【英语时差8,16】学生怎样理财-3（在线收听）

 We’ve just heard some students talking about their budget. But we will also hear from a parent sharing her views on supporting her children through university. It’s like putting your children through private school and you cannot expect them to do it without help. So the arrangement that we came to was that first of all we paid the fees for them; secondly we paid their hall fees; and thirdly we gave them an allowance. In her case, Carmel and her husband provided full support for their three children. They came to this arrangement. Well, the first one did excellently but then she was a very determined person and when she decides she is going to do something she does it. She decided first of all she was going to get a first, which she did, and secondly she was not going to have any debts. She put the money in a high interest account, and when she came out she took the money and travelled around the world, and she came out with no debts at all. But she did live on Marmite sandwiches almost for three years. The second one didn't fare quite so well, mainly because I think he is quite a generous spirited soul and he likes to be the life and soul of the party, and being the life and soul of the party actually involves spending money and being full of bonhomie and going out and enjoying it.