What activities do American teenagers do during their vacations.－－my 2nd email to pen pal Tia(1) First, I am very sorry for replying you so late. Hum......I have just graduated from Junior high school, and now I have plenty of free time. Yeah, being such far away from the families has already become one of the biggest problems in 21th century ————in my opinion, hahaha .Maybe that's not so serious but it's really to my surprise that it's not so cozy in American families, either. I thought the situation in your country is much better. hehe.During the ancient time Chinese people regarded family、 filial piety 、benevolent and love as the most important things (maybe you can refer to "confucianism") But now ,times is different, so the situation is different, haha, maybe one reason is the development of the internet, and another reason is the heavy pressure of young people, which comes from their busy work. Anyway at least in America, young people have rich and colourful social activities——in my impression. That's why I wonder what activities American teenagers do during their vacations. I heard many of my classmates say that they dreamed a lot before the senior high school entrance examination, such as crazing shopping with their bosom friends, an adventure to somewhere like a forest (after that examination), but when the time they dreamed comes, when they are truly "liberated" from the school, all what they dreamed don't come true at all without any reason, they just stayed at home watching TV, playing video games or just sleeping, and even themselves don't know why. Maybe that's because friends are hard to be gathered, everyone is tired; maybe that's because after spending several hours eating a lunch and watching a movie together, they had got nothing else to do or chat and became bored again. Anyway time is wasted senselessly, and they are muddleheaded during the time which can be probably called "after-exam" time.haha. The situation is better to me since my class can go in to the senior high school directly without that examination. We have just finished a small test which decides which class one will entrance. And then anything is over. Our junior high school life is totally over. So before the test, we are not as nervous and pressured as them, and after it, we are not as happy as them. Life still goes as normal. haha .