In this English lesson I wanted to help you
learn the English phrase, open up or open up a bit.
When you get to know someone,
you start to share things about your life.
You start to open up a bit.
Sometimes you meet someone and you're not their friend yet
but you slowly start to spend time together.
And eventually you become friends
because eventually you'll start to open up a bit
when you're talking to each other.
You'll talk about your families and your feelings
and what's going good in life and what isn't going good.
You'll just open up a bit and start to share.
This often happens when people start dating each other.
At first, they're more reserved
and they don't talk about their personal life too much,
but eventually they open up a bit and they start to talk
about other things that are happening in their life
that normally they would've kept private
unless they're talking to someone that they trust.
When you talk to someone you trust
it's easy to open up a bit.
The other phrase I wanted to teach you today is
to keep things to yourself.
This is the opposite of open up a bit.
When you keep things to yourself,
it means you're a very private person.
It means when you talk to other people,
you don't talk about everything in your life.
Maybe you talk about simple things,
but you don't talk about how you're feeling.
You don't talk about the fact
that you had a bad day at work.
Instead of opening up a bit,
you tend to keep things to yourself.
I usually keep things to myself
when I first meet someone,
especially someone who I don't know very well at all.
Well, because I just met them.
I'm not making sense there, am I?
Let me rephrase.
When someone new starts at work, I tend to keep things
to myself for a while before I open up a bit,
because I like to get to know someone
before I talk about other things
besides just work or the weather.
Anyways, to review,
when you open up or when you open up a bit
it means you start to talk about more things
because you're comfortable talking to that person.
And when you keep things to yourself
it means you're just a little more private.
You're a private person
and you don't want to talk about everything.
But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.
This comment is from Mahdi.
Hi Mahdi.
Hello Bob.
Wow, the flowers are blossoming nicely.
I think Jen has a lot
of hard work to do in the upcoming few days.
And my response, yes, for sure.
The last few weeks is when we harvest like mad
and sell like crazy.
We're always hoping too that frost doesn't happen.
We don't like to lose some of the crop near the end.
So yes, because I live in Canada and because we have winter
and we have fall, there is a possibility
that the weather will turn early in the fall.
Right now it's actually September 12th today.
I'm making this video a little bit early.
And it's 31 degrees that is abnormal for this time of year.
Normally around this time of year
it's about 20, 25 degrees at the most.
So that's a little warm and we're happy about that.
That will just keep things growing nicely.
What we're worried about is frost.
We don't want it to go below zero or down to zero at night.
Thankfully the nights are still quite warm in this area.
But towards the end
of September and the beginning of October,
we start to get a little bit stressed
and we start to get a little bit worried.
Because if it goes to -1 or if it goes to -2,
some of our flowers don't like that.
Some of our flowers are fine, but some of them will die
if it gets that cold.
And it's no fun having things die right at the end
of the season.
All of these flowers need to be harvested.
Well, not all of them, just the ones that look good,
the ones that are in their prime.
They all need to be harvested over the next few weeks.
And once that's done, we can sell them like crazy.
So we're gonna harvest like mad and sell them like crazy.
Anyways, thanks for watching this little English lesson.
I'll be back with another one in a few days.
Bye.