Stephen+Gould



Stephen Gould Melbourne (not sure which hospital) 1 brother Drew Someone who enjoys your company while you enjoy their's. Someone who will not desert you when you need help. I use Facebook, Twitter & MSN. Around 100 I'm not as good friends with them as other friends. 4 (including me)
 * What is your name?**
 * Where were you born?**
 * How many brothers or sisters do you have?**
 * What are their names?**
 * How do you define a friend?**
 * What does it mean to be a real friend?**
 * Do you use social networking? Which?**
 * How many friends do you have on a social networking site?**
 * What is the difference between these friends and others?**
 * How many people are in your family?**

//__**Friend Definitions:**__// A friendly person who you can trust and have fun with.  __**BAD FRIEND:**__ Someone who isn't friendly and who you don't trust and can't have fun with.
 * __GOOD FRIEND:__ ** 

  Would you rather spend a weekend with your friends or your family? Choosing if I was going to spend a weekend with my friends or family might sound like a tough decision at first, but for me, it seems like quite an easy one. The only question I would need to ask myself to decide it, is 'Who would I have a better time with?' From personal experience alone, I could easily say my friends and I would have a better time. We'd be doing things that we wanted to rather then things our parents dragged us along to.

My friends and I would probably do things that we find a bit more fun compared to what my parents would want to do, but I also think there is a different mood created with friends. It's a bit more of a relaxed environment then it would be with my parents. I'm not sure if this is just the way I feel, but I feel a bit more at home with my friends. Like there's more room for jokes and being myself.

I think one of the most ideal parts about being with my friends is that there are no parents to tell us what to do or when to go to bed. We would have a bit more freedom to enjoy ourselves, which in my opinion, makes the whole weekend a lot better. Although, the main disadvantage of having no adults there would be that there is no one to take us anywhere we wanted to go. This, of course, would probably result in us not doing much at all. However, I'm sure that if we wanted to do something enough, we would find a way to get ourselves there.

From another aspect, I think it would be good for me and other people to prove our independence by having a weekend by ourselves. Obviously, we would probably be a bit young to have a whole weekend by ourselves, but at least a day would be okay. And at this age, lots of kids want to prove their independence, so there wouldn't be many arguments from me and my friends.

Even though asking myself who I'd want to spend a weekend with, either my friends or family, wouldn't take much time, I still wouldn't complain about going with my parents. There would be several reasons why I'd choose to go with my family, but the positives for taking my friends outweigh those for taking my family.