of my buds ragequitted at least 4 times in the first 6-7 jumps. Just saying I wasn’t doing much better, Mom got pizzas from Costco. By that time, two out of five guests had arrived. The pizza tasted good, and so was Robbie at Trivia Crack. He answered many questions, but had the worst luck. In the end, it all came down to luck because he got many hard questions that at one point, he randomly picked one. I, on the other hand, was getting very fortunate. So many easy questions in so little time.
After lunch, Mom had enough of us wasting our eyes and made us go outside. We played soccer, basketball, and football and also my neighbor Derek came over to play for a while, too. At the moment, the last guest Richard finally arrived. My team had a good start with a pick six, but the other kids came back with five straight TDs. After announcing the winner (and me being a sore loser), we all went back inside and watched a movie, Ice Age 2.
It’s rare to have friends come over. When the holiday season is ending, however, I want to keep having fun and stretching to holiday spirit.
【红霞译文】
2014年已与我们挥手道别，2015年如期而至。对于历经磨难的幸存者来说，其最佳庆祝方式就是组织朋友聚在一起同欢共乐。
21世纪的少年儿童往往沉迷于视频游戏而难以自拔，这次前来聚会的朋友一踏进我家大门，便径直朝楼上计算机屋奔去。大家玩起“我的世界”，由我先向德文和罗比介绍本人设计的“跑酷”轨迹。我从未把自己当成什么建筑师，因此并不觉得由本人亲自设计的游戏有多难玩，谁知我大错特错，因为其中一位朋友前后差不多试跳了六七次，至少四次惨遭失败，而我玩的也不尽人意。这时，妈妈从好市多买来比萨饼充作午饭，五位朋友中又有两位已陆续赶到。比萨饼味道不错；罗比手头上“破解冷知识”游戏玩得也挺起劲，虽然他回答的问题不少，但答对的却不多，而且直到结束始终无法扭转局面，只好瞎蒙一气。相形之下，我非常走运，没花多少功夫就给出了答案。
午饭后，妈妈担心我们视力受影响，号召大家全部到外面去玩。我们踢足球打篮球扔橄榄球，邻居德里克也跑来凑热闹。与此同时，最后一位客人凯杰终于露面。大家兵分两路较量美式足球，我队旗开得胜，先以拦截返回触地得分，但对手们不甘示弱，连续拿下五次达阵。结果趋于明朗以后（我输得很惨），大家进屋看起电影《冰河时代》第二集。
朋友之间的聚会实在难得，正因如此，即使节日趋于尾声，我要争取挽留美好时刻，让节日精神发扬光大。
