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Stacey Marrie Symons is a pretty fat girl who lived in Adelaide, South Australia. She is studying Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia in Universitas Sanata Dharma. She has been here for about 6 weeks. She has studied Bahasa Indonesia before and she decided to continue studying it in Indonesia. She has been to Bali, Lombok, and Surabaya.
Stacey means the formly established, smiling and energetic, a radiant disposition and dazzling smile, cheerful, happy, and bubbly. This name is from Latin. There is an interesting story about the name “Stacey”. When her mother was pregnant, she saw a pretty blonde girl playing in a garden. She payed attention so much in her. She heard that the girl was called by her mother. “Stacey, Stacey!” That is the name of the blonde girl. And finally, she was given a name Stacey. Symons is an Irish name. Stacey’s ancestors are from Irish who came to Australia in 1874.
According to Stacey, when we are trying to make a friend and start the conversation with someone we don’t know, we shouldn’t ask impolite questions. For instance, in Australia, it is impolite to ask about the age of someone older or younger than us. But it is fine to ask the children. Besides, it is impolite to ask about the price of something. For example, someone has a lovely new handphone and then I ask, “What a lovely hadphone it is! How much does it cost?”
In approaching someone, we should ask polite questions. For example, we are in a station waiting for the train, we are just alone and we want to make a friend with someone sitting next to us, we can start the conversation with asking about the weather (“It is going to rain, I think”), the time (“What time is it now?”), the next train (“When is the next train?”), the thing they are doing (he/she is reading a book, we can say, “It seems that you are reading an interesting book. What is it about?”). The most important thing to remember is that we always have to say, “Excuse me!” in approaching people.