A Letter to my Tutor

Dear Eun Hye,

Hello! How are you and Larry? I hope everything is fine with you guys.

Marcus and I are okay. We arrived in Shanghai on June 30th and we stayed in a hotel for three weeks. Now, we found an apartment in Pudong District and. The apartment is smaller than what we have in Changchun but it’s nicer.

I have to say, I like Shanghai more than Changchun. Shanghai is super hot and polluted but life is way easier here. Most of the people here are able to speak English and there are a lot of things to do here …unlike in Changchun.

About my German… my exam (in Austria) is scheduled on October 5th. I was advised to finish all three required books (A1/1, A1/2, and A2/1) before I take the exam. We only finished 2 books so I decided to continue learning German here in Shanghai.

A fews weeks ago I went to a university to enroll for the A2 course but because I don’t have official certificate showing I finished A1 course, the university needed to check if I am qualified to take A2 course so they gave me some exams. The results were excellent! This means, I don’t need to go through A1! Thanks for again for tutoring me.

In other news, I think Marcus’ boss needs to talk to Larry about a job. Well, I am not sure. I just heard them talking (in German) about this and because my German is not that good yet, I might be wrong. But if I am right… well, it would be great to have you and Larry here in Shanghai.

So, I’ll end my email here. Nice greetings to Larry. Write me back because I am dying to hear from you!

Best regards,
Vienna

Hard Sleeper

I went to the train ticket office yesterday to buy some tickets for our upcoming Beijing trip. I was meant to buy four roundtrip soft sleeper train tickets. The idea was Marcus, Daniel, Anne and I will be travelling together in one cabin. That would be fun.

Unfortunately, soft sleeper tickets are sold out so I don’t have any choice but to take the best from what was left and that would be top bunk hard sleeper tickets. I told the awful news to my travelling companions but they said that though they are not eager to sleep on 3-storey bunk beds in an open cabin with strangers, they think they can do it. So we’ll proceed with our tickets. Rescheduling or upgrading to plane tickets is not an option.

The European men assured us that it would be ok and that they are ok with it but I can bet my sexy ass that they will frown and complain more than Anne and I. When I learned that there are no more soft sleeper tickets available, I called them first to confirm if they want to go with hard sleeper tickets because I know that they won’t be comfortable sleeping in the same room with strangers. (I would like to add a lot of adjectives before the word stranger but I might be offending the most populous race so I won’t)

Well, good luck to us. When I am out of this country, I’ll probably say more but right now, I’ll stay quiet.