-= April 1985 =-

Today's topic at my Complementary Class was VAMPIRES. What is vampire? Do you remeber the bat flying from the hidden place and bite people's neck in movie? That's kind of vampire.

To introduce what is vampire and how to kill it, the teacher showed us a short movie called Darcula. You may hear that before. Although I doesn't belive there is vampire, but teacher also taught us how to kill them:

1. Burn the dead body.
2. Drive a wooden stroke through its heart.
3. (Man only) Chop off its head with a gravediggers shovel.

And the end of the course, teacher played a clip of National Geographic. This clip could be found here: http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=28007

Is that real? I consider not. I don't belive vampires and ghosts.

After my class I attended Joe's study advice. I was new here. We talked about English study, he suggested us to practise at www.listeningexpress.com

At the end, write a tongue twister:

She sells seashells on the seashore, the shells she sells are seasheels. So if she sells shells on the seashore, I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

That's all for today, have a nice sleep.

He, a British man, tought me the second private class. His voice was fast and at the first I even could not catch what he said. I have to tell him to repeat: I'm sorry and could you please repeating that?

But not all students weren't know what he said. A girl sat beside me, who brought a English novel, told me that is easy to know what he said. I did not lose my mind but listened carefully and tried to understand.

After a few moment, I was familar with his voice although I don't know some words. I tried my best. Finally I almost knew every thing he said. That's much better!

Complementary class was followed by private class, my teacher was an handsome American man. Todays' topic had been English in hard times, but we enjoyed talking about other things, so finally teacher changed his mind. To me, it's no matter what topic, I was listening and practising.

Here take some notes about what I learned today:

• Oh, my god. Thanks heavenas.
• handed it in
• carry away; who's taken it?
• tangible, intangible
• bolt of lightning
• shelter -- some place to hide from rain
• soaking wet -- really wet. Today is so hot that we are soaking wet.
• witness
• creak
• defiance, defy
• handout
• spouse -- wife or husband
• accuse -- eg. Maybe you have been accused of some crime?
• paralyze -- make powerless and unable to function
• bossy
• lousy -- very bad

It's sunny today and it is my first class at Meten. I wake up at 9 o'clock and had a launch at home with my family. After dinner, I went to school to fetch my student books.

I meat my SA at 3:00 PM, and she introduced the whole class and showed me how to book the courses. I took notes carefully but at the end I was still not very clear. That was not a big problem, just go and have a try.

ELLIS training software have four classes I needed to finish in one and half an hour, just because I must finished this to enter private class today. Time was so limited! I tried to follow the all instructions and comments, but it was hard to do so. So I have to skip some contents and focus on important material.

When I completed the lessones, it was twenty past six. I had to have a supper right now, I was too hungry that time.

I ate quickly and returned to Meteni at twenty to seven. Twenty minues were used to do oral test. SA gave me questions about the course I took, but I was sorry that I forget many detail about the dialog. I needed to review them after class.

Seven o'clock, which it's my private class time. Two girls and I were setting in a small classroom and my foreign teacher was Callum. We talked about phone courtesy, in another way, how to do polite phone call.

The lesson was focus on what to do is polite when making a call. I took note about mobile phone and landline, discussed about the time to make phone, listened to teacher's article on Living in Australia which is a short story about friendship.

I've learned the words: CV, curriculum, courtesy, curfew, landline, surf, sarcasm, sarcasitic, ironic, irony.

Difference between: over the 3 years, over 3 years.

Happy new year and merry christmas. We could also say Happy Christmas.

That's it, I learned a lot, but require further review on them. Have a nice sleep!