IN: so far , everything listed online has astronmical prices ! eek!last friday , i hung out with jason and we went to lunch and ran about the city . it was nice to get to hang out with him , since that rarely happend when we were always working .
Why is the narrator happy to have met with Jason ?

OUT: The narrator was happy to catch up .

IN: You could hear crickets and frogs chirping from the deck as you were going up the delta . There was this HUGE lighting and rain storm the last night and I played this silly bean bag game with some of these guys from Arizona State until 2 in the morning . Got off the boat decently early on Tuesday and decided to see what was cool in New Orleans ( not really knowing much about the town at all ) . We coerced a taxi driver to take us around town . Now , either his Cajun accent was REALLY strong or that guy was n't speaking English ( I go with the former ) but we did have some communication issues .
What may be the reason for communication being a problem for them ?

OUT: They need the taxi drive to understand where they need to go .

IN: The crying . The despair of hearing that your family was in a car crash and they could n't give us any information besides where my father and step - mother were . Because they did n't know where Elijah was . And I guess they just did n't want to tell us that Jacob was dead .
What might the person be feeling at this moment ?

OUT:
They might be feeling distraught