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Sit With Us

You’re at your new school. It’s lunch time, but you don’t have anyone to sit with. You want to join someone at their table, ______ you’re not sure if they’re friendly. What do you do? Natalie’s ______ of solving the problem was to create an app. She knows what it feels like to be alone at a new school. She found it difficult to make new friends and had to ______ a new table at lunch every day. If she sat ______, she felt lonely. But if she asked to join someone and was ______, she felt embarrassed. She created a lunch-planning app to help students like ______ find people to have lunch with.

The app — called Sit With Us — is ______. If a student is having lunch in the afternoon, he or she can create an invitation. Other students can open the app and ______ that invitation. They can then use the app to decide when and where to ______. This allows students to make ______ online instead of face-to-face. This is the reason why it works so ______: it lowers the risk of being refused, and the embarrassment that goes along with it.

Natalie is ______ to see that people are replying to her app actively — especially those who suffer from bullying (遭受欺凌). Soon after she made her app available to the public, she won a prize for it. She ______ appeared in many news stories.

Natalie was even asked to speak at a university. In her ______, Natalie wanted people to know that you don’t have to do something ______ to change lives. Sometimes, a simple thing — like having a friend to enjoy lunch with — can make all the difference.