📙 Part 2: Describe an old friend you had lost touch with and got in contact with again.

This episode's vocabulary

Colleague (noun) - one of a group of people who work together.

Out of touch (idiom) - not informed or not having the same ideas as most people about something, so that you make mistakes.

Extraordinarily (adverb) - very; more than usual.

To engross (verb) - If something engrosses you, it is so interesting that you give it all your attention.

Get-together (noun) - an informal meeting or social occasion, often arranged for a particular purpose.

To catch up on something (phrasal verb) - to do something that you have not been able to do recently.

To reconnect (verb) - to join or be joined with something else again after becoming separated.

To lose track (idiom) - to not know any longer where someone or something is, or to not be able to remember something.

Safety net (noun) - a net put below people performing at a great height to catch them if they fall.

To keep in touch (idiom) - to continue to talk to or write to someone.

Questions and Answers

R: Well, until recently, I hadn't heard from my friend Lisa in a while. She's a former colleague turned friend who I knew from when I was a teacher in Russia. Actually, we started off as friends of a common friend who asked her to deliver a box of cigars to my office one day, which is a very odd way to be introduced, but that's how it happened, and probably that's a story for another time. I wouldn't say that we'd fallen out of touch exactly. We'd just been extraordinarily busy of late and got a bit overly engrossed in our work. It happens from time to time, since I have several jobs, and I need to invest a lot of time and making sure that I do well in each one. And from what I gather, her workload isn't exactly light either. Anyway, regardless of why, we hadn't spoken in quite some time, and when I was speaking with our old mutual friend Lena, she suggested we have a get-together on Zoom. That was easy enough to sort out, surprisingly enough. We just made a group chat and exchanged schedules, and it came together easily enough. So that was quite nice. And it was also very nice to hear from her again and catch up on how things were going in our lives, along with all of our plans for the near future, because it's going to be Christmas soon. So we were gonna do some different things together, and it's good to reconnect. Well, at least it was, it was good to reconnect over all the things we had in common. Even something silly as sharing memes. They also made sure to set up a regular meeting every month. So hopefully we won't lose track of things like that again. But if we do, at least there's a safety net in place, because we still have our mutual friend who keeps in touch with the pair of us, and maybe even a double one, since we have that and we also have this regular meeting scheduled as well.

M: Hey, Rory, thank you very much for your story!

R: That's okay!