【英语口语】美语情景对话 第14期:童年生活 Big Apple Baby

Todd: OK. Hello!

Kevin: Hi! How you doing?

Todd: I’m doing pretty good.

Kevin: Good.

Todd: What’s your name?

Kevin: My name is Kevin.

Todd: Kevin. And where are you from?

Kevin: I’m from Pheonix, Arizona.

Todd: OK. Nice.

Kevin: In the United States.

Todd: Wow, were you born in Pheonix?

Kevin: Actually, no. I was actually born in New York, because my parents happened to be livingin New York at that time. My father was a Major League Baseball player, and the year I wasborn, 1971, he was playing with the Mets in New York City, and my birthday is in May, May 25th, to be precise, and so my mother happened to be with my father in New York cause it wasbaseball season, so I was actually born in New York, but I grew up in Pheonix. so Phoenix iswhat I consider to be my home town.

Todd: Wow! That’s Amazing! Do you remember anything about New York?

Kevin: Yes, actually, I do have a few memories because we spent probably three years therefrom the time I was born, obviously, until I was about two and a half or three years, we spentsummers, or the baseball season in, in New York, and we rented a condominium on the secondfloor, and I remember, it was right across the street from La Guardia Airport, and so of course, when I was a little kid, one, one and two years old, I used to love sitting by the kitchenwindows, and I even remember it was a bay window, the kind where you can roll the windowopen, and I used to roll the window open, and just watch the airplanes take off and land all day.

Todd: Wow! That’s cool.

Kevin: And another memory I have is the people, the couple that lived below us was an elderlycouple and they acted pretty much like our grandparents, so I actually called them Grandma andGrandpa, and, uh, Grandma Stevenson used to give me a bath in the, in her, in her kitchensink, cause I was so small, that she would actually give me a bath in her kitchen sink, and Iremember that as well.

Todd: Wow, those are good memories.