F2F Class Notes (Nicholas)(S/R)

Review especially your vocabulary and speaking – and if you have time you can write something using the vocabulary below: maybe answer the question: “Do we place too much importance on money in our world.”

Vocabulary

maneuvers / a move to accomplish something usually like in military or some game / these moves are tactical or strategic or well thought out / formal word

e.g. Sooyoons car was heading for my car, so I made a quick maneuver to avoid her.

reignited / ignite again / to set on fire

e.g. He reignited the paper pile with a match.

e.g. He reignited an old argument with his girlfriend.

initiated / to start

e.g. Sooyoon initiated the interview process by applying to jobs.

“the rat race” / this is a way of describing life as a race among rats and we are all just hustling for basically no reason – need more money, bigger house

golden handcuffs / lots of money but it ties up your life – the job becomes something impossible to walk away from

to quote / to repeat something that someone said word for word / we put their “quotes” in “quotations”.

e.g. That’s not what I said! Yes it is–I am quoting you word-for-word.

e.g. Can I quote you for my article?

to flee / fled / to run away from 

refugee / flees their country to look for a safe country

refuge / safety or safe place

eloquent / a beautiful speaker

e.g. He was very eloquent – he spoke well and had great vocabulary and articulated his words beautifully.

e.g. Usually we think of Presidents and politicians as being eloquent.

No I dont want to be a famous person because im the type of person who likes keeping a low profile and sometimes I just want to be invisible sometime and have has my own space and my own personal time – so I think being famous would makes only make/create some troubles problems for me, of course it would bring some wellness  benefits and maybe even make my life a little better life maybe but still personally I care more about my mental wellness and my inner peace more than wellness in finance/financial wellness/financial peace of mind.

I just want to be comfortable – I don’t want to be richer im not obsessed with money but I know its difficult to say – “what is the standard of being comfortable/what defines a “comfortable” standard – im very satisfied with my current life though –

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/wikileakss-julian-assange-evicted-from-ecuador-embassy-in-london/2019/04/11/1bd87b58-8f5f-11e8-ae59-01880eac5f1d_story.html?utm_term=.3c353157a3a0

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was expelled from the Ecuadoran Embassy here Thursday and arrested on a U.S. hacking charge — maneuvers that initiated a potentially years-long legal battle over his extradition and reignited debates about press freedom.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/the-internet-was-obsessed-with-this-philosophy-quoting-homeless-man-in-china-now-hes-fled-the-fame/2019/04/01/519e43e2-5220-11e9-bdb7-44f948cc0605_story.html?utm_term=.0c18e4f3d464

The “Vagrant Master” has been offline for more than a week.

The last time people saw him, the scrawny 52-year-old known
as Shen Wei was being escorted into a white Mercedes-Benz by a middle-aged man in an orange jacket.

When asked where he was going, Shen replied, “To seek refuge.”

But even before he could get into the car, a man in his 20s ran up to ask for an autograph. Shen turned to sign the fan’s notebook.

China’s latest Internet sensation isn’t a wildcat locked in a staring contest with her zookeeper, a wealthy businessman caressing his thousand-dollar pet ducks or a children’s choir dedicating a whole song to tech giant Huawei.

He is a vagabond who doesn’t have a social media account and doesn’t own a smartphone. He defied stereotypes: Shen is educated and eloquent, and he provides for himself. He is dubbed the Vagrant Master or Master Shen on the Chinese Internet, and his every word has been recorded by live-streamers, shared across social media in the form of 15-to-30-second videos and closely watched and analyzed by millions.

After three months of stardom, he’d had enough.

“I blame no one, but I hate the Internet,” Shen told Chinese newspapers on March 22, at the height of his fame. “The Internet has brought me nothing but trouble.”